Clean as a Whistle!!

As I mentioned before, the downside of having a baby born in another state is the fact that you are stuck in that state until you are cleared to leave and come back to your own state.  This is fine and dandy while the baby is at the hospital, but once the baby leaves the hospital there is a great potential that the first few days of its life are going to be spent in a hotel room as I discussed in previous posts. 

The other unfortunate part we have found is that we may not have access to the "normal" sterilizing methods afforded to other couples.  This includes our baby's clothes and bottles.  So on Sunday, Jon and I had a baby clothes washing and bottle sterilization day.  Talk about the blind leading the blind.  You would thought we were working at the Department of Health in full body suits the way we were handling things in our kitchen.  We then placed all the prodcuts into air tight bags.  While we aren't as concerned about the clothing (as long as it isn't brand new and scratchy), we do realize that the bottles will need to be re-sterilized.  But this gives us the peace of mind of knowing that atleast it was done once (properly).  In the hotel, we will have microwaveable sterilization bags which will allows us to kill any additional cling-on germs.  We will probably continue to appropriately sterilize the bottles (with boiling water) every few months until we are selected.