How long do you have to sterilise bottles for?

[mummytopebs]

Just that really. DD is nearly 9 months and her steriliser has just broke, do i need to buy another?

I wouldn't. By 6 or so months many babies are rolling around the floor licking shoes so I can imagine a clean but unsterilised bottle is likely to do much harm.

Apparently you don't need to sterilise at all.
But no, at this point, I'd not bother!

When dd1 was discharged from neonatal unit the instructions we were given were to wash all bottles/teats in very hot water with detergent, and air dry on a clean tea towel. If that's the advice they give out for small vulnerable newborns, I reckon your healthy 9month old baby should be fine.

I've never sterilised -- all the medics I know reckon putting stuff in the top drawer of a dishwasher on a hot program is plenty.

Never sterilised anything.

10m old (& 2.8yo)fit as a fiddle!

Brilliant thread by RTKangaMummy on here saying exactly what Agony Beetle said. Tiny preemies are being discharged with advice not to sterilise.

Free yourself!

I was anal about sterilising with my first until she was 1 and then stopped...I then realised what was the point, given she put everything under the sun in her mouth. My second one, needless to say didn't have the same sterile treatment, and seems to have lived to tell the tale, lol.

so long as her bottles/sippy cups etc are cleaned well so there is no milk residue on them at all, you don't need to sterilise. I stopped after i read Kangamummy's thread and it has been liberating. DD is 6 months btw.

I bought this drying rack to dry everything on and have put the steriliser away.

www.amazon.co.uk/Boon-Grass-Countertop-Drying-Product/dp/B0032G9E0G

No.
Dishwasher/thorough hot soapy water very well rinsed. You are fine. I stopped around this time.