Sterilising bottles/boiling water
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Topic: Sterilising bottles/boiling water
Posted By: Mikaela
Subject: Sterilising bottles/boiling water
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 4:50pm
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Since we seem to be having a formula theme today, here's another question:
At what age can/do you stop sterilising bottles and using cooled boiled water (as opposed to water straight out of the tap)? ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com"> 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 5:24pm
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From memory it's 6 months but could be 4!!! Sorry preggy brain. We sterilised bottles & used cooled boiled water for Gina until she was 10 months old and putting all sorts of things in her mouth! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 5:28pm
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pLUNKET SAY 3 MONTHS FOR BOTH UNLESS YOU ARE ON BORE OR RIVER WATER IN WHICH CASE IT IS 18 MONTHS i THINK FOR TAP WATER - HAVING SAID THAT I STILL USE COLLED BOILED WATER FROM THE KETTLE IF THERE IS ANY AND STERILISED UP TO 6 MONTHS
(OOPS SORRY fAY JUST HIT CAPS LOCK) ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 5:29pm
| We stopped once everything went into Daniels mouth, we still clean them and pop them through the dishwasher but figured if everything else that isn't sterilised is going in his mouth why will it matter if his bottles aren't. We stopped at about 4 months |
Posted By: BabyKiwi
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 5:34pm
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DD is 4.5 months and we still sterilise her bottles but I had been thinking the same thing about how long for. We don't use tap water (our water has rust in it!) so we use the Signature range 10L water carton.
I guess it's a personal choice, I know people that have sterilised all the way through till 1 year old and others till they start putting things in their mouths! Personally if they are putting things in their mouth they are being subjected to a few bugs therefore she doesn't need anymore, hence the reason I'm still sterilising!! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 6:33pm
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I've just stopped sterilising. His bottles go into the d/w every morning. I boil a jug of water each night and then use that water for the rest of the next day.
------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 7:36pm
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I stopped sterilising the bottles at about 4 months but make sure I rinse them in v.hot water. I still use cooled boiled water and I think I will do for a long time, we have a kettle that reheats the water to a temp for bottles so that makes it ideal for us.(as Spencer likes his bottles warm, and point blank refuses to drink if it is half a degree cooler than is his liking...lol) ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 24 January 2008 at 7:38pm
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I don't sterlise Ella's bottles (never had to before, as she never drank from a bottle until she was 6 1/2 months) and have only this week stopped giving her cooled boiled water- she didn't seem to notice the difference ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 25 January 2008 at 7:26am
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We stopped steralising at around 6 months and everything went through the dishwasher...we did still use cooled boiled water though unless we didn't have any on hand then we did use plain tap water. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 25 January 2008 at 9:20am
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I stopped sterilising between 3-4 months as everything was going in his mouth by 3 months - the bottles/expressing equipment still went through the dishwater and then I rinsed them in hot water before use. I used cooled boiled water til he was 6 months (only had the odd bottle of formula from 5 months) and now I use it if its in the jug and cooled, otherwise I use tap water.
Theres very little chance of any bugs still being left in the bottles once they've been through the dishwasher. I always wash anything with breastmilk/formula on before putting it in the dishwasher just to be sure. ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 25 January 2008 at 12:15pm
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I don't mind using tap water over jug water because I worked at the Councils water laboratory.
I know whats in Palmy's town supply and there's no bugs or anything in it so providing the tap is clean he's fine on it. Plus when I think of the water we use to get from the tap when I was a kid (really old tank water that had possums fall in it all the time) I really have no prob with tap water.. Plus most people don't clean out their jugs so using water out the jug can sometimes be worse because there's always the residue sitting around the sides 
And I've seen cultures grown from tap/jug/bottle water. I much prefer palmys tap water lol. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 January 2008 at 1:34pm
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I don't mind Palmy's water either and nor do my children. I sometimes use the jug to fill his bottle but usually it just comes out of the tap. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |