How to sterilise a pump and bottles

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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.

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

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.

We used these: www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-AVENT-Microwave-Steam-Steriliser/dp/B00DUEFZK8

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

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

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

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

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!