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« on: January 16, 2006, 02:49:25 am »
hi everyone :D . My DS is 11 WO and well... i obviously sterilize everything for him, but just wondering when do the little guys have enough defenses to stop needing sterilized bottles and nipples and stuff? :lol:
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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2006, 04:15:17 am »
I was told 3 months, but I think its when your LO is able to get everything (especially their hands) into their mouths. Then its just pointless.
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2006, 04:18:44 am »
I sterilized until around 2 mos.  I just read something in Parent (or Parenting, I forget which) Magazine that said that you only need to sterilize the first time you use new bottles.  Then, dishwasher or handwashing with hot water is fine.   Not sure if anyone else read that article....   :?
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2006, 04:32:48 am »
Here in Australia, they recommend sterilising until 1year, as bacteria grows pretty quickly in the formula.
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2006, 05:08:51 am »
i just stopped regularly sterilizing everything and dd is six months.  still, once a week i do everything just to be safe.
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« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2006, 05:13:25 am »
I still sterilise everything - but like Kate said we are told to do so until 12 months.
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« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2006, 06:52:16 am »
Here in the UK they say to sterislise all bottles till at least 12 months too
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« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2006, 08:43:34 am »
katet, you know what they told me at the hospital (Perth)? Don't sterilise the bottles when you get home :shock:  :shock:  :shock: Yep, that's right, just sterilise them before use and wash them with hot soapy water, then rinse thoroughly. Needless to say, I sterilised the bottles up to six months! It probably wouldn't do any harm though but I didn't want to find out the hard way.
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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2006, 09:37:53 am »
In Australia we are told to steralise until they are 12 months.  It's better to be safe than sorry.

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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2006, 09:52:23 am »
I only sterilized bottles/teats the first time I used them and then just put them in the dishwasher on a high temperature. My bub is now almost 6 months and I don't even do that now. The literature I read advised that if you have clean, drinkable town water, then there should be no need to sterlize, and I just ran with that.

I personally think there is too much emphasis on anti-bacterial this, germ free that, that really we're raising our kids to be so germ phobic that if there were to ever be an outbreak of some sort (disease or otherwise), it's those kids who have constantly had things sterlized and have never been exposed to germs, that will suffer most. You have to build up their immunity somehow.

Having said that, I think if you take the route of non-sterlization, you should keep an eye out to make sure your LO copes with it ok. I can't say I've ever had any problems.
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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2006, 10:10:27 am »
Quote from: damara
I personally think there is too much emphasis on anti-bacterial this, germ free that, that really we're raising our kids to be so germ phobic that if there were to ever be an outbreak of some sort (disease or otherwise), it's those kids who have constantly had things sterlized and have never been exposed to germs, that will suffer most. You have to build up their immunity somehow.

Having worked in Immunology for 20 years I'd agree... BUT there is a difference between bacteria that can grow very rapidly in formula (high sugar content) & cause gastroenteritis & can be fatal to a baby & viruses like colds & germs around the place that build up immunity.

I personally only sterilised for ds#1 when I was doing ebm that was being taken out of the house & with ds#2 I don't at all as I express & use straight away... if I was storing or using at a later time, I would still sterilise, simply because I know what having a baby with gastro is like (older brother's fingers in mouth was the cause :( ) & how quickly they deteriorate.

If you make up the formula & water & use it immediately then it is fine, but if you have bottles with even the water sitting in it for periods, even the minutest amounts of milk not scrubbed out can grow bacteria in water, so that is why sterilisation is recommended until the immune system is "well developed"
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2006, 15:41:19 pm »
thank you all for the replies :D , i will keep that in mind.
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« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2006, 17:20:25 pm »
I read in a parenting magazine that you should sterilize until baby starts eating solids, because by then they're getting stuff into their system anyway. That's what I did with dd#1, sterilised about once a week, or if for some reason I hadn't been able to wash the bottle after the feed.

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« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2006, 17:45:21 pm »
Katie's doc said wash and boil before using the first time and then just wash thereafter unless you have reason to re-steralize.  Also told us that we didn't need to boil her bottle water either since we are on a municipal water system.  If you are on a well, you might want to reconsider.  What does your doc say?

PS:  We use Playtex disposable liner system, so each "bottle" has a new, clean liner, but I handwash the nipples in hot soapy water as I didn't find they were coming clean in the dishwasher.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2006, 17:55:08 pm »
I am the same; dishwasher only. For the first two months I rinsed with boiling water but after that I stopped even doing that.
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