do u really need to sterilize bottles, nipples and binky's?

Question

what you opinion

i didnt say i dont. i read some where that u dont have to.

Answer 1

Written by Dr. Robert Steele,MD

The short answer to your question is you can stop now. It is not necessary to sterilize bottles, nipples, or formula.

To understand recommendations on whether to sterilize or not, it is important to realize the history of why sterilization was necessary in the past. In the 17th and 18th century there was a very high mortality rate for infants fed cow's milk. When pasteurization became available, technology allowed for sterile condensed milk to be used for infant feeding. However, during this time, the public water supplies remained largely unmonitored and formula was usually made in batches and left unrefrigerated, Thus, bacterial contamination tended to be a problem. Therefore, it became commonplace to sterilize the water, bottles and nipples. However, by the 1950s, city water supplies became much better monitored and free of bacterial contamination.

Studies were done back in the 1950s, which showed that babies could be safely fed formula made with clean (not sterile) bottles/nipples and tap water. However, by then, sterilization was so commonplace that it was difficult for doctors to stop recommending the practice to their patients, and it was also difficult for grandmothers to stop recommending it to their daughters.

In summary, formula prepared with city-treated tap water in the U.S. is as safe as sterilized formula. United States water from wells, cisterns or other sources should probably be sterilized by boiling for at least 10 minutes, plus one additional minute for every 1,000 feet of your city's elevation.



Robert W. Steele, MD, is a board certified pediatrician at St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.

Answer 2

I sterilized my oldest daughters bottles, nipples and Binky's once a week since she was the only baby who had use of them. When she was sick I sterilized them everyday. I rarely had a problem with illness though. ( she was a very healthy girl.) My younger daughters were sterilized every other day, but she had a tendency to get ill very easily. Each mom will give you her own opinion, your doctor would have the best answer though.

Answer 3

YES you do.

Put it this way, you baby is less likely to get sick if you steralise for the first year. It's less drama to steralise than to have your baby off to the doctor regularly or have sleepless nights because your baby has caught some sort of bug.

It may seem like a huge chore but it doesn't need to be. You can buy microwave steralisers to put all these things in and it only takes minutes.

I bought my bottles before my baby was born and then found they are about 5mm too large for any microwave steraliser I could find so I'm doing it the old way in water with steralising solution.

It does make it easier if you buy a heap of bottles so that you don't have to worry too much about how many are clean at one time. My six month old only has four bottles per day and I use six bottles so I find I only have to redo my steralising container every second day.

Another time saving tip - once my six bottles are steralised (15 minutes in the solution) I then fill them all up with boiled water so they are then ready to have the formula added at each feed time.

Lets face it they grow up so quickly and that first year will be gone before you know it and you can stop steralising!

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Answer 4

When my son was first born, I sterilized EVERYTHING until I learned to just run things through the dishwasher. It's much easier and it gets the job done. I've talked to some of my friends who are mothers about this very topic and they all do the same thing. There's no need to boil everything in pots on the stove if you have a dishwasher.

Answer 5

definitely you should always sterilize bottles nipples and Binky's before use just in case of germs,most likely nothing really bad would happen to your baby if you didn't it's not life or death but babies get sick easily when they are really small and germs on bottles could give your baby thrush you should sterilize your baby's bottles and nipples and Binky's regularly not just when you first buy them

Answer 6

Yes you should sterilize. Think of how often an infant drops their binky's and whatnot on the floor, ground, or in a public bathroom.
Use common sense, I alaways say.

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Answer 7

We just ran everything through the dishwasher. Doc said that was enough to sterilize them.

Answer 8

Yes you have, a childs internal defence system has not developed enough to counter the viruses and bacteria that are present on most things.
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life!

Answer 9

Yes!!! There are so many places all of this can go throughout the course of a day/night. To keep down germs in general and germs that cause illnesses, it's essential.

Answer 10

I just had a baby almost 2 weeks ago. What i did was sterlize everything the first time before he uses it. Then when it's time to clean it then i use hot water.