washing bottles

So... do I hand wash them AND use the sanitizer? Or just the sanitizer?


(Btw, I feel like such an idiot asking such basic questions lol. )

Re: washing bottles

I'm laughing because I can picture you shaking your head as you type your questions


I didn't use one of those bottle sterlizers.
I just boiled a big pot of water and dumped the bottles in. I did that twice in a year. I saw no point in drinving myself crazy. I would just wash the bottles with medela soap but then I got over that and started using regular soap. Now I'm putting them in the dishwasher. See a patern? lol

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Posted by MRsFaTThead



I'm laughing because I can picture you shaking your head as you type your questions


I didn't use one of those bottle sterlizers.
I just boiled a big pot of water and dumped the bottles in. I did that twice in a year. I saw no point in drinving myself crazy. I would just wash the bottles with medela soap but then I got over that and started using regular soap. Now I'm putting them in the dishwasher. See a patern? lol

Re: washing bottles

Posted by MRsFaTThead



I'm laughing because I can picture you shaking your head as you type your questions


I didn't use one of those bottle sterlizers.
I just boiled a big pot of water and dumped the bottles in. I did that twice in a year. I saw no point in drinving myself crazy. I would just wash the bottles with medela soap but then I got over that and started using regular soap. Now I'm putting them in the dishwasher. See a patern? lol

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I just throw them all in the dishwasher on the sanitizer/sterilizer setting. If I didn't have a dish washer I would hand wash them in hot soapy water then maybe boil them. You don't have to go crazy "sterilizing" everything because once the object hits the air or you touch it, it's no longer sterile. I just like to deep clean everything prior to the 1st use.

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I sterilized them the first time;
Once my ped mentioned something about sterliizing bottles when the kids were about 5 months. I figured, well they've made it this far, i think we'reok.
8 months an i havent boiled them since that first time.
i just wash them with 7th gen soap.

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We boiled them for 5 minutes before the 1st use. Then we just washed them in the sink with regular dish soap. I would occassionaly put the glass ones in the dishwasher if it was convenient. We never had a sanitizer thing.

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we boiled them the first time to deep clean especially the nipples. After that they went in the dishwasher. I never had a sterilizer

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boiled them before first use only.
then i used to handwash everything and boil nipples 1x a week.
then i just threw them in the dishwasher.

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i boil everything for first time use. after that everything goes in the dishwasher on the Sanitizer option.

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I washed them and then put them in the sterilizer every time. After a while I stopped using the sterilizer.

ETA: Wahsed and sterilized before first use also.

Message edited 8/8/2013 2:46:37 PM.

washing bottles

I boiled prior to first use. I washed in super hot and soapy water

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for the first few weeks we washed with super hot water and used the sterilizer... now we use the sterilizer about once a week

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I used the sterilizer for a few months, until I read that you only have to really sterilize them before the 1st use. Then, I started washing with hot water & soap.

washing bottles

I must be the only lunatic still washing and sterilizing... I guess I can stop and save myself some time!!

washing bottles

I would boil them in a pot of water before the first use(heck with the bottle sanitizer machine;waste of money) and then use the dishwasher going forward.

washing bottles

I boiled everything to start and then mostly hand washed them. I threw them in the dishwasher occasionally on the top rack. I never used a bottle sterilizer.

washing bottles

I wash with reg soap and then sterilize them. But I did forget a couple of times to sterlize and baby is fine. I think we tend to overthink things. My mom says she boiled the bottles first time around and then only washed them with reg soap, and we turned out fine.