To avoid illness in infants, formula and bottles must be sanitized to keep them germ-free

1. Wash your hands

2. Assemble equipment:

-clean bottles,nipples and rings to be sterilized; these should washed in hot soapy water using a bottle brush and allowed to drain

-large kettle filled halfway with water

-tongs

-clean dish or paper towels to set sterile bottles on

3. Bring to a boil and put bottles, rings into the sterilizer. Use tongs to push bottles under water.

4. Bring water to boil  for about 15 minutes and add the nipples and boil for another 5 minutes.

5. After 20 minutes of boiling,using tongs, remove bottles, nipples and rings ,draining the water into the pot. Set everything on the clean towel. When dry ,store in a clean and dry cabinet