Sterilising bottles of cow's milk after 1 yo?

[Tinkjon]

DS is one this week and I know he should be on sippy cups now but he's not - he is some of the time but not all the time. We're moving (moo-ving? ) to cow's milk in the next few days, so do I still need to sterilise his bottles? I don't bother sterilising his cups but I seem to recall that teats need to be sterilised until 1yo?

I know that you don't really need to sterilise if you wash ultra-carefully but I always have done anyway (it's so quick and easy to do once the bottles are cleaned, so I figured why not?) But for those of who who did sterilise - did you stop after a year? (Or is my DS the only baby having cow's milk from a bottle at this age?!)

i stopped once they started picking stuff up off the floor and eating it!

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Nothing got sterilised in our house after 6months!!

dd is one and on bottles of cows mikk three times a day she barely sips water from her sippy cup and when i tried to give her cows milk from it she handed it back with a
... what on earth is milk doing in there face..

enough off tangent it was a joy two weeks to pack up the steriliser and i just wash her bottles and teats well don't even have a dishwasher

I am trying to get rid of bottles, but we have settling-to-sleep issues. A bottle really helps him to fall asleep and, whilst 'm working on that, I don't really have the energy to deal with it at the moment.

It's confusing - half the research says don't bother sterilising anything after 1 year and the other half says do bottles & teats for as long as they're used.

I used the bottles with the toddler spouts for awhile, before my DS got the hang of the sippy cup this is what i am talking about!!