>When we command from on high, "you MUST
sterilise all feeding equipment, all the time, for any baby under 12
months", we are contributing unnecessarily to the already enormous
burden of mothers who are feeding fresh expressed milk. I think it is
vital to differentiate between artificial baby milk and the real, live
substance that is mother's milk. (And I apologise for not doing so in
my previous post). If freshly expressed mother's milk can be fed safely
from an clean, unsterile breast, it can also be fed fresh from a clean,
unsterile bottle.>

Generally there is no recognised directive in England *from on high* ie the NHS on when to stop sterilising. We lack common sense over here! (Why are we reknowned for all standing compliantly in queues!)
I'm concerned for those babies who don't have the advantage of being breastfed or of receiving expressed milk.
Thankfully the live cells, lysozyme & antibodies will protect the EBM from an unsterile, but clean (or not so clean) container. Artificial milk formula will potentially just incubate the microbes.

It's because we don't have the upper necessary limits/ages of sterilising equipment/boiling mixing water, as yet, that I'm asking, so hopefully things can be changed.
If there is research I can wave up & down, I may be able to initiate that change.


Sheila Company UK
In a land where time moves very slowly, & change takes forever.


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