Washing hands

LorMor · November 2013

How fussed are you with washing LO's hands?

T's fingers are always in her mouth, so it would do her well to have clean hands, but I never think of just washing her hands. We'll wash them if they are obviously dirty, like when she's been digging, but otherwise, I don't think of it. They obviously get washed in the bath every day.

Am I being totally negligent, or is this okay?

morrkim · November 2013

I don't think about it either unless they obviously need to be washed. I figure with her crawling around they are just going to get dirty again in just a few minutes. Also she enjoys washing her own hands in the dogs water bowl if you don't stop her.

PixelPosy · November 2013

We started washing hands before meals... No soap yet, just rinsing basically. She thinks it is great fun to stick her hands under the faucet.

StefanieM522 · November 2013

I wash his hands after meals because he is usually sticky or if they are dirty, but mostly just in the bath at night. I know at daycare they wash his hands after every diaper change and after all meals and snacks.

chricast · November 2013

I wash them if she' has dirty hands but we were at the Dr. Office yesterday and she was playing with the toy in the waiting room while a snotty boy was playing. I made sure she didn't touch her face then as soon as we got in the room I washed her hands. We don't go to daycare so I'm not used to sharing with snotty kids lol.

Ziegeficker · November 2013

That's funny that you bring this up, because I just remarked to my husband that I can't remember the last time I washed Henry's hands outside of bath time. We wipe his hands down after meals, but I wouldn't really count that as washing them.

I'm going to go ahead and say it's A-OK! Ha...

pb_bride · November 2013

We don't wash hands in the strictest sense, but we wipe hands several times a day:

Upon wakeup

Before and after each meal and snack

Before bed

hilsy85 · November 2013

I try to remember to wipe his hands before meals, and I always wipe them after because they're usually covered in food. Other than that, I try to wipe them after we leave the park and after we leave playspace.

lady dixneuf · November 2013

I wash his hands w soap when we get home every day bc god knows daycare is germ land.

otherwise he just gets wiped down after meals, etc.

ac1259 · November 2013

lol...I only thought of this today because a friend of mine used hand sanitizer on her 18 month old and I was thinking "I don't think that would be a good idea with mine because she'd probably just eat it.." but yeah we wipe if they're visibly dirty but otherwise just with bath time.

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