Something that I have loved for a great while now is my Bottle Drying Rack from Skip*Hop. From the time that I discovered my husband and I were expecting, my mother has been on what I believe to be a personal mission to purchase any and all items that exist for baby. 
When she first brought this particular “necessity” to my attention, I wasn’t exactly keen on the idea. My kitchen is a modest size with limited counter space. Even as she was excitedly introducing me to the product, I was racking my brain to think of a way that I could gently refuse my mother’s well-meaning suggestion. I didn’t see the need for such a contraption and expected that I would simply throw the dirty bottles in the dishwasher when they needed to be cleaned; this was a huge misconception. Upon the arrival of the bundle of joy, I quickly realized that the child went through every clean bottle we had before we even had enough dirty dishes for full load (probably because we couldn’t even find the time to eat). After the first week of trying to “air dry” bottles turned upside down on a clean dish towel and realizing that a very unpleasant odor lingered inside the bottle from this process, I rung up the ’ole wise mother and told her by all means, purchase away. Let me tell you, this thing is wonderful. It has a place for all of the nipples and bottles to air dry without developing said odor and the brush is the perfect size to get in there and clean the bottle and nipples without much effort. There is no need for one of those pesky nipple brushes, as the Skip*Hop brush has a small tip that cleans the nipple with ease. The color Poppy (shown) is what graces our kitchen counter and I have even received compliments on it from ”non-mommies.” I tell you, as a first-time mother who sometimes possess the mentality of “just the basics,” my mother is God-send for pointing me in the direction of this beauty.
