Sterilising & boiled water

We still sterilise all of Caitlin's bottles and teats etc but not her solids stuff (spoon, bowl etc) and still make her bottles up with cooled boiled water.

Does everone else still do this?

I saw a lady today make her baby's bottle up using hot tap water (baby would have been around Caitlin's age I'm guessing)

Plunket line told me that after 3 months there's no need to sterilise anymore. They said that just going through the dishwasher was enough.
They did say to keep using cool boiled water until....ummm *can't remember*....

We are on tank water, so I still sterilise her bottles and used c.b water. I think they said that when on tank water, you need to use c.b water until 18 months (or something like that)... my memory went out with the rubbish about...hmmm....5 1/2 months ago!!!!

i stopped at about 4-6 months (put them in the dishwasher) and just used filtered water

Yip bottles go in the dishwasher but I do still use boiled water and probably will until she is one or so.

I am a bit dum....which some have worked out.

I do not sterilise his bottles just wash in normal tap water and then rinse with tap water. Plunket told me at 3 months not to bother then at 5 months Karitane also said not to bother. They also said I do not need to use boiled water anymore....here is the dum thing I still do even though I only wash his bottles in normal tap water. (although last week only used tap water out of jug thinking it had boiled but SIL had unplugged it )

 

 

I stopped sterilising haleighs bottles at 3months but i still rinsed them in boiling water before i used them up until she was 11months, i always mixed her formula with cooled boiled water, i only started giving her tap water at 12months, but if we werent in wellingon and still in motueka i would still be boiling it for her.
I thought you ahd to mix formula with boiled water? it says to on the back of the tin?? oh well Id still mix it with boiled water no matter the age.

I think it depends on your local drinking water whether you should keep boiling or not, we only had to in motueka because it was boar water so there was no way we were even drinking it straight form the tap ourselves, we weretold to call the council to check the quality of the drinking water in the area before giving it unboiled.

I still sterilise .. just seems easy and makes sure everything is really clean. Just use filtered water.

I just run a sink of warm soapy water and rinse them and scrub with the bottle/teat brush, then chuck them in the microwave steriliser.
So pretty much what you do

We still sterilize, but only because we've got nowhere else to put Ashlee's bottles! So to keep them in the sterilizer, hidden away in the microwave is neater than having the big bulky thing on the bench (and you've seen our kitchen, it's tiny!!!). If we had somewhere else to put the bottles, I don't think we'd be sterlizing anymore.

We've always got water in our jug, too so we use that to make up the bottles/cups. I don't hesitate to use tap water for her cups though, but I only tend to do it if the water from the jug is way too hot. I wouldn't be able to bring myself to make her bottles with tap water.