What type of bottle steriliser is best?

[SandyR]

Hi, I am hoping to breast feed but want to express so that my DP can do some feeds, therefore assume we will need bottles and some sort of way of sterilising them. Can anyone tell me which type (microwavable/cold/hot) is best and recommend a make? It seems a minefield looking at all the options (we don't have loads of cash). I'm going to be a first time mum incase it wasn't obvious!
Thank you.

I've got a Tommee Tippee microwave steriliser that came with the pump, and it's really good, simple and easy to use.

I'd say it's good to have in the house too, my DS wouldn't latch on for a week so we had to feed him EBM from a cup. If I hadn't already had the pump (and bottles to attach to it, though we didn't use them to feed him at the time) and steriliser things would have been a lot harder - well, I simply wouldn't have been able to feed him!

I never bought a steriliser - we didn't have the space in the kitchen! We boiled in saucepan for 10 mins, as notcitrus said. Also, it was only one bottle a day until 6 months, then 4 bottles. We stopped faffing with sterilising at 9 months and just use the diswasher now. If space and money are an issue just boil in a pan!

have you seen this

what KATG said. Don't need one.

I sterilised with boiling water for the first 2 months as I never intended to bottle feed as his main feeding method, and it was fine for sterilising 2-3 small bottles a day. Just wash well, then put in a bowl and cover with boiling water for 10 mins, air dry on kitchen towel. They are obviously not kept sterile the way they are in a steam steriliser but if you put them in the fridge until you want to use them they should be fine. Once I started using bigger bottles and more of them I got an avent steam steriliser from freecycle. Works great, but doesn't fit all the bits in when you are using 6 big bottles so you have to run it twice.

I had the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature steam steriliser it's fab if you don't have alot of room. Very slim. It's £30 in Mothercare with 3 bottles which aregood for BF because of the shape.

You can also get the Cold Water/microwave one which is £14.99 in Argos with 2 bottles. If you have a fair sized microwaveI think it'd be great too, If I could do it all again I'd buy that and do cold water sterilising TBH just seems more convenient.

HTH a bit.