Sterilising bottles

How long did you continue to sterilise bottles? NHS advice says 12 months.

Thinking more towards the cold water steriliser method as can't self sterilise bottles we're using in microwave

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I use stem steriliser. The cold water method you have to now rinse when sterile water so steamer is so much easier. I will stop at 12months also

As soon as they start putting every thing in sight in there mouth I wouldn’t bother, I stopped at 9 months

Our doctor said because our baby had no complications and gained weight well, we never really sterilised. We only sterilised when something was new and straight from factory packaging but didn’t sterilise during regular use. I had friends who sterilised at least the first 3 months and used steam sterilisers or those microwaveable bags.

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