Our facility has a policy to continue to provide sterile collection bottles
for all mothers who are expressing their milk for their NICU baby.  I have
heard that some hospitals provide a set number of bottles and instruct the
mothers to clean/boil them and continue to re-use the same set of bottles.

 

I have not been able to get a statement from a company that would say they
"recommend" re-using bottles for the mother pumping for her baby in NICU.

 

What do other facilities do?  With the financial challenges facing hospitals
I would love to find a way to cut down on that continued expense as long as
we are not exposing the NICU babies to a greater risk of infection.  

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas shared.

Evelyn Landry, RN, IBCLC, RLC


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