” sterilize the bottle “
I would even lift the things out of the boiling water with a (sterilized) knife so I would not get germs on it.
No recollection about what we did with the subsequent kids, but it must have been very similar to what you listed.
FYI – on the “jokes” thread about 2 weeks ago, there was a long list of parenting truisms, many of which I had not seen before.