at what age do you stop boiling water for baby's too drink?

Question

suggir- i read your profile there is follower of christ in the bible named silas. a saints name for baby boy.

i live in nashville tn and the water taste like bleach

Answer 1

Try buying nursery water at your local grocery store. It last for quite some time and you don’t have to boil or worry about the cleanliness of the water.

Answer 2

Okay this is one of those silly controversial things parents fight about all the time I have 5 kids ranging from 10 yro to 2yro I have never boiled water for their bottles. and they were always perfectly fine. You just have to do what is right or a mid point to consider whould be filtering the water through one of the water filtration pitchers. But if you have to go out of town you might consider taking along a thing of water for bottles.

Answer 3

I still boil my baby bottles and my son is already 10 mths. I just changed him to tap water recently. I think that it depends on the water in your city. I would still use bottled water if you didnt want to boil it. I have a suggestion though. Dont stop boiling the bottles and nipples etc. even if its only once a week. Boiling kills the germ that you dont kill by just cleaning if you have a dishwasher stick them on the top rack and it will kill the germs the same way. The water in the dishwater boils on its own.

Answer 4

My kids were all bottle fed. I used bottled water until they went on solid foods... then figured the fruits and veggies they were eating were watered and washed with tap water... I might as well go with that! Of course, we had GREAT water where I was living at that time. I'd been on well water at one point and wouldn't have given that to a baby even AFTER it'd been boiled!!

Answer 5

Myth 5 - You must boil your water before preparing your infant's bottle of formula.
This one is actually controversial. Boiling the water when preparing infant formula was universally recommended and was then thought to be unnessesary. In 1993, an outbreak of cyclosporiasis from contaminated water in Milwaukee prompted officials to again recommend that water be boiled when preparing infant formula.

If you live in a city with sanitized water and you are preparing bottles one at a time, then boiling water or sterilizing the bottles and nipples may not be necessary. You may be able to use this water out of the tap and bottles can be washed in hot soapy water or in the dishwasher. If you are not convinced that your water supply is safe or if you are using well water, then you should boil the water for five minutes before preparing formula.

However, the American Academy of Pediatrics does recommend that water that is going to be used for infant formula be boiled.

If you don't want to boil the water first, you could use 'sterile' bottled water instead. Bottled water that isn't marked sterile should probably still be boiled.

)personaly i NEVER boiled my son's water i went to the store and got this bottled water at walmart that is for babies!)

Answer 6

I asked my popular practitioner this question besides. He informed me that when 6 months your toddler's digestive music is greater developed and able to handle faucet water. i did no longer start up my son on faucet water till he grow to be 7 months nonetheless because of fact at that comparable time we've been beginning him on good meals and did no longer desire to be puzzled if there grow to be a reaction. Our faucet water is from a nicely and we've it examined 3 to 4 circumstances a 12 months. it extremely is astounding water without chlorine or fluoride. i'm not sure i might desire my toddler eating water that consists of chemical factors like that. in case you drink your faucet water nonetheless, then after 6 months of age, your toddler is effective to drink it besides.

Answer 7

I stopped boiling water for my daughter when she was about 4 months old. After that I started buying packs of bottled water to use with her formula. If you do decide to switch off on bottled water make sure it contains fluoride..Most waters have them, but there are a few that don't. I got the water idea from my daughters doctor.

Answer 8

I never did boil water for my daughter to drink. Her formula came in a sterile can and didn't need water. The water she drank came from our filtration system, that dispensed purified water, nope we didn't get it because I had a baby we got it because we couldn't stand the tates of the water where we lived.

Answer 9

Doc says to use regular drinking water. This builds their immune system and reduces the risk of getting illness when interracting with other babies/kids. They may get the runs at first, but they're better off in the end.

Answer 10

After 12 months it is fine for them to drink normal water. You can stop sterilsing bottle etc too now.