To think dad should have stopped babies touching handrails on the tube and then sticking their hands in their mouth after?

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Just that really? Saw a man holding his baby walking round the tube and letting the baby grab the rails etc and then just watching the child lick their hands after??

As a lifelong tube commuter I have seen people (blokes) scratching their arses or picking their noses and then casually grabbing the handrails.... to think a baby will be licking their hands after touching it horrifies me!

Would it be reasonable to have said something to the man?

I feel it's fine to watch and quietly shudder but not fine to say anything. This is what babies do!

Yeah ok ......
I'm sure the Dad would have been so grateful for your amazing advice 🙄
It's a baby. It's what they do. Gross - but everything they touch in a public place will be gross.

It would be pointless to say anything, everyone knows they are filthy he is either making a conscious choice to 'buildup' baby's immune system, or is an incompetent arse who would have just given you a mouthful.

When dd was a baby, I remember watching the mum in front of me carefully sanitise the shopping trolley (well before covid years) while dd merrily licked the handle. She has an immune system of steel, it's so natural for babies.

My DC love to grab the handrail. You're being ridiculous.

It would have been totally unreasonable to speak to him about it, yes. Absolutely none of your business.

Do you think you are telling him something he didn't know? Infinite wisdom and all that?

I'm pretty sure I let mine touch the handrails. I might have occasionally wiped their hands with a wet wipe. None of them got ill much at all when younger.

Babies like to put things in their mouths.

Most try eating soil, leaves, etc when they are outside.

I couldn't get worked up about licking a handrail.

That really won't be the most germ ridden, disgusting thing baby has, or will touch

Maybe it might have been reasonable , but him telling you to mind your own business would have been reasonable too .

Just REALLY - nothing else in your own life to worry about?

Mine used to drag his tongue along the escalator handrail!

It is a bit gross to think about what germs might be there but babies need to be exposed to bacteria and allergens to build up their immune responses. Shielding them from everything makes them more prone to illness and disease in the long run. And the older they are generally the more extreme the body's response. Better they encounter it when they're smaller (for the most part).

It is probably a very good thing in terms of immunity.

You got so get up by a total stranger getting on with totally normal family life that you wrote this? Totally ridiculous.

Hahahahaha.... just try and stop a child from licking the world around them.

I swear every single damn stone in our drive ended up in DS's mouth at some point. I was more terrified he would choke than the germs, tbh.

Children are grim.....

My son once put his finger in a drop of wee from the previous person on the loo seat and locked it before I could stop him

He has a mighty fine immune system 10 years later.

And what about all the people hacking their guts up, sniffing etc? Tubes are revolting, you just have to get over it.

Why? I took my baby everywhere and their hands were everywhere that's life

My daughter tried to eat carpet when she was a baby...

I think you should get back in your box.

No! Leave him alone!

Come on, we've all eaten all sorts of rubbish as kids! This is how we build up our immune systems and it's completely normal (not to mention fun for the baby!).

YABU. Why on earth would you tell someone how to parent? To appease your own germophobia?
Edited: The title made it seem like he had multiple babies at the time but the post implied one. Make up your mind.

DS used to like licking the poles in the bus. He didn't really do that any where else. Just the bus. Kids are weird, and gross and a bit of extra exposure to some germs isn't generally am issue.

I'd have laughed at you OP if you'd said anything to me.