I am the opposite to Meg and your midwife and highly recommend Avent bottles. Both my DD got bad wind and colic from other bottles...but Avent was the only one that prevent all our problems and near had teat problems.
I got a $15 Target Brand (Baby love) microwave steraliser, which its great... It fits various sized bottles, so what ever brand you use, fits. I use it for the breast pump atm, and when I got it, I thought, if I switched to formula feeding I could upgrade to an electric steraliser.
HTH
I have the same one as Ruf -its great fits all sorts of stuff even now that she only has one bottle a day but I do her sippy cups etc....
Just keep in mind with dummies that they shouldn't be microwave sterilised as the heat goes too high for them and can cause the rubber to wear out quicker than it should which is dangerous. I found that a a hot kettle boiled and then poured over them in a bowl was fine to sterilise.
Same as ruf and tan for me - I picked up a Target BabyLove microwave steriliser for half price on sale, only cost me $12.45 I think. I used it for my breast pump, although current recommendations are now that a breast pump merely needs to be rinsed after every use in cold water and washed once a day, either on the top row of the dishwasher or in hot soapy water. Because it only comes in contact with breastmilk it is not prone to any bacteria (unlike bottles, which also come in contact with the baby's mouth - I believe, but check with the ABA on that one!).
I wouldn't buy an expensive one unless you find you bottle feed and need it after bubs is born.
We have the microwave Avent one - which we used for DS and was fine - we used both the avent bottles and the pidgeon ones. They are really only designed for avent ones though, but some people like them, some people don't - same as babies. DS was fine with any type of bottle, but I have found with DD she has problems attaching to a teat anyway, and so we have already found out that the pidgeon ones are best for her.
We are going to buy an electric steraliser anyway - so I will have my microwave Avent one to giveaway if you are interested? (together with bottles - cos I don't like the Avent ones - not for the reason Meg said though - it never leaked around his mouth - leaked whilst shaking for us.. )
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