Infant Feeding Hygiene

Baby bottle with a baby and mother behind it

Babies grow quickly in the first year of life by drinking breast milk or infant formula. Careful cleaning, sanitizing, and storage of your baby’s bottles and your breast pump parts (if you pump milk) can prevent germs from contaminating the milk you feed your baby. Visit the following pages to learn more about how to keep your breast pump clean and how to clean, sanitize, and store baby bottles to help keep your baby healthy.

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) Toolkit

CDC’s Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) Toolkit provides information and resources for emergency preparedness and response personnel, families, and the public to ensure that children are fed safely when disaster strikes.