Do you do this?

[minnieandme]

no I've never did that. I think it's gross.

 

[mickeyboat]

I have done it in a pinch. I can't imagine it led to tooth decay.

DH won father of the year, once. Emily dropped her lolipop in the sand, and Keith licked the sand off and gave it back to her. What a guy. can you see we are not big germaphobes?

denae

 

[horseshowmom]

Never done it, never seen anybody do it (and glad of it)...

 

[imsorry]

Well my spit smells delicious.

AAhh yes, nothing like the smell of fresh meatballs on a toddler's face

Hope all the neighborhood dogs didn't chase your kids

 

[meloneyb21]

I have done it in a pinch. I can't imagine it led to tooth decay.

DH won father of the year, once. Emily dropped her lolipop in the sand, and Keith licked the sand off and gave it back to her. What a guy. can you see we are not big germaphobes?

denae

Sand is kinda good though....

But what about a sidewalk or something where so many other people spit and walk everyday? ILL...

 

[pennst8r]

while I wouldn't have done it with the 1st, I definitely did it with the 3rd. Washing it off isn't always possible when you are out and about.

Sometimes, you just do what you have to do---and in some situations life without the binky is worse than spit.

My DSs are grown, and have survived, BTW! (with healthy, white, teeth!)

 

[kimmikayb]

We have a joke in our family.....1st kid everything was nicely washed and sanatized with boiling water before baby touched or sucked on anything. Toys were routinely wiped down with sanatizing wipes and sheets were changed everyday. 2nd kid everything was nicely washed, binkies ran under hot, hot water if dropped. Toys were rountinely wiped off with a wet towel and sheets were changed every three or four days. 3rd kid some things were washed. Binkies were dunked in water or soda to clean. Toys were put away. Sheets were changed once a week. 4th child. If there are chunks on it, it's washed. If you drop your binkie clean it yourself or let daddy suck it off. Toys are everywhere and what's that on your Little People House? Dinner from last week. Don't remember when sheets were changed last.

well, some of it is right but my DH was known to suck off a binkie in a pinch. I always used a wipe or my beer

 

[SwedishMeatball]

AAhh yes, nothing like the smell of fresh meatballs on a toddler's face

Hope all the neighborhood dogs didn't chase your kids

Well now that you mention it, the neighbor's dog was trying to hump my leg last night.

 

[imsorry]

Well now that you mention it, the neighbor's dog was trying to hump my leg last night.

And it wasn't even Wednesday!!!

 

[PoohPrincess76]

I never did with DD. I am always a bit over-prepared and I never went anywhere without an extra bink in the bag just in case.

 

[Robmom]

My SIL would do this all the time and I would cringe watching her do it. I've never done that with my kids.

But when I was a kid, my mom would sometimes use spit to clean my face. Ewww.

 

[famofsix]

EWWW...
I buy pacifers from MAM that land face up I have used a wet wipe if I am desperate. Most of the time I wash it off. Sometimes I have a spare clean one but I have spent half my mothering life searching for pacifers that have been flung.
Then there's that 5 second rule.....

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I've never done it with a pacifier, but I did do it with a sucker once.

Usually, I'd throw it away, but dd was only about 18 months old, and so excited about getting the sucker from the cleaners she dropped it before she'd even had a lick.

Funny thing was a young guy saw me do it and said, "you know you're really a mom when you do something like that."

 

[Steffi]

I've seen worse:

Years ago a neighbor of mine came over, barefoot and carrying her baby. Baby dropped its pacifier, Barefoot Mom picked up the pacifier by the rubber part with her toes, transferred from toes to fingers, and popped it right back in Baby's mouth.

So, at least the mom in the OP's story "sanitized the pacifier with spit" and never put her toes on it at all.

 

[Keli]

No way! Yucky to me! I'm not about to put something laying on the ground in my mouth. I would just go wash the pacifier or if I was in a place I couldn't then dd just had to do without until I got somewhere where I could wash it.
I didn't want the germs from the ground in my mouth and I didn't want the germs from my mouth in dd's mouth. Neither one worked well for me, lol.

 

[KirstenB]

Guess I'm in the minority, cause I do this. In a perfect world, there would be a water fountain nearby. I don't think my spit has superhero powers, rather just trying to keep germs from dd2.

 

[Freyja]

Always! Well, I give it to DH to do now that DS is older (and has bad breath at times), but when he was an infant, that's what I did. Rather I got the dirt in my mouth than DS..

Same here.

 

[curlybop]

I've seen it done, but have not done it myself....if it was dropped & I couldn't wash it, I'd grab another or hurry to find some water somewhere.

 

[Beth76]

Why is wiping it your own mouth better than wiping it on your shirt or something? Besides the germs our still on the binky, so now you've both got gross germs. I'm failing to see any logic here except maybe martyrdom.

 

[katerkat]

Not only do I not lick it - I don't even wash it. I figure he spend enough time in the dirt that some on his bink won't hurt.

Before he was born, I used to think kids chewing on car keys were gross. Yeah, not so much anymore.