Everyone has a different opinion and I know bottles for ebm are just washed and rinsed, however I have always sterilised until they stop drinking formula. Why? Because bacteria breeds in bottles containing formula, that doesn't stop happening just because bubs turns that magical 6 months. Same reason why it states on the formula tin to do it. Plus they still state to use cooled boiled water in the bottles.

I figure if someone is giving me instructions and directions on how to use their product, they have it there for a reason and I'm going to follow their direction cos they're the ones that should know best

I know I'm alone in my thinking though so I'll crawl back under my rock now lol
not alone at all while my boys are/were on formula I sterilised and boiled water

I mean really how hard is it to sterilise bottles its not like you have to boil them on the wood stove after collecting the water from the local stream , you wash you pop them in the micro, the elec one or solution bam its done not hard, as for boiling the jug and using cooled boiled water again its easy

OP not having a go at you but everytime one of these tyope of posts come up I think :gah: what the hell... crawlign back under my rock now too