How do you sterilise bottles at a hotel?

[MrsPurr]

Going to a wedding for a weekend in a couple of weeks and staying in a hotel. Won't have access to a microwave for our steriliser.

Is there an easy way of sterilising bottles? DS will be 5 months -- could I get away with just washing them up in hot water?

can it be used as a cold water steriliser?

Sterilizing tablets?

I used a cold water sterliser with milton tablets when we did something similar when DD was 6 months old.

Our room didn't have a kettle, so it could be worth taking a travel one with you just in case.

Otherwise you can buy one-use sterlised bottles, but they aren't cheap or particularly environmentally friendly.

Have a lovely time away

Boots do disposable bottles which we found really useful, you can also get treavel sterilising packs from Mothercare and BOots, that and cartons of mil worked great for us whenever we had to go away.

yep take a washing-up bowl and some Milton tablets

Or, just don't bother sterilising? I never did with DS2. I pretty much sterilised everything that DS1 touched, down to his spoons and bowls once weaned!

www.boots.com/en/Boots-Disposable-Steriliser-Bags-7Pack_25755/?CAWELAID=334489205&cm_mmc=Shopping%20 Engines--Google%20Base----_-Boots%20Disposable%20Steriliser%20Bags%207Packthis is what you need. Hang over bath taps and pop a few bottles in. Works a treat.

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WOW thanks folks, this is completely brilliant. Sterilising tablets! Disposable bottles! It's a whole new world of wonder! And of course, a kettle. Duh. My baby brain gets worse and worse...!

Ice cream container or similar plastic container, just make sure you can immerse bottle in it when it's full of water, sterilising tabs and hey presto cold water steriliser.

You don't need to sterilize, not for a healthy 5 month old infant.

I thought that was a common knowledge by now?

The hotel might put a microwave in your room if you ask in advance.

I've used the big sterilising bags on holiday and found them pretty good.

I think sterilising while away from home is a good idea because washing up facilities won't be quite what they are at home, certainly no access to a dishwasher in a hotel room.

Boots and ASDA sell packs of 12 bottles filled with SMA milk thats all clean and you chuck em away after.

I was thinking of getting them for when I give birth as I will not have to worry about clean bottles in the hospital, they are expensive £15 a box.

Just don't bother sterilising.

Hot soapy water, rinse, leave to air dry.

This is FINE.

Sterilising is a con designed to make us spend money on useless products.

Sterilising tablets and your own clean bowl seems easiest, as most people say, and I would add that it may also be easiest to use Evian water from the bottle as the water for milk. I was told by hv that that's the most suitable and neutral mineral water, and then you have no need to worry about quality of tap water. Also means you can have a plentiful and ready supply rather than having to boil and cool water from a possibly unclean kettle. I am a bit cautious about all this, even with ds at 19mths. What's the harm?!

I thought you got those little bottles of formula free at the hospital?

but the OPs baby is 5 months, so she can hardly go back to the ward for them !

at 5 months, i would probably not be too worried, as long as coul dwash the bottles wiht hot soapy water

if you are concenred, then cold water sterilising, cartons of ready made formula or diposable bottles are your best bet

sorry, nannyj ! i see you were responding to ryoko

I have no idea it probably depends on the hospital, they haven't said anything to me about it yet, when I toured the ward there was a tea and coffee station in the hallway with a half made bottle of milk on it, so I assumed people did it themselves.

when someone from my other half's work gave birth and asked for milk they said they didn't provide it and she had to get a relative to bring in milk and bottles, not sure which hospital she was in.