baby bottle sterlising

onlyroz

All you need is a large plastic bowl and some sterilising tablets/fluid.

delain

See I cant get my head round that, the stuff smells of bleach and I wouldn't use a cup if I'd just soaked it in bleach! But then I'm a paranoid pregnant woman

onlyroz

delain wrote: »

See I cant get my head round that, the stuff smells of bleach and I wouldn't use a cup if I'd just soaked it in bleach! But then I'm a paranoid pregnant woman

You rinse it off with boiled water before you put the milk in

daveyjp

Microwave as it takes a few minutes which is handy. At some point you will be in a position where you have no sterilised bottles left, but you need one!

Babies don't always drink what you offer and you can get through far more bottles than the number of feeds they have a day. You think they want feeding, they have a small amount then fall asleep, the milk has been made too long so you throw it away - that's another dirty bottle, but baby is still hungry.

They are easy to take away with you too.

atwitsend_2

I have been through 4 different sterilisers :rotfl:
electric for me was not ideal, i burnt the first one out in a tiredness daze, forgetting to put water in the base , i then bought a microwave one and melted the bottles, again forgetting to put water in (made rush out to 24 hour tescos to get more bottles)
i then bought another electric one and accidently pressed the button with no water or bottles in, so burnt out the element....
finally I have an avent microwave one again, this time I havent forgotten to put water in yet :T
Maybe I should do cold water sterilising...might be safer :rotfl:

theladsmum

delain wrote: »

See I cant get my head round that, the stuff smells of bleach and I wouldn't use a cup if I'd just soaked it in bleach! But then I'm a paranoid pregnant woman

I could never understand that either! Had a microwave steriliser for my first, and got bottles from Mothercare for my second that were microwavable to sterlise on their own, no other equipment required. They were even more convenient (several years ago now, so don't know whether they still do them?).

emma-uk

We started off using electric but got fed up with waitng for everything to cool down and once the items had been out for 2 or so hours have to re-do! We swaped it for a standard cold water one and used Milton tablets. No rinsing, sterile in 15 minutes and we just took things out as we needed them, no waiting!

JBD

I am an older Mum. Personally I found that if you want to sterilise and make up several bottles at once then an electric/microwave steriliser is best. I had an electric steriliser , it used to take it approx. 12 minutes to sterilise, 10 minutes to cool down [obviously I could do other things whilst this was happening ] then 5 or so minutes to make up bottles for the next 24 hours.
Then I would put it on again again to sterilise dummies, feeding spoons etc and just take them out as I needed them.
However, if you intend to make each bottle up as you need it then a cold water steriliser may be better. You can wash it out, set it up in the morning [or time to suit], put all your bottles in and take each out as you need it [following minimum sterilising time, obviously]

Quiet_Life

Check Freegle to see if someone has one to give away.. save you a lot of money

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

theladsmum wrote: »

I could never understand that either! Had a microwave steriliser for my first, and got bottles from Mothercare for my second that were microwavable to sterlise on their own, no other equipment required. They were even more convenient (several years ago now, so don't know whether they still do them?).

Yep they still do them Great for out and about too!

Only prob i had was both DD and Nephew would ONLY take the closer to nature TT ones and refused these, lol! But if you are going to use standard bottles you can change over to these MC ones really easily!

For me it was Microwave, but then that's coz it's the only way i ever tried - decided on that before DD was born simply for speed of sterilising as well as low cost. Using the same this time around. Also have a small travel one for the breastpump or travelling - thats really handy imo.