Do You Send Bottles Home To Be Washed?

[Starburst]

I supply my own bottles and keep them here. If parent choses to send in bottle it will stay here. I do receive BM in bottles containers but with flat tops. Those I rinse and return daily. I have on occasion sent home with bottle and bottles are never returned. I try my hardest to never send home with one.

It took me a minute to realize, that in this case, BM stood for 'breast milk'. I thought it stood for something else for a minute. ::

[tenderhearts]

My parent already has the breastmilk in the bottles for me each day. I wash them and send them home. I don't know if they rewash or not but I don't feel right not washing them plus I don't mind.

[Sunshine74]

Our center sends them home and the parents bring them back already made. For a long time we were not allowed to make the bottles (per regulations), so it had to be done that way. We just never changed after the regulations did.

[Patches]

Yes, it is in my handbook that they are sent home daily

[Patches]

I wash them here.

I wouldn't love the idea of them going home and then potentially forgotten everyday!



I don't send sippys or other eating utensils home for parents to wash either. Honestly the concept seems a little strange to me. For those that do send bottles home if you'd be willing to offer your reasons why I'd like to learn the other side of this coin!

I HATE dishes! Especially bottles and sippy cups (which I also send home daily). I have a few extra, just in case. The only things I wash are the things I provide: Plates, bowls, spoons, forks, and regular cups. I wash mine, they wash theirs

[Mom2Five+]

I require them to bring bottles to stay here and put it in my handbook after one of the parents forgot the bottles at home and I argued me down that they put the insulated bag with the diaper bag. I had to pack everyone up and go to the store and buy bottles and formula because baby was hungry and not happy. Now they have to bring bottles and formula to leave here. And yes I made the parents pay me back.