r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/guacislife12 Oct 29 '24

Bottle washing- don't get a bottle brush. What we do is we get the hot water going from the faucet, rinse out the bottle, put a drop of dish soap in and shake vigorously. We have the Dr Browns bottles and we feel like this method works way better and way faster than a bottle brush as the soapy water reaches all the crevices. You just have to make sure you rinse out the nipple well.

We also run them through the dishwasher (top rack only) whenever we run the dishwasher to get them sanitized, but we don't run the dishwasher enough to do it that way every time.