Don't you just stick it in your gob and suck it or AIBU?

[Libitina]

I've just seen a competition down the side of the page on here for a 'Portable Soother Steriliser'. Unless your baby is immunocompromised, don't most parents just give a dropped dummy a quick suck to remove any grit and then hand it back to their DC?

baby's mouth

Yabu that it's about dummies

Give it to a dog to lick. Their saliva is said to be sterile.

With my eldest I would get him a new dummy every time, which over time did evolve to just sooking it.

With my youngest it was straight to sucking the fluff off!

Binker - and their bums?!

I always had a dozen on the go - spare ones in the car, change bags, handbags, pockets, etc

We sterilised all of them every evening.

There are so many things we overdid. I am now wiser but also wise enough not to have a 2nd so I am a fountain of learned wisdom that's destined to never be used.

And i thought this would be a different thread

Well we know where some of your minds reside (I thought the same)

Id never have used a baby wipe as I don't like the idea of them sucking whatever crap they put in wipes.

My germs were much more preferable.

I expect most parents do it at one time or another but it is pretty grim to watch!

Bit like sniffing their bum to find out if they've done a poo. Revolting but we've all done it!

My health visitor warned me not to do this (I hadn't actually asked her or considered it, btw).

WHAT? Revolting.
But then, dummies are revolting.

Dummies are not revolting

Get off your high horse. They are an essential tool needed for some babies.

Arf

Which bit are you grating? The image of a random woman's fanjo or the part where she's bent like a dog frantically licking it?

DP used to just suck it. I was too squeemish, I'd always have a tub with five or six dummies in wherever we went!

I dunno. I mean there's nothing in my house I look at when it's dropped on the floor and think, 'Oh that's dirty. Do you know what'd make that clean enough to use again? A swill around in my saliva.' Absolutely nothing.

I can't ever imagine having my MIL around for dinner, dropping her fork on the floor, and as I pick it up, giving it a good lick, cos that makes it cleaner. And if I wouldn't do that to my MIL, why would I do it to my kids, who I actually like?

I've 3 kids who all loved their soothers. I have spent years carting cleaned and sterilised soothers around, and if I had #4, would do the same. We even had a little microwave steriliser for soothers - it was great. Licking dodies and giving them to kids is just ick.

I've never used dummies for my 5DC but did see an dummy invented where if it was dropped it had a case closed round it before it hit the ground? Sounds like a good idea.

www.amazon.co.uk/Razbaby-Self-Closing-Pacifier-Blue/dp/B000MKKSIM

Neither of mine had dummies so never had this problem... Thank goodness!

Bit like sniffing their bum to find out if they've done a poo. Revolting but we've all done it!

Yep, definitely done that. Makes sense at baby group etc as it could be any of a dozen babies.