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People touching babys hands, does it bother you?
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Does it bother anyone else when relatives and other people touch their baby's hands? It bothers me from a hygiene point of view as babies put their hands in their mouths. DD has also now got conjunctivitis which I don't know if she picked up from a relative or friend via hands. Do you ask people to wash their hands or use hand gel before holding them? Am I being over the top? DD is 9 weeks.
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Unless baby has a special reason for caution, ie is immunosuppressed or has just come from SCBU, I don't think it should be a concern. Also once they are only a tiny bit bigger they are capable of getting all sorts of germs on their hands and in their mouths all by their pretty selves!
It's easy to worry too much and we are all guilty of it from time to time!!x
I agree with Maenad and think that we shouldn't try to keep them germ free completely, it's not healthy and they need to build up their own resistances.
J xx
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It bothers me a hell of a lot more when I know people have been smoking and then they lean right over lo and breathe their nasty cigarette breath all over her. I have told someone before who had literally just put their cigarette out to stand back from her.
I think my most weird moment was in a coffee shop, lo was crying and this teenage girl was talking to lo and then she reached over to take the lid off her bottle and went to put it in her mouth - at that point it was like WTF back off!! I was very polite but to me THAT was a little tooooo much familiarity to me!!!