Do you wash your baby's hands before meals?

[ChateauMargot]

Baby is 11 months; 'wash' here means with soap and warm water. Just wondering what the norm is!

No, too lazy! Sometimes gets a quick wipe over with a baby wipe though.

Once she was crawling, yes.

Ok, that's one-all! Any others?..

we try to. we've done it 3 times in the last week.

No - not unless they look obviously dirty or have been playing in the mud. DC are 3.5yrs and 10mths. (Insert lazy mummy emoticon.)

No. Sometimes after he's eaten I remember he's been digging in the garden . A peck of muck and all that.

Feel bad about this because I never remember! I plonk her in the high chair, she starts stuffing her face and it's only then that I think, shit, I forgot to wash her hands!

I wipe hands with a flannel before meals - though it crosses my mind that it isn't the best way of cleaning them...

Try to. Keep a pack of wipes on his highchair so that I have to physically move them before feeding him. Still occasionally forget!

He has his hands rinsed when coming in from the garden, so if we're in the garden before the meal then yes.

I've never thought to do this

Meh, he seems fine.

Oh, thank goodness. My mum was visiting last week and as I plonked DD in her high hair for lunch, Mum asked if I wasn't going to wash her hands first, as we'd been to the park earlier that morning. Felt a very slummy mummy knowing I'd never bothered!

Figure we'll start when she's a bit older and can stand at the sink...

I never thought to do it until DS started nursery, and they do it before every meal. I felt bad . I almost never remember to do it though.

I did from crawling, partly as he just seemed to keep getting colds

We do, probably mainly as they probably are grubby and it's stuck. We spend most days outside rain or shine though so they have usually been playing with worms and bugs, in sand, with dog slobbers sticks, general dirt etc or if home have just finished playing with play dough so blue or similar

Nearly always forget...

Healthy immune challenge! We forget more often than we remember here.