Stupid question: when can you stop boiling water?

[micromummy]

ds2 is breastfed and has just started solids aged 6 months, going nicely so far. I wanted to give a little water with meals (just to get him used to a cup). Do I need to boil the water? Can't remember what I did with ds1 (he went from breast to cup aged 11 months) but need to get ds2 off the breast a bit earlier (9-10months).

i think i waited til they were about 10mo but i am a bit too cautious cos my lot have a fantastic array of allergies and 'sensitive' tums. paranoid parent alert. someone else will prob give you a better answer but didn't want to leave thread unanswered!

I was going to wait till 1 year but saw little point when ds would pick things up off the floor and eat/lick them. I gave him tap water from there and tried to keep some good decent hygeine up everywhere to break him in gently!

no

the picking things up off the floor thing was why I wondered if boiling water was really contributing much...a bit of dirt surely a good thing, she says hopefully?

you dont need to boil anything anymore.
you do need tobe as clean as possible obviously,but a little dirt never hurt, in fact a little dirt is important to help build immunity.

tap water is fine from 6 months so no need to boil it now.

tap water at 6 months no problem.

Yes micro that's what I meant, and as pukka says will help build immunity for what is essentially quite a dirty world!

6 months.