When did you stop sterilising bottles?

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Sorry if you’ve seen this twice, I realised this may be the better category.

I’m just curious when people decided to stop sterilising? I know guidelines are to stop once they turn one but I’ve spoken to loads of people who stopped as soon as LO crawled.

I’m still sterilising, DS is 10 months today. He crawls around, puts whatever he can in his mouth (his new favourite is pulling every shoe off the rack and having a taste) obviously I stop this but it happens!

As I write this he is trying to pull my slipper off and if I give in, it goes straight in the mouth 😂

I know you can still sterilise the formula with the hot shot so wondering if people did this?

I’m curious as if he’s licking shoes, floors, windows and baubles, would stopping sterilising bottles make a difference?

Again, I’m not saying this is right or wrong I’m just wondering what other parents did.

I can't remember when I stopped with DD, but I'm still sterilising at 9 months with DS.... and I just found him eating a leaf he found in the floor of the hall so now I'm questioning my sanity in doing so 😆😆

Can you put teats in the dishwasher?

I think I stopped at about 6 months when weaning. Bottles gone by 10 months and replaced with munchkin cups

Neither of them had any issues. We weaned from 6 months and you don’t sterilise spoons or plates do you so why sterilise bottles? It’s also recommended to use a sippy cup after 6 months anyway.

Neither of them had any issues. We weaned from 6 months and you don’t sterilise spoons or plates do you so why sterilise bottles? It’s also recommended to use a sippy cup after 6 months anyway.

You sterilise bottles because of the formula.

It's not the bottles themselves that are the problem. It's the formula milk, hence not needing to sterilise spoons or plates.