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Our pediatrician told us that putting them in the dishwasher was good enough. We put the bottles and nipples in the dishwasher every night. Once a week I also boiled the nipples. I doubt I needed to do it but it just became a habit.

We only did after the first use too.

That's what the directions said, and my internet research. I wasn't planning on using bottles so I was kind of caught by surprise and quickly googled all my questions.

I only run them through the dishwasher when I first buy them.

we're not there yet, but I remember with my youngest sister that we just washed them daily. I'm sure mom sterilized them before the first use though.

I am in love with my sterilizer, I still use it almost daily at 11 months.

We have very hard water and use a lot of chemicals in the dishwasher to keep the limescale away. So, I didn't want to put the baby's stuff in there. I really use my sterilizer more as a holding tank for the stuff that's been washed. I don't like it hanging around in my dish drainer, so I pop it in the sterilizer. It's not so much for the sterilizing but the organization in my case.

I would sterilize the bottles and the medela pumping pieces for like 4 months. Looking back I wonder why I did it so long. Next time around, I might do it for the first couple of weeks, but thats about it.