To not sterilise/ wash my baby's toys

[MissTwister]

Frankly I never knew until today that this was a thing! She is 4 months old and puts everything in her mouth but I don't sterilise or wash them regularly. How do you even sterilise soft toys!!

Thank goodness it's not just me - some friends were going on about sterilising toys with Milton and I said nothing at the time, but haven't sterilised any toys I've given to DD!

Oh and the dishwasher sterilises her spoons/bowls etc

Occasionally I fill the bath with a few squirts of bleach and throw all the manky plastic stuff in.

Easy enough.

I don't sterilise toys. At most give them a wipe if visibly dirty. Children's immunity is practically cast iron.

I don't. I did have a big go at manky bath toys recently, but they are DD1's and too manky to give the baby. DD2 is 9 months and, more than any toy in the world, she likes to chew shoes. It isn't too much of a problem as she isn't crawling yet. Though she can do that mysterious 'how did you get there' moving. Crocs are her favourite. Clearly I won't be disinfecting all of our shoes, but I may have to do something once she can crawl. Any ideas what?

I washed all the second-hand soft toys, but otherwise only wash the bear that she sleeps with, or ones that have visible grot on them. Touch wood, we've only had two puking incidents in two years so far, and one was a bug she caught from her cousins.

I give any second hand toys I buy a quick wipe over. Otherwise I only clean if it's noticeably grubby, had food spilt over it, or been sicked on or pooed on in the case of one unfortunate favourite teddy earlier this year.

How do they acquire an immune system if we sterilise everything? Bollocks I say!

Do people sterilize toys?

Baffled.

Never did this.
Am pleased, really, as it would all have seemed a monumental waste of time when I found dd half way through eating a wood louse, one day.
She survived. (can't say the same for the wood louse).

To my shame, my laundry basket is a graveyard for toys which have got poo or sick on them and need machine-washing inside a pillowcase. They never get done. I think DS has forgotten poor Freddy the Firefly exists.
I do give Sophie an occasional wipe over with Milton, but that's it.
Who sterilises spoons!?

LB062 "Um, no. Given that DD sometimes appears eating toast when I know full well there hasn't been any bread in the house for over 24 hours, I think it may have been a little futile if I'd started."

This exact situation happened to me yesterday. Today I hoovered under the sofa.

LB0CS2 even

Nope, I never sterilised toys. I did stick the plastic link things through the dishwasher when they looked a bit mark. Think I had some sterilising wipes for Sophie la giraffe, but gave up bothering pretty quickly.

I take your toast and raise you a cheerio... Put my foot in my boot but there was something in there. Tipped it out to see a manky cheerio that had obviously had milk on and then dried out again fall onto the floor. In the seconds it took me to put my shoe back on DD ran over, grabbed the cheerio, popped it in her mouth and shot me a massive grin like it was the best thing that had happened to her all day I was still standing on one leg so couldn't grab it off her. Toddlers are gross!

I did sterilise toys...

I kinda liked doing it

I agree there's no point though in hindsight

I wiped my kids' stuff with a Clorox wipe once a month or so, the bigger plastic stuff, the smaller plastic toys I ran through the dishwasher.

Stuffed animals I ran through the washing machine; they'd start to smell funky from being drooled on all the time.

God no, I don't have the time for a start.

I might from time to time put the toys which are in popular use in the washing machine but other than that toys don't get sterilised.

I've always washed DS's Bear because he sucked his hat when he was little and it got black. Now he gets dragged everywhere! I didn't wash or sterilise anything else, ebf and the health visitor said that weaning things didn't need to be sterilised.

I don't bother because of the things she puts in her mouth, the toys are the least of it. How could I keep her paws sterile, for example?! They're never out of her mouth!

ok so you all don't wash the toys in your own house but how do you feel about toys in shared public play spaces and nurseries? Do you think the workers there shd be washing toys and play equipment?

I run a play group (on a voluntary basis) and we give the plastic toys a wipe every few weeks, if we remember.

I didn't know anybody did!

I washed all our second-hand plastic tat in Dettol before DD was born, and I'll wash anything that's been sucked on by visiting children I know to have just recovered from D and V.

Oh, and I occasionally wash the plastic bug-on-a-stick attachment on DD's Jumperoo because every time she goes in it she soaks its fabric wings with milky spit and it gets gross.

There's been no actual sterilising at all.

Nope, never did, and all three DC survived to tell the tale. In fact I would be quite concerned about being unduly anal about this, because the children would have had no immunity on encountering the big wide world of germs at nursery and school.