Why are mothers instructed to sterilize their pumps?  Do mothers using
formula sterilize all their bottles, nipples, caps, ect?  Maybe a few and for
a few weeks and then they realize that clean will work.
Moms do not need to boil their pump parts, hot soapy water, once a day will
clean them adequately.
So, I see we need to educate the public and maybe the health profession that
a mother expressing her milk for her healthy baby needs to think clean not
sterile.
If a mother called me because she ruined her pump parts boiling them, I would
tell her to stop boiling them.
No one came up with references stating that babies are being infected from
their mother's expressed milk.  I am not talking micro-premies, I am talking
healthy babies and mothers who are trying to manage pumping, working and care
of their family.
I agree with Lara that their is too much antibacterial products and we as
consumers are causing more potential harm than good.
Ann Perry RN IBCLC
Boston, MA



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