Bottles and sterilising
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We done this with our first and will be with this one. Cold steriliser works perfectly for them! Just throw them all in the bucket and leave.
How do you dry the bottled once sterilised? I tried ours out the other day and left them in the steriliser then tried them on a towel but there's still beads of water in the bottles now! X
@Anna you don't need to dry them, you can just use them straight out of the water from the milton bucket 👍🏻
Ahh right OK perfect. Is that the same with a steriliser? I was just wondering what about if you do 4/5 at a time then need to store them with the lids on until the next feed? Or do you just sterilise right before you need to use one?
Just tip the water out and leave them in the bucket. You can use them either straightaway or 4 hours later.
@Anna bottles remain sterile for 24 hours after they’ve been sterilised. I will be making the bottles up after as I find it easier. I’ll also need to use it for other things so saves huge waits
Yeah so you just wash with hot soapy water, rinse with cold, chuck in the bucket. After 20 mins in bucket the bottles are good to go, what we used to do at the beginning was wash and sterilise all throughout the day as you go as babies are on little milk and very often so we used teeny tiny bottles from hospital for the first wee while. Once baby started drinking consistently more we switched to our proper bottles and would just rinse after use during the day so there wasn’t any milk bubbles sat in them, and then at night wash them all, change the water and new tablet in the bucket and throw all the bottles in. In the morning we’d assemble / my partner would before work and then that would be the bottles I’d need for the rest of that day ready to go.
Tablet in bucket needs changed every 24 hours as well so helps to be consistent with this so you don’t forget when it was last changed / have to tip out fresh buckets of water your partner had just done because you weren’t 100% if changed yet or not lol. Speaking from experience 🤣🤣🤣
I am this time! We just done them in the microwave with our first but going to try the cold water steriliser this time instead. Got the mam bottles still though as we can just sterilise in the microwave when we’re away from home so no need to take the cold water steriliser with us too x