I had a midwife tell me while I was in hospital that I didnt have to sterilise bottles and just to wash them in soapy water. Ive sorta learnt not to take in all advise so I said to her that all the same I think I will be sterilsing our bottles. Has anyone had a midwife tell them this? Maybe Im wrong in thinking that newborn baby items need sterilising. Also I took my own bottles and formula into the hospital because I new Id be bottle feeding and they insisted that I use thier bottle. I thought OK tops. They ended up being really crappy bottles made out of really thin plastic stuff but what ever works. Anyway they told me that they were all kept in this kitchen area and to go up and make up formula and grab bottles whenever. I goes up to this kitchen and they are keeping the so called sterilised clean bottles in a cupboard not in the fridge. They use some kind of industrial dishwasher that sterilisers bottles cos it gets so hot but I was under the impression that they had to be refrigerated afterwards to keep them sterile. Once again maybe im wrong. Last time I was in this said hospital u had to get all bottles out of the fridge where they kept them and use special tongs to but teets on and all of this has completely gone out of the window. I decided that Id be better off at home and made up some excuse to go home cos I almost sure my son has thrush in his mouth now cos all of a sudden he isnt feeding properly now and snacks just like my daughter used to when I found out she had thrush too. He isnt windy or anything he just doesnt want to eat anymore and wants to feed every 2 hours instead of every 3.5 to 5 hours like in hospital. Im having him checked out by a nurse friend tomorrow about his mouth. The hospital i was in had also had a total of 19 c-section in the 4 days when Id come in to have my elective and 15 of them were bottle feeding. Maybe they figured that they were going through the bottles so fast there was no point in refrigerating them. Who knows