Washing hands after nappy change - MIL thread, sorry

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My PIL are staying with us at the moment to look after DS, after I have had an operation. I appreciate is is very generous and lovely of them, and I am grateful.

However, MIL isn't washing her hands after pooey nappy changes. AIBU to be bothered by this? How can I get her to do this without basically implying she's being disgusting? We do have hand sanitizer at the nappy change station, but I found she as using that BEFORE she changed his nappy instead of after! DS is 8 months old, just for info, and my operation means I can't lift or carry him, or bend over/ kneel down, so I can't do it myself at the moment.

Well it actially takes longer than 20seconds to wash and dry your hand properly

you can't prevent all germs, there is no way for anyone to live in a sterile environment.

Of course you can't but the ones you transmit by walking around with shit on your hands are more likely to be harmful to vulnerable people.

Really, ten seconds scrubbing your hands with soap, five seconds rinsing it off, and five seconds quickly wiping them on a towel?

I used to work in a cafe in a well-known British supermarket...

I never washed my hands once!

They paid us pennies, yet the customers expected to be treated like fucking royalty.

Sunsoo, So you deliberately spread germs to the customers, because your employers weren't paying you enough?

Charming! What if some of those customers had underlying conditions and became very seriously ill because of your behaviour?

there are family pets which wear nappies?

My little chihuahua actually wore newborn nappies. He was disabled and only weighed 2 pounds so I had to wrap a newborn nappy around him twice as he couldn't go outside to pee. We got him put to sleep in the end as we felt it was kinder.

I haven't changed a babies nappy for a long time, but my I changed my chihuahua's nappy at least 5 times a day.

God, how people laughed when they came in and saw him.

You sound like a disgusting human being Sunsoo.

It's all right everyone

What go's around, comes around.

I bet the people on here who don't wash hands have air fresheners, spray polish a go go and have pointlessly chemical stinking houses, with clothes worn once thrown in the washing machine with fabric conditioner. People like that have demented priorities.

Wrong.

No air freshers, or spray polish. I wash clothes when they are dirty of smelly and I don't use fabric conditioner.

I notice she hasn't been back to defend herself. I hope she now realises what a stupid, selfish, moronic thing she did.

Yer...but she made her point...to herself...

I admitted early on I didn't wash after a dirty nappy but always wash after going to the loo myself or before cooking anything. I suppose it's because in my PND addled mind with my first daughter I didn't want to leave her on the changing unit to go wash my hands. Whereas with cooking and going to the loo myself there's a sink in the room I'm in.

Some of the people in this thread seem to be overreacting a little I think though. I'm certain we all do things that might make others think eww but I'm certain I wouldn't bandy the word vile around.

This was years ago when I was a liberal student. I do wash my hands nowadays.

If I made any innocent person sick, then I am truly sorry, that was not my intention at the time. We didn't have time to wash our hands and I wanted us to fail our H&S assessment.

If anyone is interested in what a 'stupid, moronic' person I was, I am now a university lecturer (no joke).

You can be stupid and moronic and have a PhD. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Oooo a stupid moronic lecturer then.

Glad to hear you wash your hands now.
Hope you don't live in the NorthWest

I'll never be able to eat outside of my own home again.....

Me neither. This is grim.

For those who wash their hands afterwards do you literally not touch your baby until after you've washed your hands? You never move them from wherever they're getting changed to somewhere safer (like a cot) and thus getting the germs you're going to wash off your hands, onto them? And re infecting yourself with said germs next time you pick them up? Do you clinically go through to the bathroom with your hands held up not touching anything?

Yes. I use my feet to open the door handles as well (hmm)