OK, so why do they tell you sterilise dummies when....

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....babies suck on boobs and their hands and your finger all day?

DS2 (5 wks) is a very sucky baby but refuses to take a dummy, so spends a lot of time sucking our little fingers. I suddenly started worrying about germs etc (we do keep our hands clean) but it occurred to me that he is bf and I don't sterilise my norks, and he sucks his own hands and I never see him washing them.

So why do the dummy instructions say to sterilise them?

god knows i was rubbish at all of that, used to bung them in the proper steriliser occasionally when i remembered, and in the dishwasher most evenings....and then pick it straight off the floor during the day and assume my sucking it and then bunging it in her mouth would do?!
know other mothers who were much, er...better at it.

have to say my turning point (altho my dd was a little older at that point) was on picking dog hairs out of her mouth and realising that it was all pointless.
anyway, she's fine. i love the idea of your ds2 washing his hands. bless him

probably cos if they picked something up someone might try and sue the dummy manufacturers.
but you can't sue yourself? lol

I agree though, tis stupid. never sterilised a thing for ds2

it's weird isn't it? I just suddenly started thinking about my hands having hand cream, popcorn residue, probably some antibacterial handwash residue, and a million other sundry bacteria and germs and stuff on them, and here he is gaily sucking it all off......

There's a great thread on here somewhere by RTKangamummy (I think) about why sterilising isn't necessary... ever... For the points you've just made.

Free yourself - don't bother.

Given that DS2's reaction to a dummy so far has not been a positive one, I think it's going to be the finger method for a while yet, so he'd better get used to the odd germ.

Wait till they start eating out of the dog/cat bowl, then you realise there was never any point to it at all