https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 15:23:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768728 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:59:47 +0000 mamabolt 768728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I handwash in hot soapy water and let it air dry. Rarely sterilize. It takes me maybe 15-20 min? I do it while LO is eating dinner usually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768721 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:58:08 +0000 SleepyMonkey 768721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i hand wash on weeknights, it takes me...maybe 10-15 minutes and dry them overnight in the rack. i will boil them every once in awhile for 10 mins if i feel like someone around her has been sick or whatever. but i don't worry about sterilizing them too much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768697 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:42:18 +0000 regberadaisy 768697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hand wash everyone in hot soapy water every night then sterilize in a munchkin sterilizer. Never timed myself but maybe 20 minutes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768624 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:03:49 +0000 QueensBee 768624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This was totally me when LO was first born! I was driving myself crazy sterilizing the parts each night. Then, our doula came to visit and I mentioned it to her. She told me I was overdoing it and that I should try to minimize heating up the plastic too much. So now I keep the pump parts in the refrigerator and reuse them throughout the day. At the end of the day, I rinse the parts in warm tap water and then throw them in a pot of soapy warm water for about 20 minutes. Then, I rinse again and put them on a bottle drying rack. I probably only sterilize once a month as well.</p> <p>It's still a bit of work but much better than it was. We don't have a dishwasher, so that's not an option for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768612 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:58:51 +0000 birdofafeather 768612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oahujeni: ah, all my stuff fits in our big 10 quart pot and if it doesn't, i just pluck it out and throw the next thing in. i don't really put it away either like @dagret: . i just let it dry until i use it next. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768603 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:52:40 +0000 dagret 768603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oahujeni: I also don't dry - I let everything hang out on the rack. And we have a tiny kitchen with no counter space. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768600 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:50:30 +0000 oahujeni 768600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: because there are so many parts between the bottles and pump parts that i have to do 6-7 pots of boiling water, then dry everything and put it away. I was boiling for 10 minutes each but I should cut it back to 5 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768551 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:12:38 +0000 sunny 768551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We hand wash and then I sterilize in the Medela Steam bags. But I probably don't do it as often as I should! I think I'm averaging once a month!? Oops... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768547 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:11:02 +0000 dagret 768547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I usually hand wash and only sterilize once a week with the medela steam bags. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768495 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:37:09 +0000 birdofafeather 768495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oahujeni: oh, sorry! I boil a big pot of water and throw it in. I've read you only need to boil for 5-10 minutes. why does it take you 2 hours? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768446 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:15:49 +0000 oahujeni 768446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: how do you sterilize? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768438 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:12:16 +0000 birdofafeather 768438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hand wash, let dry on the rack. sterilize once a week or if their cleanliness was compromised. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768407 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:51:03 +0000 Bluebonnet 768407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wash everything in the dishwasher on the sanitize setting.</p> <p>If I hand wash, I use the microwave steam bags. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768406 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:49:20 +0000 autumnlove 768406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hand wash and sterilize in the microwave once a week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768404 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:47:00 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 768404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At night I hand-wash in soapy water (with my son's bottles from that day) and leave them in a drying rack to dry overnight. I used to also use the microwave steam bags by Medela after hand-washing, but I stopped doing that a few months ago. Now I only sterilize my parts with the microwave bags if they've fallen on the ground or something equally gross. </p> <p>I boiled them before the first use, but have never done it since. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768401 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:43:42 +0000 fancyfunction 768401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I just wash them out with hot soapy water then stick them in our microwavable sterilizer - which only takes 5 minutes. Our sterilizer holds 4 bottles and their parts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768267 Wed, 08 May 2013 15:37:07 +0000 shopaholic 768267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wash by hand and toss in our Tommee Tippee steam sterilizer. Takes 5 min. Then I dry them on our Boon rack. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cleaning-amp-sterilizing-bottlespump-parts#post-768262 Wed, 08 May 2013 15:35:37 +0000 oahujeni 768262@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Tell me how you clean &amp; sterilize your bottles and pump parts! It takes me about an hour to hand wash and dry everything at night, and it takes about 2 hours to boil and then dry everything on the weekend. There has got to be a faster way! If you use the dishwasher, do you put bottles in with your regular dishes or run a separate cycle? </p>