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Rochel Leah ↓

Sun, Sep 05 2004, 7:45 pm

till now I have always given bottled water to my baby. he is 15 months now, can he drink sink water? in montreal the water isnt bad from the sink- I hope, cuz I drink it.

Yael ↓

Sun, Sep 05 2004, 8:29 pm

I have always given my kids tap water. I was told it's clean so I never thought twice.

proudmom ↓

Mon, Sep 06 2004, 12:03 am

The way I look at it if you will drink then it is ok for your son.

↑ Rochel Leah ↓

Mon, Sep 06 2004, 1:46 pm

proudmom, when my baby was newborn the doctor told me to give him bottled water/ boiled water for his bottles of furmula and for drinking. now he is finished with formula but for drinking I have just continued giving him bottled water.

it is more expensive, but I dont know why but I think it tastes better the tap water.

↑ proudmom ↓

Mon, Sep 06 2004, 2:32 pm

personally I think bottled water taste better. I dont like tap water. IT is healthier to give a baby bottled water becasue it is healthier becasue the tap has a lot of garbage in it. but if you feel its too expensive get a water filter.

rydys ↓

Sun, Nov 14 2004, 12:23 pm

Its actually healthier to use tap water from the start, even for a newborn. First of all, just bec. water is in a bottle doesn't mean it is filtered and clean. Also, babies need flouride as their teeth are developing and bottled water has very variable amounts--anywhere from almost none to 4-5 times the recommended dose. tap water in most major cities is flouridated and regulated and filtered well enough for a baby.

↑ proudmom

Sun, Nov 14 2004, 7:26 pm

What about all the garbage it has inside of tap water?

ForeverYoung
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Sun, Nov 14 2004, 8:29 pm

often bottled water comes from a tap in a different state.

If you're really worried - buy yourself a filet - this will save you some $ too and boil it.

↑ rydys ↓

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 2:24 pm

there is garbage in all water. tap water is at least filtered and treated. Bottled water could be coming from some filthy spring somewhere, there is very little regulation.

↑ Yael ↓

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 3:13 pm

the water in montreal I heard is very clean so I drink from the tap all the time.
its funny b/c when I was in sem here I refused to drink from the tap b/c I had never done it before (at home we have a filter)and I thought it was dirty. I used to fill up bottles of water at the water fountain downstairs to drink all day.
and now I drink only from the tap! its ironic, no?

↑ Rochel Leah

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 5:47 pm

Pesronally I have a 'thing' against tap water , I perfer botteld water, I think it tastes better..

if yousay tap water is ok to give a baby then why do they tell you to boil the water for bottles?

Tefila

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 5:53 pm

Quote:

if yousay tap water is ok to give a baby then why do they tell you to boil the water for bottles?

Atchually I was told by my ped, I could use bottled water instead of boiling for my infants!

↑ Yael

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 8:49 pm

I didnt boil the water.
its already clean.

↑ rydys

Mon, Nov 15 2004, 10:21 pm

I never tell my patients to boil water for their babies. I live in the US and the water is clean. Maybe in some less developed countries its necessary, but not here.

Rivka

Wed, Nov 17 2004, 4:17 pm

less dveloped countries? I was told to use cooled boiled water and that included tap water because it gets rid of any germs babies can't deal with.
I prefer bottled water but only certain ones, maybe the ones I don't like are really tap water re-bottled.
Also I don't like the tap water where I live.
Someone mentioned flouride in the water. Not every water company puts flouride in the water, where I was from there was flouride, and the water tasted great from the tap, where I live now there is no flouride in it and I think the water tastes vile. What this means is that I was advised to use adult toothpaste when brushing my childs teeth.
But really I would say unless you know that the water isn't clean then why not use it? I use the water I got a filter jug.
Oh and Yael I also used the drinking fountain but that was coz the water in sem was brown and weird and we didn't know where the water came from.

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