Bottle prep machine & sterilisers advice

We used the tommee tippee prep machine with our eldest and it was fine, but my youngest just didn’t really get on with it so we stopped and just did the same method but using the kettle and cooled boiled water we always kept in the fridge. If I was to do it again I’d do the kettle method straight away and save my money on a prep machine, it’s just as quick and probably safer. As for sterilising we had the mam bottles that are self sterilising in the microwave

There’s emerging evidence that these are not safe as they do not get the water hot enough to kill the bacteria in formula x https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIIzN5gIILq/?igsh=YXo5czVtejRnOWtk

I personally wouldn’t use a prep machine but a sterilizer for sure. Prep machines can be renowned for causing colic and not always heating to the correct temp. It’s honestly just as easy to pre make your bottles the night before and do the fridge method x

Baby Brezza has several lawsuits in America cause of how poorly it’s made babies … the prep machine is also not advised as the hot shot isn’t always the min 70 degrees it needs to be, ours was only 53 degrees so stopped using it immediately. Some people love them but I don’t think they’re worth the risk personally … we used hot shot & cool boiled water to make ours x

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We have the tommee topper steam steriliser, it’s really simple to use you just pop 80ml of water in the bottom, load it and press go. The only thing is that bottles will come out damp, it doesn’t dry them. They are fine to use straight away or you can put the bottle back together and it’s good for 24 hours/ leave it in the steriliser if you don’t need to put it on again. You can sterilise some bottles in the microwave, depending on brand of bottle, but the microwave needs to be really clean and ours never is 😂

@N 💞 what do you keep the cooled boiled water in, in the fridge?

@Lucy just a regular mam baby bottle

@N 💞 might sound silly but what do you do with the kettle and cool boiled water? I have a prep machine but have been trying not to use it but doing a bottle with the kettle just takes to long to cool down 🤦‍♀️ I evn bought the nuby rapid cool hoping that would be better but you have to clean that after every bottle so is a pain x

@Charlotte have you tried the fridge method? You can pre-make your bottles for the day, and store them in the fridge for up to 24 hours so that when you come to use one, you can just heat it up and you’re good to go. We did this with our first and it made life so much easier! It’s also an NHS approved method xx

@Charlotte so I’d boil the kettle, pour roughly 1/3 of the feed amount into a fresh bottle, add the powder and dissolve, then top up the remaining 2/3 with the cooled boiled water I kept in the fridge. Once the bottle was made I’d also top up the fridge bottle at the same time so it had time to cool right down before the next bottle was due. It’s super easy and if you were going out for the day you’d just have to fill a flask with the boiling water and remember to grab the cooled bottles out the fridge

@Amy I would love to do that but I am sure I was told you cannot pre make the bottles and should only make them up when needed 😕

@N 💞 do you leave the boiled water out to cool down before putting it in fridge or just put it straight in hot? X

@Charlotte nope I just put it straight in the fridge

@Melissa away from home as in where? Surely the most obvious place to do the fridge method is at home where you have ready access to the fridge. I mean like you say people can do what they like I just think if you can do things to make your life easier with a newborn (that the NHS have approved) then we should absolutely take the little wins where we can! X

Thanks so much - lots of considerations highlighted, which is very helpful 🙏🏼