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No dishwasher

laurenmae1228laurenmae1228 member
in April 2012 Moms

So this is probably a really stupid question, but I'm a FTM, so please go easy on me.

Our townhouse is 60 years old, and although the previous owners redid the kitchen at some point (I'm thinking 90s), they didn't put in a dishwasher. This has been fine for DH and I, but I saw the FTM post from a little earlier asking if bottles were okay to put in the dishwasher, and it got me thinking about the possibility that they might not be okay to handwash.

Will they get clean enough handwashing them? I know I'll have to get a bottle brush, and to use hot water, etc., but in this case, should I also get a bottle sterilizer? (I've heard so many people say they're a waste of money). Or does anybody boil baby bottles in hot water anymore? (I'm assuming that option would only be for glass bottles though? Or can you sterilize the plastic ones this way?)

Unfortunately, the costs of renovating our kitchen to put in a dishwasher just aren't doable right now or in the forseeable future, so I need to figure out what I can do without one.

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  • ninjabridemomninjabridemom

    You can handwash them fine.

     

    If you're breastfeeding and pumping, I think you will want a sterilizer, but you can get the microwave ones and it's NBD (at least, from my previous nanny experience). 

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  • laurenmae1228laurenmae1228 member
    Thanks so much! I felt like an idi0t posting this question, but I just really don't know. I'm hoping to breastfeed as much as I can, but also hoping to pump for extra supply so DH/Grandmas, etc can bottlefeed as well. I'll definitely look into that microwave sterilizer. Good to know that my lack of dishwasher isn't going to give my baby sub-par bottles though! (I know, it sounds even more stup1d when I put it that way, since that was essentially what I was asking. Sigh...) Smile
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  • Punken13Punken13 member

    imagewilburbud:
    you do not need a dishwasher. I had DD without one, and will have this one without one. I did not use a bottle sterilizer. The only time I sterilized my bottles was when I first purchased them. all I did was put them in boiling water for 15 seconds. 

     

    this exactly except I have boys:)




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  • P.S.10P.S.10
    We didn't have a dishwasher for the first few months of DD's life, and it was fine.  I used the Munchkin microwave bottle sanitizer at home, but when we were traveling I just washed the bottles by hand in the hotel sink and never had problem.  We ended up getting a dishwasher when I went back to work, but we could've continued with out one just as easily.
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