Sterilising a Dr Browns baby bottle

[popegregory]

We're on holiday and the microwave is too small for the sterilising kit. Whilst I'm sat here waiting to go and enquire about a new microwave, riddle me this: if the steriliser is steam based and cleans that way, will these bottles be alright (and also sterile), if I stick them in the kettle and boil it...?

[The_Doc]

popegregory said:

We're on holiday and the microwave is too small for the sterilising kit. Whilst I'm sat here waiting to go and enquire about a new microwave, riddle me this: if the steriliser is steam based and cleans that way, will these bottles be alright (and also sterile), if I stick them in the kettle and boil it...?

The element at the bottom will melt something

Boil the whole caboodle in a pan for 5 mins if you need to.

We gave up sterilising bottles a while ago. The kids sit on the floor picking dust up and eating it and you worry about sterility of bottles...

[SSC!]

Are you anywhere near a shop I.e boots and the like that might sell Milton liquid. How old is the baby? Think I stopped sterilising bottles when I put my one on normal milk. Not recommended if you have a wee toot however.

[Tiggsy]

4 kids...never sterilized anything.

as has been said - the amount of crap they pick off the floor whats the point!

[Revisitph]

Agree with the above. Our 3 children never had sterilised bottles when they moved from the nipple (which, along with their baby fingers popping in and out of their mouths, is covered in bacteria). We used to wash up the bottles like other crockery and cutlery and make sure they dried reasonably quickly - damp places allow bacteria to grow far more easily. Water borne / faecal/oral disease is a major killer of babies in some countries, usually in the context of poor sanitation and unsafe water supplies. It isn't in the UK, but that's not because some parents sterilise baby bottles.

Don't worry and free yourself from the tyranny of sterilisers!

[chonok]

We always use the Milton sterilising tablets when away.

Just chuck them in cold water and leave - job jobbed

Surely there must be somewhere nearby that sells these..

[ascayman]

We never bothered with sterilising just chucked them in the dishwasher. Both kids are still alive, one is a bit mental though now I think about it.