Cleaning Stuff...Tons of Cleaning Stuff

Cleaning, sterilizing, bathing and washing are all daily routines which one quickly becomes proficient at.

1. Pigeon Cleanser
2. Philips AVENT BPA Free Microwave Steam Sterilizer
3. Pigeon Multifunctional Sterilizer
4. Pigeon Sterilising Tablets
5. The First Years Spinning Drying Rack

6. Philips AVENT BPA Free Bottle Brush
7. Digital Shower Thermometer Water Flow Temperature Sensor
8. Puku Baby Shower Tub
9. Digital Aquarium Water Thermometer
10. Free Johnson & Johnson Water Thermometer Card
11. Summer Infant Contoured Changing Pad
12. Pigeon Baby Detergent


First off is the cleanser from Pigeon, safe for cleaning and disinfecting vegetables and baby stuff. Use undiluted and strangely smells like sprite but is a little on the expensive side. There's other cheaper options at kiddie palace which is concentrated but doesn't claim to disinfect - which is unnecessary since we will be sterilizing them anyway.

Pigeon Cleanser

I initially thought microwave sterilization would be a good idea. After all microwave has been around for decades, safe, convenient and fast. Again it's probably not a good idea to buy bulky items like this overseas due to shipping costs. Anyway eventually we decided to simply go with steam sterilization just like what other "normal" folks do here in Singapore. This was written off as a wasted buy but eventually proved rather useful in conjunction with the Pigeon multifunctional sterilizer below, its large capacity allows us to store the tons of sterilized stuff while processing the next batch.

Philips AVENT BPA Free Microwave Steam Sterilizer

This Pigeon multifunctional sterilizer is a great buy. It is convenient, with large sterilizing capacity, allows for bottle and food warming. Although the bottle warmer seems to work slower than the Kinde Kozi. And sterilizes in about the same time as the microwave sterilizer.

We also considered going pure sterilizing tablets. All accounts indicate they are safe (so far), extremely convenient - you just use a single tablet in a pot of water and its good for sterilizing 24 hours. Good for outdoors or trip uses. But of course I don't think anyone would be possible to go anywhere in the first few months after birth. We certainly couldn't and wouldn't. But in the end, the use of chemicals just seem too uncomfortable.

Pigeon Sterilising Tablets

Probably the most underrated item. This humble spin drying rack holds all our baby stuff orderly and saves our extremely limited kitchen space. Again, this would probably be better off buying locally to save shipping.

The First Years Spinning Drying Rack

We should have bought these items together as a pack and save some time. Anyway, its just a baby stuff cleaning brush.

Philips AVENT BPA Free Bottle Brush

There are a lot of interesting gadgets on the net and came across this digital shower thermometer which I thought would be a nifty idea to use to keep shower water at 37 degree celcius for optimal baby comfort. Unfortunately somehow our instant water heater seems to compensate and we still end up with upwards creeping  temperature. The seller of this item is strangely located in Greece and this little item went traveling around the world from Greece to USA, crossed the states before finally getting to Singapore. Still this is an interesting addition to the shower.

Digital Shower Thermometer Water Flow Temperature NEW Display Sensor Child Lcd S

We bought this cute Puku baby tub during a baby fair at the Singapore Expo. Just a tub with a gauze option for holding older babies during showering.

Puku Baby Shower Tub

So the shower thermometer doesn't work out and in a weird flash of inspiration I thought of using an aquarium thermometer instead. It worked fine but unfortunately probably due to the cheap thermometer it is not very sensitive, with a noticeable time lag to reflect the temperature which makes it harder to mix right.

The star of the baby bath turns out to be a free thermometer card from Johnson & Johnson and I can't even recall where and how we acquired it. Must be from either the Thomson Medical Centre's First Born incentive goodie bag or something. Anyway its free, its fast and get the job done very well. We simply punched a hole in it and attach it to the tub.

This contoured changing pad is another star. It allows us to place the baby comfortably in any place in the house. On the sofa, on the table, on the beds..etc and we can even carefully move the baby around on it. It is waterproof, large-sized and comfortable. But due to the volumetric size shipping costs a fortune and then I found out similar pads can be found locally. Silly me.

And finally our choice of Pigeon's baby-friendly hypoallergic baby laundry detergent.