Steriliser?

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I'm 32 weeks pregnant and looking to buy a steriliser. I can't decide between an electric or a microwave one. Can anyone recommend which one to buy?

This time round I've bought a cold water steriliser, I had a microwave steriliser last time and it was a bit of a faff to be honest, as soon as it's opened the items are technically not sterile anymore whereas with the cold water steriliser, items can stay in the steriliser and remain sterile for up to 24 hours. Plus its cheap and economical.

Cold water one here too. You just change the water once a day and can put bottles in 15 minutes before you need them. Saves on electricity and much easier. Plus you can easily take it away with you. The only thing you have to watch is it removed the numbers on my tommee tipppee bottles if I left them in there for too long.

DD is bf but has formula if she goes to family or I have a night out so we bought a tommee tippee microwave steriliser as they aren't expensive and we don't use it much. Does the job and is so easy, bit of cold water and put it in for under 10 mins. Maybe I'm been naive but we only touch the bottle/teat we are going to use and shut the lid as soon as we have these out so it's only opened for a couple of seconds, never occurred to me about that making the other bottles not sterile. DD is now 4.5 months and never had an issue by doing this.

Thanks so much for your replies. I'd never even considered a cold water steriliser (first baby so a bit clueless!). I quickly googled there and all the reviews are great whereas I couldn't find a microwave or electric steriliser with all good reviews. Definitely something i'll look into!

Hiya

I have the tommee tippee electric steriliser. (Tommee tippee bottles etc) it's so easy to use and has served us really well for the past 8 months. It's been brilliant. Remember de-scaler though as it can build pretty quick. We do ours every couple of weeks x

We used a microwave steriliser as we had a tiny kitchen so didn't want something left out all of the time (it lived in the microwave). You just put 6 oz of water in and put it on for 4 minutes, it was great.

I had a cold water and a microwave steriliser (2 children) and the cold one is so much easier!

Thanks again for all your replies, they've been a massive help! x

Buy mam bottles. They are anti colic and self sterilise in the microwave so you don't need to buy a separate steriliser. Can do three at a time.

Cold water here too. So much easier and less faff. I just rotate the bottles whenever I wash some so there are always some ready to go Good luck with your baby!

Microwave and electric sterilisers are a pain in the ass. Steriliser tablets and a tub of water!

I second the mam bottles. Bought them for a colicky baby but I should have just bought them from the outset, saves extra money on a steriliser and so easy to pop in the microwave.

The supermarket tablets are a lot cheaper than Milton and they're fine by the way.

Cold water here also! I had an electric in the early days but found it a faff and very clunky. So switched to cold water steriliser and it's been great. Never even considered it until it was used in hospital for the breast pump.

I'm hoping to breastfeed longer next time but if it doesn't work out, I'll definitely do cold water sterilizing again.

Plus it's cheap as the Milton tablets (no need to rinse) are only about £2-2.50.

Thank you all, I didn't even know cold water sterilisers were a thing until I posted on here . Thanks crazypenguinlady I was wondering if I would need to rinse the bottles after having them in the steriliser.

Def don't rinse as they will then no longer be sterile. Same goes for drying with paper towel etc. I just shake mine off a bit and they're good to go.

thank you alltalknobaby that's a great help. i've got so much to learn! x

My sink was always beautifully clean from pouring the "used" sterilising fluid down it!!