...is going in the bin!

I hate sterilising bottles and tbh don't know why I've done it this long (always planned to stop at 6 months) but we've just got back from a week at my mum's and I haven't sterilised all week and I don't intend to start again now I'm home. So woooooooop!!!! no more sterilising for me EVER!!! and I can reclaim my kitchen worktop

That is all!

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I stopped at 6 months too

We are apparently bad mothers, according to the old bag that works for Milton at the Baby Show - had a right go at me for putting Izzy at risk by not doing it til she was 1...what a cheeky cow! Izzy has had less illness than most toddlers so I can't see it makes much difference!

I sterilised up until a year... but iv just realised my steriliser is still sitting like an ornament on my counter 7 months later! Why havent I packed it away!

Lol snoops, reclaim your space hun!! Although if you are planning more bambinos then you will only have to get it all out again so don't pack it away too safely I however will never be pregnant again and will take great pleasure in dumping the thing in the bin tomorrow my sterilising days are done!!

Lisa I think Milton lady sounds a bit bias to me lol. Hannah is a human hoover and spends most of her time crawling round picking bits off the carpet and eating them and licking/chewing/sucking anything she can get her face close enough to, I actually found her chewing on thomas' shoe today which is minging but the fact that he still had it on his foot cracked me up. Unless I can put my children in hermetically sealed bubbles they are gonna come into contact with germs. I think this is a good thing as it helps build a decent immune system and actually prevent them getting ill rather than put them at risk. I don't think a bottle teat that has been washed in hot soapy water is going to put a baby that licks shoes at risk.

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Exactly Debs - I walked away from her cos she clearly had no idea what she was on about!

i'm the worst mummy of them all then, I could probably count on my hand the amount of times I used mine

you're not a bad mummy pixel - sensible maybe?

I think if i'd bf'ed till 6 months I wouldn't have even bothered getting one for after 6 months but when you bottle feed from earlier it becomes part of your routine and all of a sudden you blink and they are 8 months old and licking shoes and you think why the &*^% doo I bother?

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i bottle fed her breast milk from about 8 weeks and only really sterilisied at the beginning. I washed everything with anti-bac fairy and she's not dead

i still have bottles sterilising in there from a few weeks back mine has become an ornament too and taking up a lot of my work bench!! i shall be swiftly packing mine away too for future uses (not for a v long time though!!!!)
thanks for this post, it has helped me reclaim a good bit of my bench haah xx

Yey Lou! you reclaim that space girlfriend!! (in my best american - jerry springer-esque accent ) lol

So I packed mine away and now I have a big empty looking patch in the corner - hhhhhmmmmmm???? what shall I put there?

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hahaha i will girlfrieeeeend!! hahaha
jerry, jerry, jerrry!!!! that show sucks, but in a you-still-have-to-watch-it-way!
hmmm a nice vase? fruit bowl? something non-babyfied

relish the space! i've got buggar all in mine!!

hmm i still sterilise elijah's bowls and the breast pumps....perhaps this is unnecessary routine

I got a little box with drawers for the 'space' - cleared out/tidied the kitchen drawers and put stuff in the new drawers...lol

i packed mine away at the weekend too. altho i dont think i have sterilised since alfie was just over 6 months!! its nice to have3 the space! x

ok i must be over obsessive then lol i still do all ollies bottles and dumies etc even if they not been used in the day (LOL) and bowls and spoons etc probably every 3 days

Yey, have you found anything for the space deby?

you know what, i do E's bottles, but never the bowls cutlery she uses

and TBH her dummies only get done once a flood, cos she only has 2 so keeping them sterlised would be a nightmare

shoot me now!!!

Lol Jo - no I haven't found anything for the space yet. I'm enjoying having just one minimalistic space in my house for a day - no doubt by the end of tomorrow something child orientated will have found its way and made a home for itself on my lovely decluttered work space

It's amazing how much more relaxed you are second time round though - I have never sterilised any of Hannah's weaning stuff and she doesn't have a dummy so I don't have that to think about.

I'm so happy that my sterilising days are done but still kinda sad in a weird way , my baby is now and crawling, cruising almost toddler - where did that time go?

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god im still sterilising, i stopped and ava got gastroentritis the next day, total coincidence im sure but ive convinced myself it was my fault!

I've got rid of mine aswell as L drinks out of non sterilised cups with tap water and he puts everything in his mouth. He doesn't have a dummy either. X