After using a Tommee Tippee steriliser, bottles and feeding accessories remain sterile for up to 24 hours if the lid remains closed and undisturbed, or if stored in a sealed container, allowing you to prepare ahead of time. You can remove and reassemble items as needed, but ideally, use them within that 24-hour window, especially for newborns, as the sterility depends on keeping airborne germs out.
After sterilisation, your products will stay sterile for 24 hours when stored properly.
Change the sterilising solution every 24 hours.
Store the dry sterilised feeding equipment in a clean container with a lid. You can keep it in the fridge for up to 24 hours. You will need to sterilise your bottles every day.
Sterilise the parts in the same way that you sterilise bottles and teats. Sterilising after each use is especially important if the baby is less than two months old or premature. After sterilising, leave parts on a clean tea towel or piece of kitchen towel to air dry thoroughly.
How long do the content stay sterile for? The contents stay sterile for 24 hours. For how long should parents continue to sterilise? Parents should sterilise all feeding utensils from birth up until the baby's 1st birthday and bottles and teats for as long as the baby is using them.
Although you do not need to dry a baby bottle if you are using it right away, it is necessary to completely dry bottles before storing them for a later feeding to avoid bacterial growth. As a result, drying your baby bottles is an essential part of the cleaning process.
The "2-hour bottle rule" means prepared infant formula or breast milk left at room temperature should be used within 2 hours, or immediately refrigerated and used within 24 hours, because bacteria from the baby's mouth (saliva) can contaminate it, causing rapid bacterial growth. If feeding has started, any leftover milk must be discarded within 1 hour of the feeding beginning. The best practice for transport is to carry water and powder separately or keep chilled, ready-made bottles in a cool bag with ice packs and use within 2 hours, according to Raising Children Network, CDC, and BabyCenter.
Before the first use, sterilize nipples and bottles in boiling water for 5 minutes. After that, you don't have to sterilize your baby's bottles and supplies each time you feed your baby.
After the process is complete, Easy Start bottle remains disinfected up to 48 hours after self-sterilising in the microwave, provided that it stays assembled as shown on Step 3. Pour away the leftover water. Allow bottle parts to dry. Always store bottle assembled.
Bottle feeding
Powdered milk is not sterile and can cause infections if made up in advance. Therefore you will need to make up feeds during the night. However, you can make this easier by having bottles and teats ready sterilised, the powder measured out and boiled water kept in a flask.
Yes, sterilizing is recommended for newborns, preemies and when water quality is uncertain. After the first use, washing with hot water and soap is usually sufficient for healthy babies with access to clean water.
It's recommended that you wait until your baby is at least 12 months old before you phase out sterilising. It's important to keep using your steriliser until they're one year old to protect them from illnesses like sickness and diarrhoea caused by bacteria that can form in lingering breast milk or formula.
Sterilization, unlike sanitization, is a cleaning process that removes all bacteria, viruses and microorganisms from a surface. Sterilization is most likely to be used only in settings where the removal of germs is a matter of life and death, such as a hospital.
We do not recommend using formula preparation machines, such as Prefect Prep or Baby Brezza. These machines do not meet NHS guidelines to make up a feed using fresh boiled water up at 70 degrees. This can cause your baby to get sick.
Use distilled water in your sterilizer.
Any other type of water, such as tap, bottled, and even filtered, may contain deposits in it that can build up around the heating element and result in a shorter product life.
After 15 minutes, items are sterilised. Items can stay in the solution until needed. Rinse items with drinking water before use. Renew the solution every 24 hours.
How to self-sterilise in a microwave
The "5-5-5 Rule" for milk usually refers to breast milk storage: 5 hours at room temp, 5 days in the fridge, 5 months in the freezer (though CDC suggests longer freezer time), but it can also refer to postpartum recovery (5 days in bed, 5 days near bed, 5 days around home) for new mothers to rest and bond, emphasizing healing after childbirth. Both rules provide simple guidelines for new parents, but the storage rule has updated recommendations, and the postpartum rule's strictness varies by individual needs, according to health experts on The Bump and Franciscan Health.
At 1 month old, babies usually eat roughly every 2 - 3 hours. Breastfed babies typically eat more often than formula-fed babies since breast milk digests faster than formula [2]. Newborns at this age will eat about 2 - 4 ounces at each feeding with roughly 8 - 12 feedings in a 24-hour period.
Don't leave formula out at room temperature for more than 2 hours. Harmful bacteria can grow rapidly in food at room temperature. Discard formula that's been left out for more than two hours.
Studies in full-term and preterm infants have shown the safe practice of feeding cold milk.
Bacteria multiply very fast at room temperature. Even when a feed is kept in a fridge, bacteria can still survive and multiply, although more slowly. To reduce the risk of infection, it's best to make up feeds 1 at a time, as your baby needs them.
Let everything cool in the pot until you can take it out with tongs or clean hands without scalding yourself. Shake off excess water. There's no need to dry the items. Store equipment you aren't going to use straight away in a clean container in the fridge.