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What age did you stop sterilising bottles &/or using boiled water?

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lechatnoir · 07/03/2010 16:39

Title says it all really.....how old was your LO when you stopped sterilising their milk bottles and also stopped using cooled boiled water?
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Bleatblurt · 07/03/2010 16:43

I stopped sterlising about 5 minutes after I got home. Just cleaned them well in hot soapy water.

sarah293 · 07/03/2010 16:44

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debka · 07/03/2010 16:48

My DD was EBF till 6mo and I've never sterilised a bottle or boiled and cooled water... She is very healthy!

BertieBotts · 07/03/2010 16:51

You can feed tap water as a drink from 6 months, formula needs to be made up with hot water until you stop using formula.

Sterilising - I wouldn't bother if you are making the milk up fresh and using it all straight away. If not then I would sterilise until about a year, or until you go onto cow's milk (as again presumably you will be putting it into the bottle and feeding straight away)

abbierhodes · 07/03/2010 17:00

At about six months I started sterilising everything about once a week instead of every use.

farmerjones · 07/03/2010 17:01

lol, never sterilised with younger two. breastfed till 8 months, then just washed bottles
with ds1, sterilised till a year old

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