water

[MUSA]

My son is going to be a year old in two weeks time, the other day i was giving him tap water, when my nosey sister-in-law said that i should be using cool boiled water. I can't seem to understand that, why is it a great deal?.

SIL is confused... & wrong!

If he was younger then it is supposed to be cooled boiled water (same as making up formula...) but at a year I wouldn't worry about it......

agree that SIL is wrong. tap water is fine from 6 months (except for formula!)

thanks for that guys, i always used boiled water when he was younger, but as he no longer drinks formula milk, i thought there was no point in boiling the water for him anymore.

SIL is wrong.

Maybe sil lives in a third world country!

Can I just ask - if you are giving cooled boiled water how long is it okay to leave it around for? Like if it's to have with lunch do you boil it an hour before, pour into beaker/bottle and then leave it cooling for an hour?
P.S. HV told dh yesterday that tap water is fine from 6 months.

Anyone?

sofiaAmes, i like your comment it made me laugh. my sil comes from india so you hit the nail straight on the head. I think she forgets where she is living.

great to hear this - there's quite a lot of advice that it should be a year, but i'm getting v fed up with boiling.

my mil who is a microbiologist said that boiled water was fine for 48 hours in the fridge. I thought she was probably playing safe so I stick to 48 hours out of the fridge, or thereabouts.

I didn't drink water out of the tap until I left home! My mum thought cold water was very very bad for your stomach - she did leave China when she was 13!