https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 02:35:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649212 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:01:45 +0000 Mrs D 2649212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hand washed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649211 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:59:48 +0000 Pumuckl 2649211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We run the dishwasher every day at least once so no need to handwash. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649202 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:40:21 +0000 Worrywart 2649202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hand wash every night and super hot soapy water. Only two more months. Counting down the days..... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649167 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:30:48 +0000 BSB 2649167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Handwash. My dishwasher never does a good job cleaning things with small openings. I've washed reusable water bottles and they always come out with dried food caked on the insides. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649160 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:26:17 +0000 Adira 2649160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hand wash.</p> <p>We don't run the dishwasher daily. And the one time we did try to wash the bottles in the dishwasher, it left a gross film on them and I had to hand wash them again anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2649096 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:08:27 +0000 FaithFertility 2649096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hand wash </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648585 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:01:56 +0000 catomd00 2648585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: it says not to in case they warp. I only have one set and they're too $$ to test it out! I just soak them in a bowl of warm soapy water for a few mins at night and rinse. It's not bad! Totally worth the convenience of them otherwise! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648548 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:04:02 +0000 pachamama 2648548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both and sterilize in micro but they never get clean. Breastmilk is SO GREASY. There's oily residue on them always. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648518 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 17:38:10 +0000 mediagirl 2648518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dishwasher! Sterilize those bad boys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648315 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:12:00 +0000 petitenoisette 2648315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't have a dishwasher for most of LO's first year of life. Hand washing pump parts and bottles was the worst chore ever. Even when we got a dishwasher I had to hand wash most of the time bc we only run it every three days or so and the bottles would often still have a film in them and the small parts would pool with water which didn't seem hygienic to me. </p> <p>One thing I will definitely do differently when we have baby 2 is have DH do the washing sometimes. I don't know why I just always did it even though I hated it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648314 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:02:32 +0000 ValentineMommy 2648314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We always hand washed. And it sucked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648257 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:53:19 +0000 snowjewelz 2648257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Handwashed; we don't run our dishwasher everyday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648249 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:36:55 +0000 Purpledaisy 2648249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Handwash. We only have two bottles (I work part time) and one set of pump parts so it doesn't take that long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648199 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:36:03 +0000 ShootingStar 2648199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dishwasher all the way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648180 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:07:56 +0000 psw27 2648180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I handwashed with LO but y'all have officially convinced me to just use the dishwasher next time. Worst. Chore. Ever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648125 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:47:35 +0000 SweetiePie 2648125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mostly dishwasher but I definitely handwashed a fair amount if we ran out and the dishwasher wasn't full (which was often). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648117 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:34:02 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2648117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think this thread convinced me to get more bottles and just use the dishwasher for LO2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2648110 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:24:21 +0000 kiddosc 2648110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dishwasher. Both kids used the super cheap gerber bottles, so we have a ton of them. The sterilize setting gets them super clean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647984 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:23:21 +0000 KayKay 2647984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mostly used the dishwasher with DD1 but found that the high fat content of the milk did tend to leave a film on the inside. Even if I rinsed well before loading, it would sometimes be there, but I was FT WOH and didn't want to always deal with handwashing at night, soooo...I did a little of both depending on how lazy I was feeling!</p> <p>With DD2, I was SAH, so she didn't get bottles nearly as often. I would just handwash and felt they got cleaner. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647973 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:04:58 +0000 Ajsmommy 2647973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hand washed with DD, but I might do a combo once DS is here </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647967 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 08:54:09 +0000 edelweiss 2647967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i mostly handwashed because we had a limited number of bottles and we weren't running the diswasher frequently enough. if i had to do it again, i would just buy more bottles and dishwash them. handwashing bottles was one of those nightly chores that was such a friggin pain in my ass, i wonder if my evenings would have been a little bit more stress free if i had just let go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647819 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 22:25:14 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2647819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For LO1 we used to hand wash. We got a ton of bottles from a friend of ours who bought Dr. Brown's and didn't end up using them for LO2 and we run the dishwasher every day. We got the baskets for them and our dishwasher is newer, so it does a far better job than if we hand washed. Saves us a ton of time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647808 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:47:08 +0000 winter_wonder 2647808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hand wash. Ours dishwasher never gets the nipples or other Dr. Brown's parts clean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647807 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:45:14 +0000 DesertDreams88 2647807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: you can't use the dishwasher for freemies???? Really??? there goes my hope for baby #2?</p> <p>Dishwasher all the way. We have 2 days worth of bottles and run the dishwasher every 24-36 hours. We have a family of 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647800 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:31:20 +0000 catomd00 2647800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dishwasher. The one thing I hate about freemies is having to hand wash them! I miss throwing pump parts in the dishwasher. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647779 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:02:30 +0000 Bernieboo 2647779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use the dishwasher... We were hand washing and sanitizing at first and I was losing my mind because there were so many dishes all the time. My mom convinced me it was worth my sanity to run a dishwasher load every day, whether it's full or not. So, I run a regular load with soap, then I run it again without soap on high heat to sterilize. If our dishwasher was newer, I would run a sterilize cycle after the regular wash. I plan to hand wash and sterilize my pump parts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647767 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:49:49 +0000 skinnycow 2647767@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just use the dishwasher. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647720 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:08:49 +0000 fancyfunction 2647720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hand wash then sterilize in the microwave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647702 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:52:06 +0000 auggiefrog 2647702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hand wash both plastic and glass bottles as well as some pumping parts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottles-hand-wash-or-dishwasher#post-2647697 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:47:30 +0000 caterw 2647697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I handwashed and boiled them when DD was really little, but when she started eating solids. I figured she was probably fine if I just stuck them in the dishwasher since I wasn't boiling her bowls and spoons. </p>