Tap water or infant water

Executive Member Joined: Dec 19 2006 Posts: 399

I usually buy the infant water to make my 4 month old dd's bottle with. I ran out yesterday and have been using tap water since. is that so terrible? she doesnt seem to have a problem with it. what do u use?

Posted: Wed, Aug 13 2008, 11:31 pm Post subject: re: tap water or infant water

I either use boiled water that is cooled down, or filtered water straight from my fridge dispenser. but I'd like to hear responses if tap water is just as good.

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 27 2006 Posts: 4760

I also used cooled off boiled water. But I was really only very strict in the beginning. After a few weeks, if I didn't have boiled, I used tap.

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 3:16 am Post subject:

What on earth is store-bought infant water?

I just used cooled boiled water until about 12 months.

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 3:34 am Post subject: re: tap water or infant water

I also never heard of such a thing. what is baby water? we were using boiled water but my baby's stomach was not so good, so we tried bottled water and it seemed to be helping.

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 7:42 am Post subject: re: tap water or infant water

I also boiled water. I never heard of infant water. Now we have spring water delivered to us in 12 liter bottles so I use that. It really depends on where you live to use tap water. I usually started giving tap water, as is, when they were about 10 months, but that was when we lived in Brooklyn. Here, I don't even give tap water to anybody, unless it's boiled first. Wink

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 7:55 am Post subject: re: tap water or infant water

I heard its not so good to use bottled water that has been sitting around opened for a while.

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 7:58 am Post subject: re: tap water or infant water

Raisin, if you're talking about my 12 liter bottle, it's in a dispenser and it gets finished w/I a week.

Gold Member Joined: Feb 05 2008 Posts: 2427 Location: UK

never heard of infant water!

in england the tap water is very clean and safe, so I used that from 6 months, until 6 months, I used cool boiled water!

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 14 2007 Posts: 2569

Our ped. told us to start using tap water for the baby when she was 4ish months (I think?). It has flouride in it so that's why he recommended.

Posted: Thu, Aug 14 2008, 1:45 pm Post subject:

DS#1, I only ever used tap water. Sometimes I boiled, usually not. Not like he got formula all that frequently anyway.
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 03 2008 Posts: 100

In the begining I used poland spring water because I didn't have time to boil. Now I use boiled water. My doctor said I could use tap water straight from the sink but I would only do that if I ran out of boiled water.