When can I stop boiling the water my baby drinks?

[MUM2ELA]

Not for her formula bottles, but just the 'cooled boiled water' she drinks between. And when I stop boiling it, do I just give it to her straight from the tap or is it best to filter it? How about bottled water?

She is nearly 9 months old.

Thanks. x

HI Mum2ela
My dd is nearly 10 months and I still give her boiled water mostly. But saying that, she drinks her bath water and if the kettle is too hot and she needs a drink I give her tap water with no probs. As far as bottled water I think its not advised for a regular drink because of the lack of flouride and because you don't know how long its been sitting or how its been stored so could contain bugs ( if left in warm place etc.).
HTH

you can give a baby tao water from a year old.not sure about filtered water.

If you do a mumsnet search on 'evian' there's bundles of stuff about bottled water.

I give DS filtered water, well we all have it filtered. The tap water tastes awful in comparison.

According to my 'birth to Five' book from the HV you can gave tap water from 6 months.
Also when DS2 was only a few months old HV told me that Evian was one of the few bottled waters that babies could have, can't remember the other though...DOH!
I stopped boiling water for juice when both of mine were 6 months and they've been fine. Apart from the horns and fork tail they both have!

My HV said that you can stop at at the same time you stop having to sterilse - 12 months.

But I have had so much conflicting advice from 'experts' that I don't know what to believe !

I gave tap water from 6 months too. And used it to make ds' bottles up..... No ill effects so far, & he's almost 16 months now.

I gave tap from just over 6months if I can remember that far back (doesn't it all just blur!). I'm sure it's safe. Good old London hard water is full of minerals and perfectly clean.

Did you REALLY sterilize to 12 months?!!

The water I have in our cooler does not have to be boiled for babies bottles, I can just run the tap into the bottle, and I can choose chilled or room temperature.

It is from Rainpure Express, they recently lent me two coolers and gave the water free for an activity day for childminders. They deliver every week to me, the little ones I look after know they can help themselves to water at anytime, and they drink more because of it!

i sterilised until 12 months, it's not really any hassle to keep some in a jug (sterilised) in the fridge.

Never bothered to boil water (I tried it once and it tasted foul). Started giving tap water at around 6 months when weaning was well under way. Didn't bother to sterilise anything except bottles either. In the US, apparently, it's normal just to put the stuff in the dishwasher. We seem to have an obsession with hygiene in this country.

still do it and dd is almost 10 months - unfortunately the tap water here is horrible - very hard and full of junk.

In France, they never use boiled water for babies, not even for bottles, they think it's weird. They use bottled water instead Evian for instance

Having just confessed to never sterilising on the sterilising thread, now confessing to never boiling water for the children to drink either. Neither of them had much water before 5 months or so when I started weaning them, and after that there didnt seem much point. We have a private supply which comes from the river that runs through our garden, and it is filtered etc before we get it - pretty much natural scottish spring water! - so never saw any point in buying bottled water here, though having tasted some of the water down south I am glad we don't live there!

me neither susamt