I have a tendency to be over anxious around germs and contamination/ illness, so I need some perspective here.
When I take my 1 year old swimming (private classes that we pay for each month), one of the activities the instructor has us doing is to put some water in our mouths and "spurt" it out so that baby can see you doing it. The theory is that they will mimic you and therefore it's supposed to teach them to spit water back out and not swallow it if they get it in their mouths.
Anyway... I feel really grossed out by this. There's 4-5 other parents and babies in the class at the same time and the pool isn't huge, and we are standing in relatively close proximity to each other when this is happening. All I can think is, am I putting water into my mouth that's now mixed with other parents' saliva?
Honestly it really makes me feel unwell and I'm at the point of saying to the instructor can I sit this one out please?
But I don't want to look odd by saying that. And my baby has also started to sort of mimic me and blow raspberries back at me when she watches me doing it, which suggests she's learning from it, so if it's beneficial I don't want to just stop doing it.
Anyway... am I anxiously overthinking how gross this is? Or is it genuinely gross? 😩