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groovypeg
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sterlizing bottles
am using advent bottles to give expressed BM to Hannah. I have the steam microwave sterlizer. are you supposed to sterilize before using a bottle?
i have so many questions and i am so overwhelmed b/c she was so early. our house was not ready for a baby.
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Posted 6/15/06 9:53 PM  |
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btrflygrl
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Re: sterlizing bottles
relax....I boiled the nipples ONCE before the first use. I washed the bottles with warm soapy water before first use, and do so after each use, unless the dishwasher is ready to go, then they get thrown in there!
Never had a sterilizer. Also, boil her pacifiers before first use.
You'll be fine...take it one day (or even one hour) at a time!
I LOVE her name too!
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| Posted 6/15/06 9:56 PM |
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groovypeg
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Re: sterlizing bottles
thank you so much. i know, i need to relax. it is just so overwhelming. thank g-d my mother has been here everyday helping me get organized. my poor dh is so sick, he has been sent to the basement for fear of getting Hannah sick!
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| Posted 6/15/06 10:08 PM |
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Samlove
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Shari
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Re: sterlizing bottles
Posted by btrflygrl
relax....I boiled the nipples ONCE before the first use. I washed the bottles with warm soapy water before first use, and do so after each use, unless the dishwasher is ready to go, then they get thrown in there!
Never had a sterilizer. Also, boil her pacifiers before first use.
You'll be fine...take it one day (or even one hour) at a time!
I LOVE her name too!
I do the same but I am getting so tired of washing bottles sometimes. I even told DH that doc said we have to wash bottles in the dishwasher 3x a week bc I didnt feel llike washing them
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| Posted 6/15/06 10:11 PM |
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btrflygrl
me and baby #3!
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Re: sterlizing bottles
Posted by groovypeg
thank you so much. i know, i need to relax. it is just so overwhelming. thank g-d my mother has been here everyday helping me get organized. my poor dh is so sick, he has been sent to the basement for fear of getting Hannah sick!
 Alyson had a cold when she was about 5 or 6 weeks old.
Sounds like your doing a kick @ss job!
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| Posted 6/15/06 10:12 PM |
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pharmcat2000
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Re: sterlizing bottles
My ped told me to sterilize everything for the first month. I didn't though. I boiled everything before first use and now I just wash in hot soapy water. The water in my house is so hot that it burns my hands even through the gloves so I feel comfortable doing it this way.
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| Posted 6/15/06 10:57 PM |
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jpsgirl
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Re: sterlizing bottles
same here, I sterilized for maybe the first 3 weeks with the microwave thing, and then just the dishwasher if it's about to be run....otherwise hot soapy water!
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| Posted 6/15/06 11:25 PM |
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Re: sterlizing bottles
I sterlize every part to the bottle including the nipple covers every night after he goes to bed. It was a pain in the beginning because I was sterlizing breast pump parts after each time I used them (dont ask me why) so when DH got home it was his job, if my mom was over she did it. Now that Luka is 9 weeks old I only do it once a day and it is so much easier (he is also on formula so I dont have as many things to clean). It will get easier. My mother thinks I am nuts for sterlizing it everyday.
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| Posted 6/16/06 7:08 AM |
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