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bottle sterilizer question

sillybiochemistsillybiochemist
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At this point I'm planning on breast feeding but supplementing with a bottle once a day (not exactly sure when I'm starting that but guessing around a month).  My mom picked up two Medela bottles at a store closing sale and via some hand me downs from one of her coworkers, I ended up with 4 nuk bottles (I think they are 6 ounce).  My plan is to get new nipples for the nuk bottles but I'm assuming that once I clean and sterilize them they should be good to go.  Now to the questions:

1)  We have a dishwasher with a sterilization option.  Should we just go with that for the bottles or have a microwave sterilizer?  Since we have different brands of bottles do you recommend a specific sterilizer that works with more bottles than not?

2)  At the moment I'm registered for a starter pack of advent bottles (because I wasn't expecting the hand me down bottles).  Should I keep them on the registry or should I take them off?  I know that little ones can be pretty picky on bottles which is why I wanted to have two brands on hand but having three almost seems silly. 

Any thoughts are appreciated.  TIA! 

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Re: bottle sterilizer question

  • MrsBlayneMrsBlayne member
    I don't use a bottle sterilizer. I think it's one of those things that is convenient but unnecessary. We put our bottles in the dishwasher or hand wash them. I might be the wrong person to give an opinion about the bottles, because B is SUPER picky so we now have literally 10-12 different bottles in the cabinet now. Actually I would probably just stick with the two you have for now, since you have two different nipple shapes, and then wait and see. I am pretty sure most kids are not as insanely picky as mine.
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  • MelVicMelVic

    I do not use a bottle sterilizer either...just wash them by hand with warm water...As far as bottles...I have avent and G loved them up until a week ago so I am now starting Blayne's collection of bottles lol....

    I would hold off on more bottles, like Blayne said you have 2 other nipple choices....and remember most nipples do fit on any bottle, it is not the bottle they will have a problem with if any....it would be the nipple.

    And Blayne- just so you are not alone my friend's son has about 50 different bottles lol until he finally took one......crazy these kids are :) 

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  • AprilJTAprilJT
    I always just threw my bottles in the dishwasher and hand washed the nipples.  I didn't have a ton of bottles but that is because I used the Playtex Drop-Ins so I just changed the liner every time so I didn't need to change the bottle at every feeding.  Some babies can be very picky about bottles but if I were you I would wait.  Rowen was picky about nipples so it didn't really matter what bottle I used as long as I put the right nipple on it.  I bought a sample pack of nipples and tried them all out until I found one he liked.
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