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Breast pump cleaning

July_2009July_2009
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Please recommend how you clean your breast pump parts. Which soap do you use? I have been running the parts under real hot water and sterilize them in Dr.Brown's sterlizer each night. I am not sure if I am doing it right. Please recommend. 
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Re: Breast pump cleaning

  • SoonerMagicMamaSoonerMagicMama
    I clean daily with hot water and dish soap.  I sterilize about twice a week with the Medela steam bags, but daily sterilize when we have thrush.
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  • nicoleandadamnicoleandadam

    imageSoonerMagicMama:
    I clean daily with hot water and dish soap.  I sterilize about twice a week with the Medela steam bags.

    This.  We just use regular dish soap (I think Dawn).

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  • BrendaKBrendaK member

    I wash after every use with dish soap and hot water.

    I sterilized it when I first bought it, but haven't since. Embarrassed

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  • vtkgirl77vtkgirl77
    I have a big plastic mixing bowl and I fill it with hot water and regular dish soap. I throw everything in there to soak for a minute and then I clean and rinse each part.
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  • Lulu0802Lulu0802 member

    imagevtkendra:
    I have a big plastic mixing bowl and I fill it with hot water and regular dish soap. I throw everything in there to soak for a minute and then I clean and rinse each part.

    I've been handwashing each item with warm soapy water, but I like this idea much better!

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  • BarnStarBarnStar
    I hand wash in hot soapy water with Dawn after every use. I put them through the dishwasher in a wash basket along with bottle nipples about once a week on a high temp/sani rinse cycle. I sterilize in the microwave about once a month.
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  • ficklefionaficklefiona
    i just hand wash with hot soapy water and air dry. i've sterilized maybe twice.
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  • ValerianOddityValerianOddity
    imageBrendaK:

    I wash after every use with dish soap and hot water.

    I sterilized it when I first bought it, but haven't since. Embarrassed

    This.  I have one of those basins like they give you in the hospital, and I fill it with scalding hot water and dish soap, and put my parts in it to soak.  I leave them until the water is a comfortable temp to put my hands in, then hand wash them. I clean my bottles the same way.

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