How should I clean his bottles?

[KrystleLace]

I already steamed them but feel like something else needs done. Also what type of water should I mix his formula with? Thanks

[AnnieBrooke]

O.p., once you begin using the bottles, be sure you have one of those little brushes that have a bristle small enough to clean inside the nipples, for washing the milk out of the inside of the nipples.  My favorite bottle-washing brush had a rotary larger bristle on one end (you turn it like a crank and it twirls) for cleaning the inside of the bottles and a little bristle on the other end, for the nipples.

[AnnieBrooke]

"Nursery water" is vitamin- and mineral-laced water, (possibly with electrolytes added? -- not sure about the latter.)  It's not used for mixing with powdered formula.  That would be doubling up on the vitamin and mineral component.  Also, plastic bottles can leach chemical components into the water, so don't even buy jugs of distilled water to use in formula.  (It also tastes nasty.)  As one poster says, make a big pot of water and boil it 8 minutes, then cool it.  That water is perfectly good for making up formula.  Or buy pre-mixed liquid formula -- handy but a lot more bulky and expensive than powdered.

[savvyjewel]

Sorry if I misinformed you krystlelace.. That definitely was not my intentions. I've always used the ready to go formula so never have used the powder form. I'm wondering what the gallons of nursery water is for? Guess that's why this is a pregnancy forum and not a doctors forum!

[allystott]

Don't use bottled water!!!!!!! It's contains sodium and sulphate..... Boil water put in a jug and allow it to cool down to make bottles but if you didn't know this is I think you need to have a talk with your mw or hv who will go through what you do and don't do etc xx

[allystott]

Don't use bottled wster

[savvyjewel]

Nope just need to be steamed. They have the gallon of the "nursery water" I believe it's called at walmart or I'm sure any bottled water is fine.