to not be too bothered about this?

[boundarybabe]

MIL looked after DS the other day - he is nearly 8 months. While they were at a restaurant DS had a bit of an 'episode' and they gave him his dummy, but he dropped it and the only thing she could find to rinse it in was coke . Now, I can well understand when a baby explodes in public you don't always think before you act and I suspect it was a bit of an 'oh shit, do something' moment, and I'm quite prepared to let this go as a) I think MIL feels guilty (which was why she 'fessed up immediately), and b) she doesn't look after him often enough for this sort of thing to ever be an issue. Obviously I'd rather it hadn't happened but as a one off I don't think it's going to hurt him.

But, at my baby group today I happened to mention it and some of the reactions made me think I'm wrong to not raise it with her. She loves DS to bits and would never intentionally hurt him. WWYD?

I might boast a bit more about MIL then Cat64! She took me shopping yesterday for my birthday while FIL looked after DS and gave me £50 to spend. And bought me lunch . Bless her, I reckon she makes up for a lot of the horrid MILs we hear about on here.

Yanbu. I have very much the same relaxed attitude to things like this.

Am done being smug now and off to bed ladies.

Oh goodness me, it was a one off done in a panic. It's not like you are feeding her cola all day. Some people really do over-react. Ignore the over-reactions.

I think I'd probably get a transfer tattoo, put it on your child's arm and try to pass it off as a real one.
Some people are far too precious about things. My dd is 8.5 and loathes coke. She pretends to heave if she sees a bottle, I put this down to her cousin once giving her a mouthful when she was about 9 months old. I think the bubbles took her by surprise.