article_snippet.sent: DO wash your hands before you touch my baby.
article_snippet.sent: Emily-Jane says: 'You may think you have clean hands until you meet the first time mother of a newborn. '
article_snippet.sent: The brand new mum is highly adept in detecting dirt invisible to the naked eye.
article_snippet.sent: The brand new mum is well aware that on every square centimetre of your hand there are 1,500 bacteria. '
article_snippet.sent: And the moment you touch The brand new mum ’s face or, god forbid, let my baby suck your finger (why?)
article_snippet.sent: The brand new mum can see all 50,000 of those germy little tossers wriggling off your hand and into The brand new mum ’s brand new little mouth.