Washing?

[roomster]

Hi all

Im starting to wash a few bits for the baby, mainly babygros etc. for hospital back which i want ready. I was wondering does everything need washing beforehand besides clothes and towels i.e bibs, muslin squares, blankets?

Thanks

[warpig3]

I think I have washed more or less everything the baby will need in the first few months (0-3), very carefully I might add. Don't want to be putting the piglet in an off white/grey baby grow although it would match my knickers tho'.

[natalie_1982]

Good question roomster - can I hijack it just a lil bit pretty pretty please? Only i was wondering this too, and what about bottles? Do they need sterilising prior to use too?

[redcrx]

yes nat, bottle will need to be sterilised before baby uses for first time.
If you are giving birth in hospital and bottle feeding then Im sure the midwives will have a bottle ready for first feed.

[redcrx]

if youre washing clothes in case baby is allergic to anything on them then it follows that you should wash blackets too. If youre just doing it to make them soft and smell nice then its up to you what you wash.

Make sure is non-biological washing powder

[natalie_1982]

Thank Red, that makes sense. I hadn't thought about washing clothes or blankets to be honest but wondered how you would go about sterilisng bottles, as it's unlikely you will know exactly when you're going to need them! LOL

[redcrx]

baby is unlikely to want to feed immediately after birth although you could just try and breast feed if you wanted.

Mr CRX gave little un his first bottle. it was a glass bottle with teet on that came from a vending machine at the hospital, the midwife brought it in for us. he had 2 of those before we went home and once home i just put the bottle on to sterilise ready

[warpig3]

Oh, I am rather proud of myself, I have actually managed to do something without being reminded, lol.

On a slightly unrelated theme, I was checking my bottles and I filled one up with water and had a suck. Dear god, it was difficult, I had to suck really hard to get the water out. Is this normal, has anyone else tried it, if not, go on, give it a go. I am just wondering if I breast feed what the heck are my nipples going to be put through?

[redcrx]

thats what your nipples are designed for warpig lol

Have you actually noticed though that you dont just have one hole in them but that they are more like the head of a watering can.

[warpig3]

I have just checked redcrx, there is definitely only one hole right in the middle, a pin prick really, should there be more?

Hmmmm, I have some fisher price ones (from the sterilising unit) and some dr browns and the both have only one hole in them although the hole in the dr browns look bigger.

[redcrx]

psst, warpig, i meant your nipples not the bottles lol

[redcrx]

by the way, once baby is a bit older, if they look like they are struggling to get milk from bottle you can get variflow teets that have a cross shaped cut instead of a hole

[warpig3]

ROFL, I cant believe I am such a dunderhead....... and there was me thinking I was doing so well by washing the clothes. Will have closer inspection of said nipples later.

Still laughing...................................

:-o)

[redcrx]

i wonder who else ran off to check the bottles / nipples lol

[warpig3]

warpig silently prays 'please please please let someone else go and check too, pleeeeeeeeeease'

[roomster]

Thanks guys. I probably will wash everything (in non bio of course!) just to make them nice and fresh!

[sense4all]

PMSL you lot need chaperoning - honestly! To get your nipps supple and avoid cracking during breast feeding get yourselves a tube of kamilosan and start rubbing it on your own nipps ( not the bottles) before little un makes an appearance.

[B00]

Do you mean new clothes that you've bought for the baby?

Heck, I didn't wash any of them! Are you supposed to?

[annie0000]

I didn't wash anything anything in advance - what a bad mother I am!!!!

[B00]

lol annie, im thinking im exactly the same, I figured the clothes were clean enough, being new and all, and besides I knew my washing intake would increase once Mini Boo arrived.

I'm curious why you have to/ should wash them first?

Are we bad bad mums now? :-(

[annie0000]

My husband has become allergic to anything fragranced and most of his clothes now, so I suppose there is a valid reason for doing it, I just never thought that at the time - besides, the mess they got in, it was only a matter of hours before they ended yup in the machine anyway!

My second son had a lot of his brothers baby things anyway, so I guess that they had all been washed.