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Baby bottle steam sterilizers, microwave VS. electric?
We are expecting a baby and we are looking to buy a steam sterilizer. However I am a little confused which type to go for.
The microwave one seem a lot cheaper because they don't really do much and they manage to sterilize a bottle much quicker. So why would I bother to spend all that extra money on an electric one?
The only 'benefit' i can tell is that they stay sterile for longer like 24 hours but surely the minute you take one out the rest are no longer sterile so you'd have to do something with them all. The really expensive ones seem to be digital ones that tell you how long they have left before they need doing again but surely your baby would want all those before they got a chance to go bad again.
From what I understand so far, I can sterilize a batch up, fill them with boiled water and put them all into the fridge for the day until they are needed and then i fill them with powder.
Am i missing something or are these electrical ones not worth the spend over a microwave one?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
we bought a microwavable sterilizer. When the bottles are brand new we washed them with hot soapy water and boiled them and nipples, etc for 5 min. then every time after that we washed them still then used our microwavable sterilizer. When it was done sterilizing we took the bottles out and fill them with the amount of water (our baby drinks 40z) and put the nipples and everything on and cap them. That way when he was hungry we just had to put the powder formula in. The bottles were room temp. and our son has been doing fine with that.
Source(s): mother of 3 month old - 6 years ago
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Baby bottle steam sterilizers, microwave VS. electric?
We are expecting a baby and we are looking to buy a steam sterilizer. However I am a little confused which type to go for.
The microwave one seem a lot cheaper because they don't really do much and they manage to sterilize a bottle much quicker. So why would I bother to spend all that...
Source(s): baby bottle steam sterilizers microwave electric: https://tr.im/UvNA3 - Vegan_MomLv 71 decade ago
Even though they might be safe, I still wouldn't put plastic in to the microwave. I was leery of microwaves and plastic (having read something in "Body and Soul" magazine a few years ago and even something on plastic wrap in the microwave in the 90s, in a copy of "50 Simple Things You Can do to Save the Earth"; I think it was in there, or a similar book.) I especially would not put a baby bottle in the microwave, if I were to use bottles. (Actually, I would use lightweight glass bottles, if I could, since petroleum is used to make plastic.)
If you and the baby are both healthy, then I suggest breastfeeding. It's free and much better than formula. Also, I wonder if just washing the bottles in the dishwasher would be just as effective as the sterilizers. If that is so, then I just wonder if the sterilizers are another one of those nice gimmicks from companies trying to make parents think they "need" them and therefore spend money they don't need to spend.
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- 1 decade ago
OMG...you don't need any of that crap... here is what you do... wash everything in soap and water (like you would regularly) and fill up a large pot turn the burner on high and just boil everything (bottles, rings, caps, nipples and pacifiers) for 8 minutes.... using tongs take everything out and let dry and your done. Don't put your baby's bottle in the microwave, and I would tell you to breastfeed as well. That's free. Don't waste your money on something you can do for free. Spend it on something more useful.
