Dr Browns bottles & Daycare

megdrew1218

Might be an obvious answer here, but just looking to see how people do the Dr. Brown's bottles with daycare. (Might be easier to just switch to drop ins for daycare.. but I wasn't sure about two different bottles for DD).

Anyway - I pump right into the bottle, then put a bottle cap on. I usually just put the nipple and parts in a baggie. So once the bottle is used, what should I have the daycare lady do (she doesn't wash them for me). Should I buy a gladware box and have her rinse and just put them in there? Back into a ziploc bag, which I'd have to throw out everyday since washing and drying them is more difficult (I think) than a box?

Or do people just have them put the cap over the nipple and everything and put into a box or bag? I didn't know if putting just that cap over it if it would leak since it wouldn't have the disc over the bottle part.

 Not sure if any of that rambling makes sense. But I'm interested to here the logistics of transporting these back and forth to daycare. Seems like a pain to me.

ballerina06

I use the Dr. Browns bottles with my in home daycare.  I leave a few bottles at the daycare and she washes them and keeps them.  I have a stash of them for my house as well so I don't have to transport them back and forth.  I would say if she won't wash them for you I would have her put them back together with the cap and plastic disc and just give them back to you in a bag for you to wash at home.

cindyhow

We send the bottle fully ready, with the insert in the cap so it does not leak.  Daycare rinses out the bottle and puts them back in DD's bag or cooler for going home (assembled). Sometimes we get the insert inside the bottle or it's tossed in the bag. We leave her bag there so any dirty clothes etc get put in there too.