PSA you should apparently be washing your bottles with a special bottle specific dish soap. Alternate title: how I made my baby sick with my own stupidity. from beyondthebump
This may be a dumb question.... But are you ladies using regular dish soap to wash bottles or are you using one specifically for babies? I'm just about out of baby dish soap and trying to decide whether to buy more or just use the Dawn that we use on everything else.
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Have only ever used regular dish soap and haven't ever had an issue.
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juliemd
@ikee04,
Oh really? Okay cool. FTM so I was all cautious and crazy at the beginning. It's quickly fading. Haha thanks for the response!!
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Chicrib55
I just use plain ol dawn.
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mamalai
I have a separate dish soap for my son. We use the honest company dish soap (grapefruit).
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AnniesMama1224
When I was pumping I noticed that just washing with regular dish soap still left a greasy residue in the bottle. The residue was from the breastmilk (not the soap) but the dish soap wasn't removing it. Medela sells Breastmilk Removal Soap which cleans this residue so we used that. Even now that I don't pump anymore we still use it. It's about $7 a bottle and one bottle lasts a little more than a month. And honestly, I only wash with the soap every other day. We sterilize the bottles every night so one day I'll just rinse them out with warm water and sterilize, the next day I'll use the soap and sterilize, and so on.
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EmilyFriend12
We use Dapple. We started because at one point I was afraid my son wasn't taking a bottle because it regular detergent made them taste funny. I dont think that was the issue but we still use Dapple. I think regular is fine too.
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lvangild
@EmilyFriend12,
We use dapple too. We had residue with regular dish soap.
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LoopsyLlama
We use regular dish soap for bottles but use the Ecos Baby soap for pacifiers.
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staciepdodson
At first I used Dapple. Now I switched to a "Free & Clear" store brand. Up & Up...
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emilyanemone
The lactation consultant at the hospital told us after LO was born to use Ivory soap on his bottle parts. I'm now using it for his sippy bottles, bowls, spoons and high chair tray too
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msdibutterfly
I just use regular blue dawn and haven't had a problem with it for breastmilk or formula.
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tt77
When our girl was in the NICU they even used regular dish soap. I believe it was the Palmolive brand that they used.
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