2006-07-15 06:26:05 · 33 answers · asked by AMANDA G 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
have been a nanny for 20 years and looked after more than a dozen babies...I say once they're crawling and putting all kinds of stuff in their mouths,then you may as well give up!
The first 'baby' I looked after is now a huge,strapping 15 year old rugby player that almost never gets sick so I guess it never did him any harm.
Would strongly advise you to wean him onto a cup asap as well as bottles are very bad for their teeth-even if it's just milk.
Good luck.
2006-07-15 07:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by pinkandloopy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Generally the HV advise that you must sterilise up to 6 months. My son is 10 months and I still sterilise his drinking bottles. Just force of habit.
I think that if the bottles are cleaned properly, or put through the dishwasher on the top shelf, you should be ok.
2006-07-15 07:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by The one 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never sterilized the bottles (VentAire bottles). I did do the nipples and disks until my boys were about 3 or 4 months old. Their pediatrician said it's not necessary to sterilize them if they're being put in a dishwasher because that will sanitize them (just make sure you buy the dishwasher detergent that has bleach in it...some of them don't). I was handwashing bottles at the time, so I had to sterilize the nipples, etc.
Contrary to what I've seen a lot of on here (not just this post, but others as well) dishwashers do NOT sterilize anything. Autoclaves and boiling water sterilize. Dishwashers only sanitize...huge difference!
2006-07-15 16:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I stopped sterilisisng my eldest sons bottles at 6 months but he kept getting colds and the doctor told me to start sterilising them again. I stopped again at 9 months and he was fine, i did the same with my youngest
2006-07-15 22:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 months is usually recommended but if you leave them in boiling water, that works just as well as the sterilising stuff. Well, better actually because boiling water is the only thing known to kill 100% of all known germs! And it doesn't leave those horrible white marks.
I gradually stopped sterilising. Going from once a day to once every other day and now I just wash them with the washing up and rinse them out.
2006-07-15 21:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now is a good time, they should be used to all the little things that float about in the air, and ur son has porbably built up his immune system.
i stopped sterilising at the age of 4 months, and have had no occurances of serious illness. hope this helps
2006-07-15 21:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by storm.minx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know all these people are saying about how he is putting things in his mouth already but milk bottles are terrible for causing bugs such as gastroenteritis and worse due to a build up in and around the teat so until he is on a cup i would rather be safe and keep sterilising.
Nursery Nurse.
2006-07-15 12:21:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i stopped when my son was around 6 months old, as he started crawling and was constantly putting things in his mouth that had been on the floor, etc. i think if you sterilize his bottles for too long, his immune system will get too used to having everything so germ-free, he might pick up every germ going. my son is now 2 and has never been ill.
2006-07-15 06:47:55 · answer #8 · answered by gwendipops 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you put the bottles in the dishwasher they should be sterile enough. At 9 months, most pediatricians advise the baby be switching to a cup, anyhow.
2006-07-15 06:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by Ambrosia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give it at least 3 months more I waited till my son was on cows milk and 18 months old but the minimum age a doctor is happy with is 12 months old.
2006-07-15 06:30:18 · answer #10 · answered by madamspud169 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋