Just wondering when everyone stops sterilising bottles? I have always done it till they stop having them but have heard that the health nurses are saying after 6months.
- I don’t see any point in sterilising once they start crawling. Kirsty
- Never started hot soapy water is enough. Jessica
- I sterilised until 12 months with my eldest two. Zoe
- I never sterilised. The WA hospitals tell you not to. Hot soapy water wash, rinse and air dry. Did that from birth. Bethanie
- Doesn’t really matter. Do it till you want to stop. Bianca
- I stopped sterilising once he started putting everything off the floor into his mouth… But I do still steraliser once a week (sometimes more) to stop the bottles getting a foul smell. Sheena
- No need to sterilise at all. Hot soapy water is enough. Mardi
- I stopped at 6mths just did hot soapy water and then rinsed in fresh hot water and air dried. I still used boiled water till 12mths tho. Bo
- I just recently stopped and my baby is 8 months and now I just put them all in the dishwasher. Symone
- They just say to wash in warm/hot soapy water, rinse and drip dry. This is what I was told to do in the NICU unit and from birth. M’leigh
- With my fist 3 I sterilised till they were off them at 14 months but stopped at 5 months with my son, I was only sterilising when pumping but he fed so much that didn’t pump after then, he started on formula at 8 months and didn’t sterilise, just washed in hot soapy water, rinsed and air dried but still used boiling water so guess that helped too. I might also add that he is the only one of my 4 kids, who hasn’t been sick from early on, maybe his body built up immunity. Christine
- They are actually suggesting now to not worry about sterilising and to just wash and rinse. I sterillised with my first till he was 8mth with my second I stopped after 3mth as they put things in their mouth anyway and she had no problems. Vanessa
