How to sterilise a pump and bottles

[actino]

Hi. My Dd I'd 6 weeks old and EBF but we want to introduce an occasional bottle. I was given a tommee tipee menial brest pump and I purchased bottles for it.

My question is how should I go about sterilising these before using? I don't have the microwave sterilising box that comes with the pump or any other kind of steriliser and don't want to purchase anything right now.

[Mermaid36]

If you are just going to put breastmilk in them, a wash with hot soapy water and dry with a paper towel is totally fine

[Sugarcoma]

You can buy sterilizing bags from Boots, Amazon etc which you fill with a bit of water and the bits you want to sterilize then pop in the microwave for 3 mins. Super easy. Each bag can be reused around 20 times.

[Sugarcoma]

We used these: www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-AVENT-Microwave-Steam-Steriliser/dp/B00DUEFZK8?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[ICJump]

You don’t have to sterilise breastmilk equipment. As above hot soapy water is fine. If you wanted to you can boil all the parts in water

[nic14271213]

I washed mine in soapy water and would rinse with boiling water. Never had a problem.

[Spam88]

You can boil in a pan, just google to check how long you need to do it for.

[angelopal]

Milton cold water sterilising tablets. Just put one in cold water and done after 15mins.

[actino]

Thanks everyone. I sterilised the pump because it was given to me secondhand from a friend. It makes sense that everything doesn't always need to be sterilised, my boobs definitely aren't sterile!