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How to sterilise dummies, bottles in a NY hotel?

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vava · 03/02/2006 09:45

We think of going to NY in a few weeks...my 4 & 1/2 old baby is really dependent on dummies, how can I sterilise them in a hotel room if there is no microwave, steriliser etc?
Heard about steri bottles but don't know if he will drink from them, he's quite fussy. Tried once milton steriling liquid but it gave a horrible smell to the milk and he did not like it much. Also, not sure I could use the bathroom tap water for that. How can I sterilise bottles there? Any tips? Let me know, I am quite stressed about going there due to the logistic!

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Enid · 03/02/2006 09:46

dont bother sterilising

compo · 03/02/2006 09:46

I think it would be fine to just pour boiling water over the teat of the dummy.

cathyspam · 03/02/2006 09:46

get lindam microwave sterilising bags and ask to use the kitchem microwave - sure they will let you.

alexsmum · 03/02/2006 09:47

get a little electric travel steriliser.they take two bottles at a time and you just plug them in-take an adapter.put dummies in top section.should be able to get one in mothercare.

alexsmum · 03/02/2006 09:48

yes-you will probably have tea/coffee making facilities in your room.just put dummy in a cup and pour boiling water over-leave for 5 mins.

chicagomum · 03/02/2006 09:49

Take the microwave sterilising bags (you can buy from Boots/Mothercare) and when you book into the hotel speak to them at reception, they should be able to arrange for the kitchen to sort it out for you.

flutterbee · 03/02/2006 09:50

If I have read your post right and your ds is 4 and a half then you have no beed to be sterilising at all.

alexsmum · 03/02/2006 09:51

as she says baby i thought she meant 4.5 months?

NotQuiteCockney · 03/02/2006 09:52

Apparently sterilising isn't really necessary, anyway. RTKangaMum is always posting threads about it. If he's not immunocompromised, I'd just pour freshly boiled water over things, and use them that way.

Enid · 03/02/2006 09:52

honestly I wouldnt bother sterilising

just wash it if it gets filthy or buy a new one!

flutterbee · 03/02/2006 09:55

Yeah I thought it was probably the way I was reading it

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vava · 03/02/2006 10:03

yes, he's 4 & 1/2 mths...I am using mineral water or cartons of formula milk anyway but I wouldn't wash bottles in the bathroom...even if I boil the bathroom tap water to clean the bottles, do u think it's enough? have lindam bags but not sure to be able to use the kitchen microwave in a business hotel... maybeok to I buy a travel steriliser, didn't know about them...

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NotQuiteCockney · 03/02/2006 10:06

The bathroom tap water in a hotel will be the same as kitchen tap water. Boiled tap water to rinse things will be fine. Boiled tap water to make up bottles would be fine, too.

tortoiseshell · 03/02/2006 10:11

I've used bags with little tablets in them to sterilise in cold water when I've been away. Otherwise, just wash them really thoroughly.

swedishmum · 03/02/2006 10:24

My travel steriliser didn't work in the Bahamas - was v slow due to voltage and I guess NY would be the same. They are FANTASTIC for Europe though. I used steribags from Mothercare when we went to NY and bought a big bottle of Nursery Water (abt 5 litres) from drug store and rinsed sterilised bottles out in that . The tap water just smells so chlorine-ish. Dd3 was only 5.5 weeks at the time and she was absolutely fine.

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vava · 03/02/2006 10:28

Hi Swedishmum...how do use steribags? is that like lidham bags? What is nursery water? mineral water? so u didn't use tap water at all? Which mineral water did u use to prepare the milk?
What about the flight, airport etc...how did u do? and dummies, did u use any? thnk u..

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calpopscalum · 04/02/2006 12:43

I wouldn' use mineral water to amake up the bottles though - too high mineral content of things babies shouldn't have apparently! I asked my GP about tihs and he said to always use boiled, cooled tap water and NEVER bottled water. Suppose babies in NY are doing OK on the tap water!!
I'd just rinse the bottles and teats out in boiling water. Was too scared for ds and lugged sterilising things with us, much more realxed with dd and she had non sterilised things and is much healthier and hardy!!

GDG · 04/02/2006 12:52

I would do as everyone else suggested - just pour boiling water over the dummy (or sit in a cup of boiled water for a few mins). For making up bottles, I'd just wash them in hot water as usual and then maybe pour boiling water over them.

I would just use the tap water boiled to make up bottles.

waterfalls · 04/02/2006 13:25

Even bottled water has to be boiled, save your money, boil the water in the tap.

LIZS · 04/02/2006 14:18

Sterilising bags have a measured tablet to which you add cold tap water up to a certain level. Good for 24 hrs then throw away. No taint to the milk ime. We've used them in hotels and on canal boats and sure bathroom water will be fine. How about asking the hotel for a kettle ?

swedishmum · 04/02/2006 16:16

The problem I find with NY water is the chlorine - it really smells. The hotel may have a kettle but most only use coffee makers these days even for tea. The hotel brought me boiled water but it was in a coffee flask and smelled of coffee! Some bottled waters are high in minerals but others are safer. I'd prefer this to chlorine water. The nursery water was from the drug store and I rinsed everything out in it to get rid of the smell.

Coolmama · 04/02/2006 21:27

Depends on how long you are going for, but you can buy a kettle in the states for very little - that way you can boil away to your heart's content and won't have to worry aobut anything at all -

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