Aibu or is this really, really disgusting?

[Mrsknackered]

Chewing up food and then transferring it into your baby's mouth.
Or sipping a drink and then putting that in baby's mouth.

It's not just the germs that gross me out but the actual action of it.

Aibu?

If it was that dangerous then there would be fewer people in the world, given that it used to be a widespread practice.

To an extent, some people are now too obsessed with 'hygiene' and therefore stuffing up their DCs' immune systems...

But apparently his dad used to do what you describe. Grim

A lot of adults smoked back in the day, so that would have given the food a bit of 'added' flavour.
Lovely

Lets face it, this practice it's right up there with spitting on hankies and slathering it round your kid's face to give them a good 'wash'.
They were normal practices at the time,, but we've moved on from then.
Chewing their food and spitting on them isn't necessary in a civilized society. not.

Ranky McRank.

Take it this is someone who admits to alternative parenting techniques in a slightly breathless tone?

It’s common in developing countries and used to be here too not so long ago. Fewer intolerances and allergies back then.

Define not so long ago, Roo?

My kids did this the other day, 4 yr old chewed some meat and gave it to the 2 yr old, she ate it. It was already in her mouth before I realised what what was happening. I did tell them to just ask us to cut it up for them next time. But it won't really do them any harm either way.

No idea why or how they thought of it as they haven't seen us do it.

I used to chew my baby's food for her. So what?

But why though anony just why????

Who TF does that? urgggh.

because I was busy feeding Baby 1 and it's much easier and more efficient than a blender. Really not a big issue!

This is still the norm in a number of cultures in the world and was definitely the norm here in the past, before blenders and baby foods and the like. And wiki even says "although the health benefits of premastication are still being actively studied, the practice appears to confer certain nutritional and immunological benefits to the infant,[4] provided that the caretaker is in good health and not infected by pathogens".

I am riddled with pathogens

I would bite my babies food into chunks for him (apples, biting grapes in half etc). Always seemed fairly instinctual to me. Plus the health benefits are good - if you're not ill germs are nothing to be scared off. They help build a good immune system in a baby.

My sister used top fop this with sweets for me apparently. But I probably was too young for them and her too young to know better.

Now I might bite bits off to give to him bit def not masticate it first

YANBU-and completely unecessary-use a dned fork!

As long as there’s no obvious oral infection or cold sore it’s fine. The stomach contains strong acid which kills off harmful pathogens the kind which might be found in an average mouth. Animals do it, they have to otherwise their offspring would choke. We’re just another type of animal.

Bit ones with cutlery and blenders Barrow

I have to say, despite having lived in a third world country, where chewing a toddler's food didn't fill me with horror, what made me dry heave was my mother-in-law putting her tongue into DD's meal to see if it was too hot. Bleurgh

Lions and tigers don’t have access to cutlery and blenders though same goes for lots of cultures throughout the world.

It's only considered gross because we've developed into a society that has a huge number of squeamish and germ phobic people in it who say "eww" before doing any analytical thinking whatsoever.

Germs build up the immune system and are necessary for healthy development.

It's only considered gross because we've developed into a society that has a huge number of squeamish and germ phobic people in it who say "eww" before doing any analytical thinking whatsoever.

This.

And this:

And yet, there are other interesting things many women are quite happy to have in their mouths.

Germs build up the immune system and are necessary for healthy development.

And this.