dr browns bottle users

devinmichelle · October 2011

We use the Dr Browns bottles for LO but they are a pain to wash! I would much rather use them though and have a happy baby than go back to the cheap ones and have a gassy baby again! We wash them by hand but I am wondering if we could just put them in the dish washer. I don't know if all the small holes would get clean though. How do you wash them?

toriwc · October 2011

Dishwasher and then a rinse by hand.

demmie326 · October 2011

I toss them in a sink full of soapy water and then load them into the dishwasher using the container Dr Brown's sells. Personally it is not the washing that bothers me it is the drying or making sure that everything is dry.

ohyeahdollface · October 2011

I usually hand wash them each time, which I agree, is a pain in the arse!

Once a week, I do a quick no-soap scrub with the brush, to get the milk off, rinse, and load them in the dish washer. I have a sanitize setting on the washer, and that is how I sanitize once a week.

lanbob · October 2011

I wash and boil. I also use playtex airvents witch work good too are easier for me to clean.

Karma01 · October 2011

about once a week they go through the dishwasher. I find my bottles dry better being handwashed.

krissywags · October 2011

I have done both. We only have 4 - 4oz bottles so I tend to hand wash every day in hot soapy water. If the dishwasher is ready to go when LO has just finished her 4th bottle I will throw them in there (the cycle lasts an hour and 15 minutes).

I normally let them air dry on the grass mat dryer thing we got... I don't dry them by hand and sometimes they will get put together wet... I figure that they are already going to get wet, why get them linty with the towel.

Kimera · October 2011

I start by putting some dish soap on the sponge section of the Dr Brown bottle brush.

As I pick up a bottle from the sink, I run some hot water into it, then scrub with the bottle brush being sure to rotate the brush while scrubbing and rinse. Then I scrub the nipples and bottle caps with the nipple brush, and the blue vents with their buff valves using the silver brushes that come in the bottle. With practice I have knocked down bottle washing time despite hand washing all of them (my house cant handle a dishwashing machine so I've never had one >.<) It also helps that I have the Dr. Brown steam sterilizer, which can sterilize multiple bottles very quickly. (Its a huge improvement over having to boil things on a regular basis.)

Brushes and Sterilizer

Everything gets dried on the Dr. Brown drying rack. I alternate putting bottles and vents on the little stems, using the flat part to dry out nipples bottle lids and valves. That way one drying rack holds about eight bottles (four 4oz on the top, and four 8oz bottles on the bottom). The 'poker chip' peices that go into the bottles when they are not being immediately used are washed, dried, and put in a little storage box on my counter along with spare bottle brushes and other bottle-related odds and ends.

Drying Rack

kellbranc · October 2011

You all still boil bottles?? I read that once you boil them initially there is no need to keep doing so.

I wash by hand most of the time but I will use the Dr. Browns Dishwasher basket maybe once/day and then let rinse and let dry on the drying rack.

I feel the babies are exposed to FAR more germs then what they will get on the bottle.

njohnson1972 · October 2011

I have 9 4-ounce bottles that I wash in the dishwasher every night. I bought 3 dishwasher containers for all of the bottle parts. I load them as we use the bottles, so that we don't lose any parts. So far, it works well for us.

BTW, BRU has Dr. Browns for buy one, get one 1/2 off right now.

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