How do you wash your bottles?

raisingarizona2008

Curious if we are washing them correctly.

Thanks!

Melissa ?

choco_lab

I just wash them by hand with regular dish washing detergent and a brush.  I don't run the dishwasher everyday to put them in there and don't have one of those sanitizers.  I think it works just fine!

LucyPevensie

Super hot water and regular dish soap every night - bottles and nipples - and I sterilize the nipples nightly in a Medela microwave steam bag (I do the paci's at the same time.  Almost never sterilize the bottles - except for before first use.  Working well so far!)

Mrs.Reem

I had enough bottles for 2 days and threw them all in the dishwasher every other day.

KMB7

choco_lab:

I just wash them by hand with regular dish washing detergent and a brush.  I don't run the dishwasher everyday to put them in there and don't have one of those sanitizers.  I think it works just fine!

Ditto 

Ms. Y.

I don't have a dishwasher so I wash them with natural unscented dish soap (with a brush) and then pour boiling water into them.

LisaandBryan

I wash them with a bottle brush with a  little bit of soap and hot water and then  put them in the sterilzer-it's the avent microwave one and it only takes 4 minuts so its very easy and makes me feel good knowing they are sterilzed.

tina623

I fill a plastic tub with very hot water and let them soak in it for 15 minutes.  I dump the water, fill it with clean water and scrub them with soap and water w/ bottle brush.  I rinse them in hot water and let them dry.

JillRock96

I sterilize before 1st use, but otherwise just wash them with very hot, soapy water and a bottle/nipple brush.  We use the latex nipples, so they tend to seal shut if boiled often or run through the dishwasher.

 I actually have a big bowl on the counter -- whenever we use a bottle, I toss out the liner (we use Playtex Drop-ins) and throw the other parts in the bowl.  Any pacifiers or plastic toys that need to be washed get thrown in there during the day as well.  Every night I fill the bowl with very hot water and dish soap.  I scrub everything with a brush, rinse with warm water, and spread out on a clean dishtowel to dry.  HTH!

keg

We just throw everything in the dishwasher...with two babies, pump parts, and our regular dishes, we pretty much run the dishwasher every night. 

SS091506

We sterilize (bottles, pump parts, etc.) daily in those Medela microwave steam bags.