Dr Brown's bottles - how do you assemble without touching them??

[oysterpots]

I've just got all the bits out of the steriliser for the first time and am trying to fit the two extra bits for anti-colic together but finding it impossible only touching them with a pair of tongs!

How on earth do you do it?

Leave them until they are cooler, then use your hands.

As long as you wash your hands well (and rinse under running water), then you will be fine.

We don't breastfeed from sterilised nipples, do we?

Its fine to use your hands as long as they are clean. I may stand corrected if anyone knows more, but I thought sterilizing was to make sure traces of milk had been removed thoroughly rather than human hand prints IYSWIM.

I did the same as clumsymum - it's impossible with tongs.

Agree, use your hands after a good wash.

There's actuay a lot of debate about whether sterilising is really necessary...

I know, but I still can't bring myself not to sterilise dd's bottles, which is ridiculous because I don't sterilise her bowls or spoons

dido. DD uses Dr. Browns and I'd just wash hand and put them together....I mean you use your hands around them all day, and even put your fingers in thier mouth...I'm sure a few fibgerprints wont cause a pick of bother for your little one.
:D

I think I stopped steriising at all somewhere around 5 - 6 months. I reasoned that
a) I didn't sterilise spoons and bowls
b) The dishwasher washes things very well, and finishes with a very hot drying cycle.

Never caused us a problem

you cant, just wash your hands and use them when cool.

What Nemo said!

I use the dishwasher. Is washing up in hot water OK, I use water hot enough so that it is bordering on uncomfortable even with rubber gloves.

Ok, will just use clean hands.

Would that still be ok to use in bottles I fill with boiled water and store in the fridge until I need them? I want to use the bottles for night feeds so don't really want to have to put the steriliser on in the night - much handier to hve them already assembled.

Do they work by the way?

I realise this thread is old now, but to answer your last question, oysterpots, we use the Dr Brown bottles for night-feeds with no problems. We sterilise and put together with clean hands then fill with water and don't refrigerate. Then we just take the bottles upstairs and add the powder as and when DS needs a feed - no need to warm the bottles that way.