When can we stop sterlising bottles?

[Holymoly321]

DS2 has one bottle of formula a night - DH gives it as dream feed. DS2 is 5.5mths and just wondering when we can stop sterlising the bottle.

i stopped sterilisong every day when DS turned one...i did it every few days for a couple of months after his birthday...then finally once a week

I think the advice is to stop at 1 year, but from six months when they start eating solids you can be a bit less rigid about it.

the reason for it is that milk can grow some pretty vicious bacteria, I think.

Now, this minute, immediatley

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If you are cleaning it in a dishwasher, you can stop now.

My NCT antenatal class teacher said "When they start chewing the wheels of the pushchair, it becomes a bit pointless to sterilise really". Which is pretty reasonable really. However if the bottles are being used to carry milk around in for long periods, I suppose you'd have to dishwash them to make they're heated enough to kill off any residual bacteria.

the guidelines are to make up bottles fresh every time now anyway