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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Oh I did that all the time early on, same with hovering over the baby monitor at night. “He hasn’t breathed in a while, I’m going in. Oh wait he farted we’re good”.
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Yep. Bassinet usage extended for the first child for reasons like that. For the second, it was far more "Went into room every 2-4 hours, just in case. Child was fine, 2-4 hours seemed like overkill.".
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I'm on my 4th baby.
Food goes in one end, comes out the other end. Keep both ends clean.
That's basically all there is to it at this point.
It's adorable watching new parents bathe in sanitizer before handling their baby and boiling anything the baby touches.
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I get it. You want to do it right the first time and better to err on caution. But on the second time, you either know what you're doing, or you're too damn tired to do it exact every damn time.
I remember exactly how I stopped the sanitization for my first child.
"He crawls on the floor and then licks his hands. I doubt sanitizing the bottles is doing much comparatively to prevent germs since he's allowed on the ground."
For my second, we didn't sanitize except for theatrical reasons for the grandparents, but we did rinse with tap hot water as needed. Lessons learned on how to keep kid 1 alive applied to kid 2.
"Fell on the floor. Should be fine."
"That's a pretty big dust bunny and there's a few hairs on the bottle."
"Fiiiiine. I'll rinse it."