put their fingers in my baby’s mouth? I don’t even kiss other people’s kids (unless it is close family) let alone put my fingers in their baby’s mouth. Nails are the dirtiest part of a person’s body…you would think grown adults would have the common sense to know NOT to put their fingers into the mouth of a small baby. Their immune systems are still weak and can catch stuff so easily.
My MIL currently has a cold sore and I asked her kindly not to kiss my baby until it clears. She agreed to that, but then I see her putting her fingers in my daughter’s mouth today. This totalled erked me. She touches her cold sore with those same fingers!
My SILs have also put their fingers in my daughter’s mouth before.
I wash my hands 50 times a day and I STILL DONT put my fingers in my baby’s mouth.
I will wait until everyone is at the table at dinner time and remind them to please not do this anymore! UGHHHHH! Sorry needed to vent.
Anyone else had this happen before? It is so annoying!
Omg omg omg same thing happend with my baby.ur above post is as if u wrote it. I wash my hands 100 times and still don't out my finger in baby's mouth.
On the hand baby's dado loved doing it. I finally asked her nicely not to do it.
N yes it totally irked me upset me n disgusted me. But it's their way of doing laad.
HATE stereotyping but maybe its a paki thing? or not, i dunno.
We were at the supermarkets and the dude operating the lifts (yes they hire ppl to press buttons from the inside)... saw my baby and out of nowhere stuck his finger inside her mouth!!!!!!!! it was so unexpected! i quickly pulled my baby away from his dirty unwashed hands, i dont care how rude i looked... but his actions grossed me right out.
Also those 50-50 khusrey... they'd try to touch my baby too and when i move my baby away from their reach they get all insulted. whatever.
Hate stereotyping and yet you are compelled to do it.
Paki thing? talk about being offensive. i am pakistani and dnt put my fingers in babys mouth so no its not a pakistani thing
I’ve never heard of this happening.
Nobody I’ve ever known has felt it okay to put their fingers in any baby’s mouth…I can’t even imagine it.
I’m not germ-phobic but this is like inviting trouble…
No its not a “paki” thing nor the world begins or ends at desis or everything desis do!
Above is a very popular picture of Princess Diana with her finger in Prince William’s mouth and if you go type Prince William’s christening on YouTube you can clearly see in the video that she keeps the finger in baby’s mouth. As far as I remember, the British media did not shred her into pieces for following such a backward desi practice.
It is not as “alien” or earth shattering practice as you may think it is. In many pre war European working class cultures, before the invention of pacifier, crying babies were often soothed by having a finger put into their mouth. And many cases, babies were actually fed by using fingers and that was in the era long before milk bottles and cuppies were invented. Most of the things that we find so backward and disgusting in the desi cultures were equally prevalent in most pre war European working class societies.
Having said, what your mother in law is doing is totally wrong and you must explain her in quite clear terms that it is dangerous to baby’s health.
thnkx for writing this to clear this misunderstanding.
i am desi we never do such thing in our family, I have full circle of desi friend not even in a single frnd practice it, so plz dont limit It to desi or Paki. The new trend if anything is odd oh this is desi or paki, stop this generalization plz.
I guess its just a very American thing to hold polarised opinion about everything. Oops, that’s bit of a generalisation, innit? I kid. I kid. I just feel sorry for the young minds who may have to have hear such chauvinist views on the daily basis.
