Washing baby's toys before first use?

I did a big ramble but decided to condense lol. What I would like to know is, do you prewash your childrens/babies toys or do you give them to them fresh out the packet/box? I've been told its odd to prewash them so I am now curious lol because I dont think it is!
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  • Gordon_Hose
    Gordon_Hose Posts: 6,259 Forumite
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    Give em a wipe with an antibacterial wipe, yeah. We don't "wash" them though.
  • katiechoc_2
    katiechoc_2 Posts: 1,173 Forumite
    I give them a wipe over - I did try and sterilise one but managed to melt it so sticking to the wipes from now on :o
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  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    Depends on the age of the baby I guess. I bought my two month old a teething toy and I must confess I gave it a bit of a wash - but more to remove the smell of plastic than from a 'bacteria' point of view. I certainly wouldn't bother washing a toy for an older child.

    We're surrounded by bugs, and children stick absolutely everything in their mouths all the time. There's no way you can achieve anything approaching a sterile environment (and nor would you want to - bad for the immune system).
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  • System
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    children stick absolutely everything in their mouths all the time.
    But when they reach adulthood there are certain things that they refuse to put in their mouths :rotfl:
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  • go_cat
    go_cat Posts: 2,509 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I am what you would class as obsessive over germs so yes I would wash them just to make sure
  • I do wash some things, especially those that are secondhand.
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  • Cryztal
    Cryztal Posts: 335 Forumite
    when my children were little I always washed new toys (we didnt have baby wipes back then lol).

    It wasnt so much to steralise them but having worked in a factory makking plastic childrens toys it was to remove ay residual machine oil/powders etc.
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    Never washed a kids toy in my life so i do think its a bit odd/OCD but clearly there are plenty of others who do it
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  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    Only stuff from charity shops/handed down from friends' kids.
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  • zcrat41
    zcrat41 Posts: 1,798 Forumite
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    No one washed the mud pies I made as a child. Or the dog nuts I occassionally stole and ate (weird child I know!). Or sterilized the water from the brook I used to drink.

    For a very young baby I might wipe a teething toy but that would be as far as I went.

    Ask me in a year when my first baby will be 8 months old though and I may be a little more ocd!
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