Very surprised by this - but perhaps lots of mums do it.....

[welshmum]

A mum came to our house today with her 2 children. She seemed pretty strict on the food front for her ds - bringing organic juice, very healthy snacks and fruit but then when making up the bottle for her dd(6 months) she used water straight from our tap..... Does she know something I don't? Is it ok to do this? Anyone fill me in?

I can't see why, if you are using it straight away, there would be any more germs in milk made from tapwater than there would be in tap water.

Just don't use the hot tap.

Lucy - cold milk is lovely. I keep mine in the fridge, don't you?

Eaney - I know we have lead pipes because the survey said so when we bought the house. It was built 1939. I agree about running the taps - we were advised to do that too.