Do you sterilize your bottles in a dishwasher once a week or every two?
How would you load them if you did? I am aware at the top, but are they truly cleaned up?
Update: Haha, I’m going to use the dishwasher. I’m too weary to reply to everyone, as you may have guessed, but I appreciate everyone’s assurance that it’s okay to do. This greatly simplifies life.
Nothing is worse than washing bottles at two in the morning, so I bought a ton of them so I would never have to wash another one by hand again. I cleaned after each cycle. It appeared as though they cleaned up. I’ve never experienced residual problems or anything like that. I’m going to repeat the process with my future child.
Our bottles were washed every day in the dishwasher. After she was about two months old, it had a sanitized cycle, which was sufficient for us.
Kiddo had reached term. I was exhausted from pumping exclusively.
A rinse aid can be added if the silicone components become foggy.
Do individuals hand-wash bottles? And as a follow-up, how do you find the time to manually wash bottles?
I was doing the hand washing of our twins’ bottles! It wasn’t enjoyable. I can now stop washing dishes by hand because we recently moved into a new home with a lovely dishwasher! That was plenty for seven months.
Yes, the secret to adjusting to life as a new parent is figuring out how to get robots to clean as much as possible.
I do but it’s just because I like to run my dishwasher on the “quick wash” cycle and that cycle doesn’t do so good with plastics. So… I just hand wash. I try to do a few whenever baby is sleeping.
Yes, the secret to adjusting to life as a new parent is figuring out how to get robots to clean as much as possible.
I only load the dishwasher with bottles when there are more than six left in the sink—roughly once a week!
However, I do feel like I’m washing them all the time
My mom purchased us a dishwasher for Christmas. The husband hasn’t installed it yet. By then, the child will have stopped using bottles.
At the moment, one goes through the nightly ritual while the other washes every bottle.