Little Froggie – I confess I never sterilised my babies’ dummies (that’s what we call them in this country) when the dropped on the floor. Tap water or Mummy’s mouth was fine. And after four months I stopped sterilising my younger child’s bottles between feeds (my older one was only given a bottle past this age anyway, so hers were never sterilised). However when it comes to a situation where a baby could fall out and get injured, a mother cannot be laissez-faire. I also confess that I rarely strap my baby in the highchair (it has a wedge between the legs to prevent slipping) and that I don’t have a stair gate. B”H my older one was too scared to go near the stairs until she learned to slide down them herself and my younger one isn’t crawling yet. But I will not put my kids in a situation where it is fairly likely they could get hurt. For example, I will not drive in the car without strapping my kids in, and cannot understand parents who drive with their kids standing, kneeling, crawling over the back seats – WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE?? All it takes is one small incident (it doesn’t even have to be major, an emergency stop will be enough) and those kids will be flying out the windows and acquiring some serious injurious chas v’sholom.
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