What Kind Of Water Should I Use To Prepare Baby Formula?
January 8, 2010 by Guest Author
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Should I use tap, boiled, or bottled water to prepare powdered formula for my baby?
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I used bottled water. We get the refills at walmart for like 33 cents a gallon!
tap water is fine to use unless you live in an area that has poor water quality or if you are on well water
If you have poor water quality or well water, use boiled and then cooled water or bottled water. Nursery water if nice because it has fluoride in it.
Gallons of distilled or purified water is best. Since breastmilk is the gold standard of what a baby needs, and breastmilk does not have flouride in it, it is clear that a baby does not need flouride in their diet. Flouride is sometimes a byproduct of aluminum manufacturing and can be harmful to young kidneys and bladders.
It all depends on where you live, best would be to just ask your pediatrician. There are positives and negatives of all options. I would go with boiled, I think it’s the safest choice. There is too much going on right now about the negative effects of the plastic used in bottled water. Not to mention the cost of using bottled water.
I think it depends on the quality of your water. Our tap water is very good and, after talking to our pediatrician about it, that’s what we use. Since your ped usually lives in the same area as you do, they can probably give a really informed opinion on the matter.
Use bottled drinking water.
DO NOT use spring water or distilled water.
DO NOT use the baby floride water…it sometimes has too much floride causing tooth decay…as it did with my niece.
Make sure it does contain floride…just not too much!
I have read and was told that bottled water is bad for the baby.
I have only used tap water that is boiled and my son is 7 1/2 months old.
always boil the water , doesn’t matter if its bottles or tap
i have only used boiled tap water , but i would u boiled bottle water as well
I had a water cooler. I’d boil that water for formula. Just to be safe.
They have baby water in stores, dunno the name but its got a babys face on it.
Boiled or bottled.
Whatever is around and most convenient at the time!
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