Do you really need to use cooled boiled water to make up 12-24 months formula??

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I'm wondering why you have to if they can drink tap water at this stage and eat all sorts off the floor etc. Does anyone know if it's absolutely necessary?

Formula should be made up with water that's no less than 70 degrees for a younger baby to kill off the potential bacteria in it.

Dunno about for an older one. In your shoes, PTIYPASI, I'd try bfing again or giving cows milk (plus vitamin drops such as Abidec if you're concerned about her vitamin intake).

I will mention vitamin supplements again then ... used in conjunction with cows milk this is cheaper, tastier, easier and just as nutritious as formula containing lord knows what, since despite spending 20 minutes attempting to hunt down a list of ingredients for baby formula, I have been unable to find ONE. None of the manufacturers seem particularly forthcoming about what they are putting in it.

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Tap water is perfectly safe at 1 year old. just don't keep it.

ds had reflux, his formula had to be made up with cold water, i was worried about moving him to cows milk (his milk thickened so was less easily regurgitated) but had to when i run out of powder, he switched fine, is now sick less rarely than he was on the formula and wont take the formula even in an emergency. hes 14 month btw.

dd hates milk as do i, she hasn't drunk milk since she was 14 months old, she does fine with cheese and yoghurt for calcium and a lovely varied diet for the rest!

TBH I stopped bothering so much with sterilising etc. when I found DS licking the buggy wheels... he seems to have survived

and dont understand the need to keep tap water.

it's tap water, comes from the tap you can fill it as you need it, non?

and agree with igglewob, they come into contact with so much that tap water isnt going to hurt them at this age.

i acctually have a feeling i stopped boiling dds water for her bottles at 6mo.

i stand corrected that should read ibblewob my apologies!

i am off to bed keep talkign sh*te

LOL yes

When I found DS eating charcoal from the fireplace - some old leaf that had blown in from outside, a pebble, and a snail at less than one year I figured he was okay!

Knew i should have run away from this thread very quickly. I really just wanted to give my opinion on boiling water but am a slow typer and the thread quickly skewed away. And now I feel obliged to add more . In my dd's case, milk and a varied diet would have been fine if she was healthy and eating, didn't have lactose intolerance,nor a family history of soy intolerance or spit goats milk out whenever given. The fortified formula we used certainly helped my DD over a few bumpy months and reassured us that she getting some nourishment. At this stage, I really don't see the harm in using formula for the next few months,if only for reassurance, while your DD is recovering. Its not sausage rolls and fruit shoots.

I rather think you are an extreme and unusual case there elliphant .. and I'm not surprised you continued with it

for the vast majority of children there is absolutley no need for follow-on formula and it is only made for formula-company profits

I don't think any 2nd time parent would countenance it . .but the first time round you are learning as you go and it is easy to be swayed by the concerted marketing, pseudo-scientific well-marketed angle (believe me I used to do this crap for a living)

I started introducing cow's milk at 12 mths old in place of breast feeds in order to eventually wean her of the breast completely, which I did at about 14 mths.

Why introduce formula, then milk. Go straight to milk, do not pass go.

LOL Twiglet fwiw my dd is the youngest of 4 all of whom were bf and ff at different stages. I supported the use of formula here as the OP said her daughter was poorly and explained why I chose to use it over one yr. Certainly my DD is different, but actually not uncommon and it is important to note that soy and goats milk are not always suitable for anyone who has a lactose or dairy intolerance. Anyway don't want to be keep going on about this its not my thread and I hope the OP has had enough opinions to help her in her decision.