Can I sterilise bottles in my steamer?!

[Pesha]

My avent steriliser is broken, have bought new one from ebay but not arrived yet. Need to give dp couple of bottles this afternoon so he can take ds2 off for couple of hours. I would just do them in a pan but am prob going to bfing all afternoon and chances are Ill melt them or something ridiculous! Thought perhaps sticking them in my electric steamr for say 20 mins might work? No?

Ds2 is only 9 weeks btw so think sterilising prob still necessary.

you can boil for 10 minutes, or soak in milton

I wouldn't use a stemer but I would boil up som ewater and do them in a pan. Pour some boiling water into a box with a lid and then put the bottles on there.

I am selling Steri bottles for anyone else in this predicament.

Can't see why not! A steam steriliser IS a steamer so 10 min in it should be fine. I'm sure RTKangamummy will be along any minute in any case to tell you how unnecessary sterilising is anyway!

So can I just put them in boiling water, cover and leave off the heat or do they need to be left continually boiling for 10 mins?

I did think steamer was bit unlikely but would have been sooo much easier!

Why cant men learn to breast feed?! I'm sure they could if they really wanted to it's just laziness on their part!!

Ooo x posted (been doing that alot today!) So thats a possible yes for the steamer then?! Anymore opinions?

I remember reading some of a long thread before about not sterilising but that was in between babies and bottles so didnt take much notice

when i did mine that way, i kept the water boiling, also, if you can get hold of milton tablets, that is another way

theres actually no need to sterilise, in lots of countries inc. USA they dont sterilise

do you ahve a dishwasher? if you wash your bottles in the dishwasher they will be sterile

and my friend used to sterilise her bottles in her steamer (the plastic kind that went in the microwave)

I never had a steriliser, I just used my steamer. Put them on for 10 mins. I refused to buy something else that would steam bottles when I only used them about once a week and I had a perfectly good steamer in the cupboard.

Thanks all. I would try milton tablets but dp is taking all 3 kids off to visit grandparents straight after school (I'm so excited at prospect of uninterrupted sleep without a baby in my armpit!!) and I wont get chance to go out and buy stuff before then.

Dont have a dishwasher otherwise would probably not bother sterilising at all.

Have just found rtkangas thread in my watched threads (from 2 years ago ), not sure I'm quite confident enough to not doing anything except wash but think I will just put them in my steamer. I just know if i try boiling them I'll sit down to feed and forget all about them!

Milton stinks anyway!