Silly question: Do you sterelize a sippy cup?

[Pink Sunshine]

I will start offering a little water in a few weeks when DD starts solids. Just wondering how to clean the sippy cup. (obviously FTM) Should I boil it or just put it in the dish washer? Thanks!

 

[robinator]

We hand wash ours at the end of each day unless the dishwasher is full enough to be run; then they go in there.

 

[Pinky00]

I just clean all cups, bowls, spoons etc in hot soapy water! Dishwasher would do the job. I think the difference is that there are a lot of nooks and crannies in bottles where milk could get stuck!

 

[Siuan]

I just wash it with all the other washing up. I stopped sterilising stuff for LO when she was about 3 months old so just carried on like that anyway

 

[Banshee]

We just wash sippy cups, plates, cutlery etc even though we sterilise bottles- I understand it 's the milk curds that cause the issue with bottles.

 

[Pink Sunshine]

Wow! You ladies are fast! Thanks for the replies.

 

[kimberley3]

I still sterilise all that we use, cups,spoons bowels etc. X

 

[Kyliem87]

I don't sterilise a sippy cup. As far as I was aware we sterilise bottles because of the milk and that it can contain bacteria? But her sippy cup I wash in hot soapy water, bottle brush the inside then rinse in cold water