Do you hand wash your baby bottles or do you put them in the dishwasher? I do load them up in the dishwasher but then I also end up hand-washing a lot as well (and sterilize in the microwave bags) because we go through so many.
Do you hand wash your baby bottles or do you put them in the dishwasher? I do load them up in the dishwasher but then I also end up hand-washing a lot as well (and sterilize in the microwave bags) because we go through so many.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
We have always hand washed them. We only have six, so if we waited for a full load for the dishwasher we would never have clean bottles!
persimmon / 1431 posts
I always hand washed because I thought the dishwasher detergent was too strong and thought it would leave a soapy smell/taste in the bottles.
pear / 1809 posts
I use the dishwasher. I bought a special dishwasher basket for the nipples and other bottle parts, so everything gets clean.
persimmon / 1445 posts
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.
cherry / 121 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4418 posts
Dishwasher. The one thing I hate about freemies is having to hand wash them! I miss throwing pump parts in the dishwasher.
grapefruit / 4361 posts
@catomd00: you can't use the dishwasher for freemies???? Really??? there goes my hope for baby #2?
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.
persimmon / 1479 posts
Hand wash. Ours dishwasher never gets the nipples or other Dr. Brown's parts clean.
pomelo / 5524 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4923 posts
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.
pear / 1961 posts
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!
With DD2, I was SAH, so she didn't get bottles nearly as often. I would just handwash and felt they got cleaner.
grapefruit / 4278 posts
Dishwasher. Both kids used the super cheap gerber bottles, so we have a ton of them. The sterilize setting gets them super clean.
persimmon / 1431 posts
I think this thread convinced me to get more bottles and just use the dishwasher for LO2!
honeydew / 7463 posts
Mostly dishwasher but I definitely handwashed a fair amount if we ran out and the dishwasher wasn't full (which was often).
pomelo / 5220 posts
I handwashed with LO but y'all have officially convinced me to just use the dishwasher next time. Worst. Chore. Ever.
nectarine / 2973 posts
Handwash. We only have two bottles (I work part time) and one set of pump parts so it doesn't take that long.
pear / 1521 posts
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.
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.
nectarine / 2436 posts
Both and sterilize in micro but they never get clean. Breastmilk is SO GREASY. There's oily residue on them always.
grapefruit / 4418 posts
@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!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Hand wash.
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.
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
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.
apricot / 394 posts
Hand wash every night and super hot soapy water. Only two more months. Counting down the days.....
pomegranate / 3601 posts
We run the dishwasher every day at least once so no need to handwash.
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