Do you sterilise your feeding bowls and storage bowls ?

[Ruthiebaby]

My DS is 5 mths old and we've just started weaning.

I always sterilise my ds feeding bowls & spoons before he uses them. Is this necessary ?

Should I also be sterilising all the stuff I use to freeze the food in and heat it up in ?

[emmatmg]

I steralise Ds1 spoons and bowls about twice when i weaned him and realised what a faff it was.

Didn't bother again and never did with ds2+3

[ja9]

I don't think so - i didnt. i think its only important that you keep sterilising bottles and teats that have had milk in them.

[Twiglett]

of course not

[Twiglett]

sorry didn't mean to sound all knowledgeable just meant to give you a straightforward answer

should have said .. no need

[jibberjabber]

I never did. I used hot soapy water, air dried on kitchen towel. Blimey with the amount of food I used to make (DS would not eat from a a jar unfortunately ) I never would of left the house if I had done all that!

[collision]

No and as soon as they start picking things up and putting them in their mouths, sterilising is a complete waste of time.

Did bottles for a while with ds1 and hardly anything with ds2.

[Ruthiebaby]

Ok - well this makes my life much easier !!!

Thanks

[aloha]

No, just wash them well in hot soapy water or the dishwasher.

[frogs]

Check out this thread .

[fishfinger]

er no

[Ruthiebaby]

Ack - I thought you had to sterilise everything and I went and gave these bowls I bought to the cat for her food as they said you couldn't sterilise in a microwave.

Doh

[alison222]

I did for my first and then after watching what was going in his mouth non foodwise soon stopped.
Cant remember for DD - probably not - only the bottles that she didn't ever take.

[GetMakosiorVanessaorOrlaithOut]

Never ever sterilised bowls or spoons, only bottles

[fsmail]

Only every did bottles. They need some germs to be healthy

[biglips]

i stopped sterilising when DD turned 7 months (recommend 6 months though but i forgot she turned 7 months!! time flies by)