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Washing baby's toys before first use?
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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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Give em a wipe with an antibacterial wipe, yeah. We don't "wash" them though.0
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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
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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)."Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.0 -
But when they reach adulthood there are certain things that they refuse to put in their mouths :rotfl:fluffnutter wrote: »children stick absolutely everything in their mouths all the time.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
I am what you would class as obsessive over germs so yes I would wash them just to make sure0
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I do wash some things, especially those that are secondhand.:j Tehya Baby DD 22/03/2012 :j
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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.0 -
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 itPeople seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Only stuff from charity shops/handed down from friends' kids.Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
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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!0
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