crazy question about baby bottles!

[MimiKay]

Ok, I've been so busy getting ressies, getting MVMCP tickets, booking PS--I just thought of something-- for those of you who travel with infants, how do you keep sterile bottles?? I get the powdered formula so that keeps us from having to get refrigerator, but what about clean bottles???

 

[jel0511]

You don't need to sterilize baby bottles past 4 weeks or age, so I never found it to be a problem, since I had long stopped sterilizing them. I just brought a bottle brush and a small bottle of dishsoap. I washed them in the bathroom sink and left them out to air dry.

 

[BevS97]

Here in the UK we sterilise upto a year -

when my dd was under a year, we chose to stay in an apartment offsite so that we would have access to a microwave/kitchen and wouldbe able to sterilse them in the microwave

it is also possible to use a steam steriliser or chemical sterilisation - I don't know the brands, but in the UK you use Milton tablets which you disolve in water. They are quite portable, you just need a large tub like an ice-cream tub and the tablets - the only downside is that they have a slight smell and some babys don't like it if they aren't used to it.

Can you get a steam steriliser? That would be the easiest option - I can buy a travel sized one over here which sterilises 2 bottles at a time.


For day to day use, we would fill the sterilised bottles with cooled boiled water upto the approriate level, and then use the sachets of powder which we would add just as we mixed the bottles, so no need to worry about milk going off in the parks.

that bit was easy - but the sterilisation was a pain

Bev

 

[shafke]

That's what we do also... while in the parks, rinse the bottles when there finished. Soap and hot water and a bottle brush when we get back to the room.

 

[minniemouse1]

You can also use playtex disposable bottles. The liners are already sterile in the package so all you would have to worry about is the nipples. I have never sterilized my infants bottles, nipples or pacifiers and I believe it is unnecessary after the first month of age. My pediatrician states that sterilizing is not needed but every MD has a different opinion.

 

[welovedisneyx4]

I second the playtex disposable bottle liners. They are the best. That is all I used for my kids.

By the way, be sure to always pack the bottles when you are going to the park!! LOL! We learned that the hard way when we went to O'hana and MVMCP w/ out DS's(then 6 months) bottle. The resorts do carry bottles, by the way; however, that doesn't mean your child will be happy w/ it!!!