how do you sterilise baby bottles on holiday.I dont want to take a steam sterilzer abroad.too bulky?

Answer 1

boil them in water.

Answer 2

One thing you can do is buy the Playtex bottles where you use the disposable bags. It is a lot more to carry around but less to worry about when cleaning over the holiday let's say.

If just using regular baby bottles or even sippy cups boil them in a pot of boiling water for five minutes then rinse. Washing them in hot soapy water does the trick too, just make sure and use a brush to get the milk out of the tough to reach spots.

Answer 3

Ah, the early, overly-zealous days of parenting. Actually, it really is not necessary to routinely sterilize bottles, it's only necessary to do so with your first use or if, for some reason, the bottle has been exposed to some contaminent or has not been washed thoroughly after previous uses.

In general, you'll be fine if you wash them promptly and thoroughly with warm soapy water after each use. Let them dry on a rack or dry them with a clean towel and you'll be fine. Don't reassemble damp bottles, as the dampness will cause them to get musty inside.

Also, make sure your hands are clean when you handle the bottles. You don't want to handle raw chicken and then touch the bottles. If you practice good hygiene, wash bottles with warm soapy watter and use basic common sense, you don't need to sterilize routinely.

Answer 4

Boil a kettle and pour boiling hot water in them with a bit of washing up liquid then make sure you scrub them really well with a bottle brush.
If your child is a toddler then you don't really need to be sterilising as they need some germs to build up immunity plus not all germs are bad.
I stopped sterilising my baby bottles once he was settled on cows milk and he had no bad effects from it at all

Answer 5

when my wife and i were camping with our two young babies we didn't have room for the steriliser either so we used to buy a pack of sterilized bottle liners from the chemists.
they come in a roll like disposable nappy bags.
to use them you tear one from the roll and put it into the bottle, turn the open end back over the neck of the bottle and fill with whatever liquid you want to give to your baby, then screw on the teat using its securing ring this holds the liner in place and once the bottle is empty you just discard the liner, this does away with having to sterilize the bottle, all that needs sterilizing is the teat and that is easy enough to do by pouring boiling water over it inside an ordinary cup.

Answer 6

I don´t!! what I use to do when we are traveling is use the playtex bottles with the drops in, this will make your life much easier I just make sure to have plenty of drop ins, which are little plastic lids where you pour the liquid a box of 100 is like $8 and if you are concerned just sterilise the niples but I just wash them with hot sopy water. Hope it help, but seriously you should get them.

Answer 7

I agree with most of the people who answered, I didn't sterilize my kids bottles except after I bought them, and all I did was put them in the dishwasher....just make sure you clean it out really good...you don't want to be too careful and sterilize everything all the time, its not good for the baby....could actually get them sicker so they will never be exposed to germs..and then when they do get them, they will get really sick...just wash the bottles and that will be fine...

Answer 8

actually there is no reason to sterilise anymore

thats just old outdated information from the era when it was ok to smoke during pregnancy and give a one month old rice cereal in her bottle :)

you only need to sterilise the first time you wash the bottles after you buy them. after that time it is not helpful (and can actually harm your baby)

Answer 9

I think sterilizing bottles should be a thing of the past, I mean who really has time to mess with it. I use playtex drop ins and it saves me a ton of time. I have used those with all three of mine. It is nice because I never have to worry about my baby getting sick from a dirty bottle or anything like that.

Answer 10

I bought the bottles that use drop-ins...or bottle liners. I planned on switching back to the ones that need sterilizing when we returned from our vacation but I found these sooooo much more convenient!!! I've been using the bottle liners ever since and they even help to control the air consumed by baby!!!

Answer 11

How old is your child? It may be that you don't even need to continue to sterilize the bottles. You can mix formula with distilled or bottled water, and usually the hot water from the tap with soap will clean them sufficiently. If your child is on formula, you can always buy the pre-mixed bottled kind anywhere you travel.