When can I put bottles etc in the dishwasher?

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I've been looking online and can't find much info.
Is it ok to put baby bottles, cutlery etc in the dishwasher?

DD is 1 and I've stopped sterilizing but is it safe to use the dishwasher instead of hand washing?

It should be safe enough but it can turn the bottles orange if any crockery with tomato based sauces are in there too. It also takes a lot longer than hand washing

I did it when I stopped using the steriliser

Yes it's fine. We did from day 1. We washed in the dishwasher and then sterilised. But we never sterilised cutlery.

You can bung everything in quite safely.

Following because I thought you had to stop bottles at 1 x

Ideally you should phase out bottles around age 1

You don't have to phase bottles out by 1. It's recccomended for a few reasons but if you are brushing their teeth after they've had milk in the mornings and evenings, kids much older can have bottles.

There's not many 'shoulds' or 'have to's' with kids! I mean, you have to feed them and wipe their bum for them, other than that... Go with your gut!

Yes apparently now off all bottles at 1.
HV was out for one year check and asked I said still 2 a day which for the minute I'm reluctant to stop sometimes DD doesn't eat much as her teeth are causing a terrible time.

HV said I live in the real world so that's fine but after 15 months is when they start refusing to let the bottle go... I'm deff getting rid of them before this.

Thanks for the replies I'm lazy and sick of constantly hand washing everything!!

My dd is 7 months and I don't sterilise anymore, my hv said you don't sterilise after 6 months.

You can baskets especially for bunging all the bottle parts in and putting in the dishwasher

I stopped sterilising at about 1 when he went down to 1 bottle and just handwashed it all. He came off that at about 14 months. I never sterilised cutlery, that all got chucked in the dishwasher.

Yes, it's fine, the dishwasher cleans them much better and in much hotter water than hand washing. Just beware though, as a previous poster said... they have a habit of turning orange if you bing them in with the spaghetti bolognese plates!

I did from day one, but only when the other dishes weren't tomato based - they will all turn orange! Stopped steam sterilising around 6 months and will cold water sterilise if I need to (e.g. when travelling).

My DS2 is almost 1 and we won't be stopping a bottle just yet. With DS1 I think we stopped giving him milk in a baby bottle around 18 months, but he is 3.5 and STILL has a cup of milk morning and bedtime! Not sure if we'll ever give up that habit!

We started putting them in the dishwasher when we stopped using powder formula as we stopped sterilising then. DD will have been about 13 months.

I dishwashered and sterilised from the beginning and stopped sterilising at 11 months when she stopped formula under the guidance of a paediatric dietitian. She only had the occasional bottle overnight for the next couple of nights.