do bottles need sterilising at 11 months?

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any thoughts appreciated!

i would have thought that given that they eat dirt at this age when crawling, then a clean bottle would be ok?!

and if they take milk from a beaker then surely you don't need to sterilise that either?!

I stopped at 6 months, my reasoning being they are putting toys and allsorts in their mouths st this age, I think you will be ok to stop now!

I believe the official line is "Yes" but I think you will probably get an even split on responses here.

That wasn't really much help was it!!

My ds is 11 months and I stopped sterilising when he was 5 months He was already rolling over by then getting himself into allsorts of things and it just doesn't seem worth sterilising then. I think you right that by 11 months they eat allsorts of things even in the cleanest house so it's a bit of a waste of time IMO

thanks all! i did read somewhere that you should sterilise where milk is concerned as it's more likely for bacteria to breed in it than other places.....

glad to hears yours have survived!