Spots there is another thread somewhere, I hope this is the one that twiglett is referring to, where it's mentioned that in America they don't sterilise bottles at all. Another mumsnetter in America had a dd born prematurely and from the moment she was born none of her bottles were sterilised. In America they just put the bottles through the dishwasher and that's considered good enough.
I know a Dr wh has 3 kids and she's never sterilised anything and they're all fine.
with dd1 I sterilised her bottles until she was 1 but I didn't do anything else, didn't do dummies, well ok occasionally I did them, didn't do cutlery or plates when she started weaning. By the time they are picking things up off the floor and putting them in their mouths there doesn't always seem to be any point, although I plan on sticking to sterilising dd2's bottles until she's a year or at least nearly a year.
Dd2 also chews on her hands and dribbles a lot. Can this be considered a sign of teething? or is it just experimental?
Dd1 got her first 2 teeth through at the same time when she was 4 months old but I don't remember her chewing her hands or dribbling as much as dd2 does.
Dd2 has times when she's tired and I'm loathe to put her to bed because she still has another bottle to have and it's to short a time since the last bottle to feed her again. When she got her MenC on Monday she went to bed early and didn't have her bedtime bottle, I thought I'd just leave her and then feed her when she woke, fully expecting her to get up during the night starving but she didn't she slept right through. She usually has her last bottle at around 8pm and in bed by 9pm or sometimes 8.30pm. But from 7pm onwards she can be really whingey, but she has a bottle at 5pm so I don't want to feed her too soon. I guess it will sort itself out in time.
Had a great day today it was a lovely hot sunny day and I actually got to lie out on my sun lounger for the first time since I'd bought it It was bliss, dd2 was having a nap, dd1 was playing with her friend I just lay in the sun and relaxed. Will probably be the only proper day of summer that we get though.
I don't swaddle dd2 she goes to bed in a sleepsuit and has her blanket over her in one layer. She's still in her moses basket but is getting longer and I don't think she'll be in it for very much longer. Mind you it's not been as hot up here as it has in England, if it had been really really hot it might be different.