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Can u tell when it is safe to stop sterilizing the bottles? ↓

Name: E | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 3:31 PM

Never sterilized - breastfed till they were 7 months old, then just switched to bottles, didn't see the need to sterilize. You have to expose them to some amount of the environment in order to develop immunities. ↑

Name: Michele | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 4:33 PM

They don't make you sterilize anymore except the first time right after you buy them. Then just wash in warm, soapy water. ↑

Name: Fiona | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 10:34 PM

You need to sterilize for the first six months. ↑

Name: Debra | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 10:49 PM

I'm not sure- but I know my husband saw something on TV about sterilizing bottles and what bacteria could exist on them and since that show he hasn't stopped doing it! So it must have been gross! ↑

Name: Irene | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 11:15 PM

i sterilized untill my babies were one years old,
and I also boiled their water for drinking if i hadnt had chance to buy bottled! ↑

Name: Debra | Date: Mar 30th, 2006 4:02 AM

It reminds of that child number one number two number three joke I sent a while ago- baby number one everything was sterilized, baby number two had tap water, baby number three gets a drink from the creek when were taking a walk! ↑

Name: channie | Date: Mar 30th, 2006 1:35 PM

hi i have a book from the NHS called from birth to 5. and it says you should sterilize bottles until your baby is 6 months old to protect against infection. ↑