Drops of milton or water in breastmilk

[PurpleCurtain]

DH watched me put the lid on the milk bottle after I expressed this evening - lid was in our milton steriliser bucket. I washed my hands but didn't dry them (as I figured I'd be touching a wet-with-milton thing anyway, and always conscious hand towels could be germy), grabbed the lid out of the bucket and shook it really hard. The topless bottle of milk was next to me.

My husband is concerned that this shaking motion caused droplets to land inside the breastmilk bottle, and that they are either:
a) drops of milton
b) drops of warm tap water from my hands, which wouldn't be sterile.

He thinks this milk needs discarding (and that I need to dry my hands on a towel and shake the milton off further away from the milk bottle in future). Do I actually need to throw it away? We were hoping to use it tomorrow evening so I could nip out!

Wow. He’s far too worried about this; it’ll be fine. I’m guessing first baby and a bit anxious? We’ve all been there!

I didn't breastfeed personally but was always told you don't need to sterilise anything (bottles etc) when using breast milk so shouldn't be a problem

You don't need to throw it away - the milk will be absolutely fine, drops of Milton or tap water will go no harm at all to your baby.

This is the first baby right.

When you wash her in the bath, do you carefully make sure not one step of liquid goes near her mouth? Probably not.

If Milton was arsenic for babies it would hardly be used to sterilise bottles, many people don't even wash it off!

I breastfed. The first thing I was told by the midwife is that the NHS bottle sterilizing advice is not needed when you don’t use formula. We used to just pop the bottles in the dishwasher.

It's fine you don't even need to sterilise for breastmilk.