I think every day is a little too often. I only wash and sterlize our dummies when they've hit the floor too often... Probably once a week or so. I figure as soon as I take them out of the sterilizer they are not sterile anyway so what's the point.
Mitchell licks the floor... I can't sterlize that, as well as every toy, hand, bib, sock and whatever else goes into his mouth at the moment.
Also I think that 10 minute for boiling is too long. I always thought 5 mins was enough for bottles so assume that it is the same for dummies too.
But all of the above is just me. If you notice a teat deteriorating then I'd bin it.
I was told by my peaditrician to steralise my DS dummies overnight so i have three alternating. They do end u going white eventually so thats when i bought new ones. He said to steralise dummies until his first bday. U dont have to do it this way its just what i did.
We have at least 6 on the go. For the first 12 months we steralised, but now they go in the dishwasher and then in to a container in a kitchen drawer.
For the first 12 months they went in to a container in the fridge after being in the microwave steraliser and we just got out a new one each morning or when needed.
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