Teat tongs?

[HelenF35]

Does everyone use these? I didn't even know they existed! I've just been pulling the teats through with my thoroughly washed hands. Have i been doing wrong?

According to the instructions yes they should be used

I never did, as soon as the bottles are out the steriliser they are no longer sterling IMO

Sterile

I have never seen or even heard of such a thing. Don't suppose many people use them 'cod I've never seen in a shop

My Steriliser had them included

Meh, just use clean ish hands.

Glad it's not just me! I use bottles for ebm and I don't sterilise my boobs!

Mine came with the steriliser too but I've never used them

Never used them either.

In my neurotic pfb days I used them, then I got hold of myself and used my hands!

The sterilisation is only to kill off lingering milk bacteria. They don't have to be totally sterile after that iyswim.

Yes always used as they came with the steriliser. I used to sterilise them along with the bottles.

Babies, even newborns, suck their own hands so I see no reason why we can't use ours to pick a teat out of the steriliser.

I just used my clean hands too. If I'd been bottle feeding from birth I might have used them for the first 6 weeks or so.

You don't need to sterilise at all with expressed breast milk because it has antimicrobial properties or some such. Just wash thoroughly.

I religiously washed and sterilised the tongs along with the bottles for the entire first year.....but never actually used the tongs ONCE.

I used to pull the teat through before I started the steriliser, probably wrong but meh, never did my DC any harm.

Teat tongs were only invented to make parents feel guilty about one more thing IMO.

They're so much faff, you just use your hands and then feel guilty.