Dr Brown bottle users!

Helmink0804 · July 2014

How the hell do you clean them?! I curse every time- the blue tube is a pain in the ass and so is the tube caps! I try using the bottle brushes but they don't fit in! I use QTips to clean the tubes and caps- anyone have a way of doing it that's easier?

DBonfante · July 2014

Boiling hot water. I agree the parts are annoying but they are so worth it. They also come with that little brush. Have you tried using that?

springbeduk2 · July 2014

The little tiny brush that came with the set fits well for me. And I got their brand of bigger brush for the bottle itself too. It was cheap on Amazon as were extras if the tiny brushes. I've only used bottles a couple times so far though - will probably be joining you in cursing the extra small parts as soon ad I'm back to work!

MrsT2008 · July 2014

I use the little brush that comes with them. It's annoying but it's not that bad.

Sam0905 · July 2014

I just use really hot soapy water and the tiny brush that came with them. I use a regular bottle brush for the bottle part.

deeandsteve · July 2014

I also bought the bigger dr browns brush for the bottles, which helps with the caps.

Helmink0804 · July 2014

Ha! My mother in law gave us the bottles and there was no little brush! Guess that's why it's more of a pain in the ass for me!

jjtyler · July 2014

They sell the little brushes at BRU and BuyBuyBaby. Love those Dr Browns. I wash and steam sterilize.

RachelCA29 · July 2014

As others have said, I use the little brush when hand washing them, and they go in the dishwasher (I have a little parts basket I bought at BRU) a few times a week on the sanitize mode (we don't fill our dishwasher every day with just my husband and me, so they only get washed in the dishwasher when it's full).

manna1212 · July 2014

Sam0905 said:
I just use really hot soapy water and the tiny brush that came with them. I use a regular bottle brush for the bottle part.

This is exactly what I do!

chillypenguin · July 2014

Also just a suggestion, keep the little brushes (or buy a set down the road) because they are perfect for cleaning straws in sippy cups.

lauralou3x3 · July 2014

I use the little brush too. And my bottle brush fits in the blue tube (the bigger part of the tube)

meli1025 · July 2014

The dishwasher. The sell baskets where all of those parts fit in nicely and I hardly ever hand wash them. When I do, I use the brushes (small and big) but it's a total PITA.

lauralou3x3 · July 2014

meli1025 said:
The dishwasher. The sell baskets where all of those parts fit in nicely and I hardly ever hand wash them. When I do, I use the brushes (small and big) but it's a total PITA.

Major PITA. I hand wash them because my dishwasher takes forever!

giggler25 · July 2014

So this is a newb question but how often do you need to sterilize bottles? Just the first time, or regularly? What if you only use them every once in a while?

lauralou3x3 · July 2014

giggler25 said:
So this is a newb question but how often do you need to sterilize bottles? Just the first time, or regularly? What if you only use them every once in a while?

Call me crazy but I don't sterilize. I just wash with warm water very thoroughly. But if I were to, I would probably do it maybe 1x/week.

jsaffer01 · July 2014

I used hot soapy water and the big and little brushes. I also have the dr. Brown sanitizer so I sanitize everytime because it only takes 5mins in the microwave. I have a little bottle cleaning routine.

momo214 · July 2014

Am I a bad mom for not using bottle brushes? I feed pumped bm in a bottle maybe once a week and when I wash the bottle I fill a bowl with hot soapy water, let the bottle sit for a bit, then shake the hot soapy water in it and rinse. Am I the only one NOT using bottle brushes?

Katzalia · July 2014

All the parts are a PITA, true, but our LO does so much better with them it's worth it. To make my life easier, I have a big bowl of soapy water I put all the parts in after every feeding, and then assembly-line wash them in really hot soapy water once or twice a day. The tiny brush that comes with them is really helpful too. I'll join the bad mama's club and admit I don't sanitize.

apinkpelican · July 2014

We put them in a dishwasher basket

gutsysneakers · July 2014

Dishwasher basket. We don't do a bottle every day so they are usually clean when I need them. When we visited the inlaws and didn't bring the basket, I used hot water and soap the best I could.

demofea01 · July 2014

Dishwasher. I wouldn't use Dr. Browns if I had to hand wash all those damn parts.

Nikkipal82 · July 2014

My dishwasher basket has straw holders (munchkin), so I put the blue part in that, and the other parts in the basket-- works great!

Helmink0804 · July 2014

I've put them in the dishwasher at first and than the tube lids were coming out with black stuff inside. I also noticed it in some of the blue tubes. I fill the bottles up with hot soapy water and put the tubes back in and the nipples on and let them sit for awhile. I fill up a bowl with hot soapy water after I fill up the bottles and let them sit but I still notice I get the black stuff so I use a QTips to clean them. She's not bottle picky- we have dr brown, tommee tippee bottles and one avent.

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