How do you clean your bottles?

I worry maybe I'm not doing it right.

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For the first two months, I was cleaning them with soap and water and then sterilizing them in the microwave daily. Then I read that washing them in hot soapy water was fine. I still sterilize them once a week. Sometimes I put them in the dishwasher on the top rack.

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for the first few months i washed with warm soapy water then i would boil them in a big pot of water. Now i just wash them in the dishwasher

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soap & water

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I always use the dishwasher...but lately I feel like im making dishes just tobe able to get clean bottles...

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If I run the dishwasher and remember to load them in - I do it that way. I don't run my dishwasher very orten though.

But for the most part - soap and very warm water.

Message edited 11/9/2005 7:33:22 PM.

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Dishwasher every day...at our co-op we don't pay for water.

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I boiled them for the first week, then hot water and dish soap.

If I am runnning the DW, which is only every couple of days, I will put the bottles/sippy's in for an extra cleaning but the cost is not the issue for me I don't want to waste water.

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I used to wash them by hand (hot water and soap) but now I put them in the dishwasher. We have enough bottles and nipples to last 3 days, so I load it up over 2 days and run it every other night. Between the bottles and our dishes we always have a full load.

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wash them with soap and warm water then put them in the big pot and let it boil for about 2-5 minutes.

she is already 16 months, is sterilizing them

still necessary?

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Ok ...maybe I'm a little neurotic but I wash them with hot soapy water and then sterilize them....Everyday!!!...Am I the only one who does this....I thought you were supposed to sterilize the bottles before you could use them again.

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Soap and Water. With twins, we go through 12 bottles a day, so sometimes corners have to be cut.

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I always used soap and hot water or dishwasher.

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I used to wash them by hand in hot soapy water. I sterilized for the first couple of weeks.

Now they go in the dishwasher. I still only need to run it every other day which is the norm for us anyway.

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When I would take them out of the package I would sterilize them then after that I would wash them in hot soapy water and once a month I would sterilize them in boiling water

not that she is 14 months I and on sippy cups I wash the sippy cups before she can use them

Message edited 11/10/2005 9:47:17 AM.

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We don't have a dishwasher also -- so I was them with soap and hot water every day -- and steam sterilize them in the microwave thing about 2-3 times a week. I asked the pediatritian about this and she said that is absolutely FINE!

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