How to keep sterilized bottles?

Question

A new father with a 10 days old baby has a question,

I used a Avent bottle sterilizer that can go up to 24 hours nonstop. I usually keep all the bottles inside but it gets to crowded inside. So I bought one sterilized container for baby bottles that supposed to keep the sterilized bottles sterilized. (Basically it's just an empty container that you can close and open when you need to get something from inside)

How long can I keep the already sterilized bottles in the closed container before I have to sterilized them again?

All of the websites I found tell you how to sterilize the bottles but none of them tell me how to keep them sterilized.

Thank you,

I'm talking about an empty bottles, not with the milk inside. I usually just throw away the left over, if the baby can't finish it at once. So, how long can I keep an empty bottle inside a plastic container to keep it steril? When we took the pregnancy class, if I'm not mistaken it can be kept for 48 hours, but I'm not sure, that's why I'm asking =)

Answer 1

You are such a good Dad but your are going about this with the wrong idea.

Put the cap on them and put them in the refrigerator, they will stay sterile. If you keep them in the sterilizer the formula is going to go bad and sour and be worse than if it were non-sterile. You are essentially making more bacteria than your are killing.

The thing about sterilizing bottles is that the baby should be suckling on its Mother's breast - you cannot sterilize a breast - Enough said.

All the panic over sterilization can be taken way too far.

It is all well and good to sterilize bottles but the real reason you sterilize is to get the water you mix in the formula pure and keep it that way: tap water is full of germs so boil the water.

God Bless.

Answer 2

what i usually do is this: When the sterilizer gets full, i remove already-sterilized bottles and keep them out(or in the fridge, empty), with teat and cap on...these will be the bottles I will use during that day..i usually don't leave sterilize bottles out for too long. If there are sterilized bottles that I have taken out of the sterilizer at the beginning of the day, and did not use by night time, I just sterilize them again at night, with the other used bottles..

I think you can keep them out of a day..maybe, not more.
Hope I was of help!

Answer 3

It should be fine for as long as nothing gets into it, like if you left it open for 10 minutes you might want to re-sterilize, but as long as the container itself is clean and sterile, then the bottles placed in it will stay sterile until it's taken out and used or the container is left open for dust to settle on them.

hope that helped, but i did want to add that you can relax a little with the sterilization... i never went through all that work for my son's bottles and was never told to- they only part you really need to sterilize are the nipples for the bottles, and just make sure the bottles are clean- a once-through the dishwasher is sufficient. my son has never been sick from a bottle, nor has any other baby i have ever known from drinking bottles... but you are obviously a very devoted/loving dad to do all of that for your baby! he/she is very lucky to have you to keep her/him safe!!! ♥

Answer 4

all i did was boil the bottles when we first bought them. i never sterilized them again, i just used plain old soap and warm water to wash them.

Answer 5

Sterized