How many bottles??

How many bottles do I need?

Well, how often do you want to run your dishwasher? :)

We started out with just a few bottles for Bubby, and they were all different shapes, sizes and types. Once we (I) had decided to only use the Dr. Brown's, we started collecting them and ended up with 18--14 large and 4 small. This is a number that works for us.

Bubbyabout a year ago. They grow so fast!

Once my babies are sleeping through the night, they take about 7 bottles a day--the 14 large bottles cover this nicely so that I can get away with running my dishwasher every other day instead of daily. I keep the other 4 small bottles ready and waiting for the diaper bag for when we are out of the house.

I'm not a real "germ-a-phobe," so I just throw all my bottles in the dishwasher--truthfully it gets the little thing that attaches the vent to the bottles cleaner than hand washing. My friend Carrie, God bless her, hand washed every bottle her daughter ever took--more on Carrie and her beautiful girl here--and that's great for her, but it didn't work for me. I could say that it was a time issue, but the truth is that I make a huge mess when I handwash anything and I think I was driving my husband crazy.

So, the number that works for us is 18--again, 14 large and 4 small. I like to use the large even when the babies are weensie because they are easier to hold--especially in the middle of the night when you are bleary-eyed and half asleep. We were blessed to receive many as gifts, because I know that bottles are expensive--but then again, so is dishwashing detergent :)