Cleaning a bottle is not the easiest thing to do without the right bottle brush. It is a simpler process than years ago when everything had to be sterilized. Boil the bottle, bring the nipple to a boil, and then boil the water you use to make the formula.
Now you just have to choose the best bottle brush and wash it. However, none of them seem to work very well for the background. One thing you never seem to get rid of is those little white spots at the bottom of the bottle. They are a build-up of sugars in the formula that sticks to the plastic of the bottle. No matter how well you try to clean them or how often you clean them, they somehow seem to look.
I had this same problem with my first baby and was very embarrassed when a friend of mine brought it up. She said, “Do you see those little white spots on the bottom of your baby’s bottle?” as my face flushed with humiliation. He went on to inform me that if I put a couple drops of bleach in the bottle and then filled it with water, they would disappear in the morning. Tried it that night and it worked like a charm.
I’m not sure what effect these little white spots have on our little babies and they probably never will. They are most likely harmless as my first baby never seemed to have any problems, but I sure felt better after finding this great cleaning tip. I always check the bottles for white spots and have shared this tip with many moms.
Try this cleaning tip and share it! You see, soon our babies will be safe from bottles with white spots!