I have a 9 month old son when is it safe to stop sterilising his bottles?
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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.
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12 mths
I stopped at 6mo. now I wash them by hand and then put them in the dishwasher. about 3 months ago...he needs to build up his immune system now, so stop asap. Good luck x
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.
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.I feel that it is safe up until the baby stop drinking formula ie about
14 to 18 months.
I stopped just a month ago...he is 5 months now..I just put them in the dishwasher and they are fine Officially it is at 12 months, or atleast according to my health visitor.
About the time he starts eating table food. BUT! It doesn't hurt to keep what he constantly puts in his mouth sterile, like anything else, to avoid bad germs from people around him, like colds etc. But as far as water, if he's eating table food then then unsterilized water (tap) should be ok too.
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my doctor and all the baby books said it was ok to quit sterilizing all of it at 6 months, but i felt better boiling the nipples the entire time
also, i would pour the boiling water on the freshly washed bottles and allow them to air dry....its always better to be clean than sorry!!
After his first birthday!
3 months of that boring job to go!
My son is 15 months and its so much easier once you don't have to sterilise!
Also, once he is 12 months old, you can switch him onto full fat cows milk, unless his feeding isn't too good yet, in which case its best to stick to a follow-on milk.
Good luck x
honestly i have only sterilized ds bottles twice once when they were fist bought and if i or any one washed them at somone else's house. i think that if you use hot enough water and soap they should be fine,anything they pick up to eat isnt going to be sterile so why stress on it like they say it will ony help build their immune system.they should be starting to drink from cups(regularcups we drink from) and eating w/ spoons by about 6mos anyways....let your kids have some independene
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mommy of a healthy 6.5mos old +one on the way 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.
never always sterilize bottles
I wash my child's bottles and then put them in a Medela steam clean bag in the microwave and them air dry. Works great. Each bag gets 20 uses. You can get the bags at Target and Babies R UsSource(s):
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i think its twelve months my son i 11months and i still sterilise his bottles when he turns a year i will stop 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.
I never sterilized my daughter's bottles with the exception of when they came out of their wrappers. I either hand wash but mostly run through the dishwasher. The dishwasher gets hot enough to sterilize.
She's only had 1 very minor cold.
when he reaches 1 years old Good question I have a nine month old daughter, and have been trying to remember when we stopped with our older daughter, but for the life of me my wife and me cannot remember. Personally I think it is ok now because they put everything in their mouth anyhow...
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. 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! 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
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. 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
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