washing bottles and pump parts

darkskyy · January 2011

I use breastflow bottles with have a million parts - seriously, including the cap it's 5 separate parts. Which means 25 parts to wash at the end of the day not including pump pieces and the bottles I pumped into. (That's 39 pieces to wash, if we're keeping score...)

I've been putting as much that fits into a large bowl with hot soapy water, scrubbing each with bottle brush, putting into another empty bowl, then rinse each piece.

How do you wash them?? It's SO tedious by hand. Or do you boil every day? Or use the dishwasher? We don't run the dishwasher every day, so I would hate to run a load just for the bottles. How often do you boil?

CLAYLIOVER · January 2011

I use my bottle sterilizer but I also do the hot soapy water bowl too! Frankly I am lazy and dont always have the energy to boil everyday!

darkskyy · January 2011

CLAYLIOVER:
I use my bottle sterilizer but I also do the hot soapy water bowl too! Frankly I am lazy and dont always have the energy to boil everyday!

Just realized that if I have 39 pieces, you would have 78. I'm going to stop complaining

I boil once a week now since I just started work, that's gonna get old soon too!

sevenonesix · January 2011

Can you use the medela microwave steamer bags? (I forget the real name) they're really convenient!

attyalice · January 2011

I used the sterilizer bags from medela and then boiled them once a month....

ihearteddieboo · January 2011

DS uses playtex drop ins, so I have very few pieces to wash but I do the same as you. Have a big bowl of hot soapy water, scrub with a bottle brush, rinse and air dry on the drying rack. If I'm about to run the dishwasher and have some extra room on the top rack, I'll toss the bottles in there. I have a microwave sterilizer that I use once a week.

As for my pump parts, same thing. I soak in hot soapy water, rinse and air dry. I put the pump parts in the microwave setrilizer bags from Medela every morning.

CLAYLIOVER · January 2011

darkskyy:

CLAYLIOVER:
I use my bottle sterilizer but I also do the hot soapy water bowl too! Frankly I am lazy and dont always have the energy to boil everyday!

Just realized that if I have 39 pieces, you would have 78. I'm going to stop complaining

I boil once a week now since I just started work, that's gonna get old soon too!

bwahaha complain away! It doesnt matter how many parts you have its time consuming and not pleasant

Addicted2thenot · January 2011

Also a fan of the steamer bags

hopingwaiting · January 2011

I use hot soapy water daily. When we run the dishwasher, I put as much in there as possible since in my head that gets them more sterile than the hot soapy water. I use the microwave baggies periodically to sterilize. I never boil except before I use things for the first time.

nicobean1 · January 2011

I never boil. My DCP washes the same bottle after each use (I send milk in freezer bags), and she sends it home clean. So I just need to dry it. My pump parts get soap and hot water.

If I'm putting stuff in the dishwasher, the small bits go in a mesh lingerie bag and I just throw it in on top of the top rack.

darkskyy · January 2011

nicobean1:

I never boil. My DCP washes the same bottle after each use (I send milk in freezer bags), and she sends it home clean. So I just need to dry it. My pump parts get soap and hot water.

If I'm putting stuff in the dishwasher, the small bits go in a mesh lingerie bag and I just throw it in on top of the top rack.

Love the mesh bag idea! I have one of those plastic things made for this, but it doesnt hold much and not worth the price of another. mesh bag is cheaper and i think i already have one.

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