Rant on: What is the point of having a multi-bottle steam sterilizer?
As a new parent it sounded like a good idea at first.
So shortly after our DD was born, (the wife had some trouble initially breast feeding,) so we picked up one of those multi-bottle microwave steam sterilizers from Mothercare.
But as soon as we got it home we realize what the ---k is the point? Yes it can do multiple bottles at once and keep them all sterile for up to 24 hours.
But as soon as you open up the sterilizer to use one bottle, the other bottles are no longer in a sterile environment and so need to be use almost immediately or re-sterilized at another point.
Further formula bottles are no longer supposed to be made up and stored for later in the day. You've got to use it within an hour and then dispose.
So unless you've got multiple babies to feed at once, what the hell is the point of a multiple bottle microwave steam sterilizer?
Every time you need to do a feed you've got to run the microwave which isn't exactly efficient. That takes precious time when the baby is crying for milk. We quickly switched to cold sterilizing as it is ready to go when you need it. I guess the question is what's the point of these multi-steam systems? There just doesn't seem to be any valid use or reason other than to trick new parents into spending money for nothing. Why not just have one smaller space saving efficient bottle sterilizer rather than these larger multi bottle useless space wasters sitting in your kitchen. Rant over.
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Whats the point: multi-bottle steam sterilizer?
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Patopopo · 20/08/2011 03:28
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