Forgot to sterilise!

Please no judgement…I feel awful.

I put a bottle, that had been used with formula, into the steriliser, but I didn’t put it on to sterilise as I wanted to wait until more was put in, so it wasn’t a waste of electricity. I then completely forgot and my partner, who was unaware, made a bottle of formula in this bottle thinking it was sterilised!

I wouldn’t be too worried of a one off, but my baby was growth restricted (6lbs now at 9 weeks since birth, 4 weeks corrected) and she is immunocompromised.

How worried do I need to be?? 😳

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No judgement, nobody's perfect x
If you're really worried, ring the out of hours gp, explain her situation and ask what you should look out for x

I wouldn’t be too worried. I know plenty and plenty of mothers that don’t even use sterilizers and their babies are perfectly fine. I would just maybe let docs know at her next check up and if they request anything then let them do test but I think that she fine.

No judgement at all, I’m sure this has happened to me at some stage with my premature baby because it can be really hard to tell which bottles are sterilised or not. The main thing will be to look out for any signs if baby has an upset stomach I would say x

I’m here to say I don’t even use a sterilizer 🫣

I’m sure you washed it really well. When I had my baby I didn’t know I needed to sterilize everything once every 24 hours, but I do understand your situation is different. I’m sure yours will be fine, just keep an eye on baby.

I dont use steriliser i boil hot water pour on the bottles and bottle is ready for use

if it makes you feel better after i took my babies bottle out of the steriliser because they were so hot if he needed a bottle there and then i use to run them under the cold tap i only realised a year later that there no point in me sterilising them because the tap water wasnt sterilie 🤣

Thank you everyone - this made me feel a lot better! X

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