If I have a dishwasher, do I need a steam sterilizer?

[nappynoonoo]

DH give DD one bottle of EBM in an evening to give me some time to myself. The pump and bottles and teats get rinsed, brushed washed in the dishwasher then rinsed and sterilized in the steam sterilizer.
DH seems to think that we don't need to sterilize them after they have been in the dishwasher. Is he right?

A health visitor would say you don't need to dishwash, but do need to sterilise.

Personally, I don't use a steriliser.

I wash in very hot soapy water, scrupulously remove all traces of milk and fatty deposits, rinse in very hot water and air dry on clean kitchen paper.

When I'm feeling lazy I rinse bottles and teats and bung in the dishwasher.

In the US everyone uses their dishwasher and it's hard to even find a steriliser.

If you do a search, you'll find threads about UCLH and how their micro-biologists recommend that babies leaving NICU do not have their bottles sterilised, but washed as I've described above.

SO I could realistically cut out the sterilization bit, if I rinse and dishwash the bottles, teats and pump.

You don't need a steriliser imo.

(wishes she could have afforded a dishwasher when the babies were tiny!)

I stopped sterilising quite early on and used my dishwasher after some Scandinavian friends laughed their arses off at me sterilising so scrupulously. If the bottles had dried in milk or were a bit rancid, I did as twelveyeargap did.

Well that makes things easier for me [lazy arse emoticon]

Mercy we got ours as a wedding pressie from my nice in-laws

DD2 is 19wks and i don't no why bother sterlizing her bottles as she rolls all over the carpet and i have only remembered to sterlise her dummies twice in all that time .

I think it;s the teats that can be nasty if they aren't quite clean - harbouring bacteria etc cos of the milk residue

I only recently stopped sterilising (ds is nearly 1 yr!), but thats mainly cos I used it as a storage place for when I had to get them out of the dishwasher, but couldnt be arsed to put any water in them. It used to get a bit full

Now I just stuffed a load in the cupboard, rinse after they have been dishwashed and use them.