Does a dishwasher make things easier, yes. Is it necessary, no. Every person is different as to what is more important to them or not. My household we hand wash but even with a dishwasher in our apt. We use it as a drying rack. I ep first 6 months (then ebf) and didn’t have a lot of extra pump parts and bottles so it was a lot of work. More @Wikipedia
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