When can I stop boiling water?

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And why does it have to be boiled only once?!

DD is almost 6 months. Thanks.

For straight drinking, or making up formula? You can use normal tap water from six months onwards.

As your DD is almost six months, if you've started weaning, you might as well stop now since the water in her food won't be sterile. If not, I guess I'd wait to the six month mark.

Why would it not be boiled once?

Sorry, missed a bit. You can use normal tap water from six months onwards for drinking. Need to keep boiling for formula obviously.

Thanks - I thought you should only boil it once as in you have to keep emptying the kettle?

If your DD is 6m, you don't need to boil water for her to drink, it's fine from the tap.

I don't know the rules for formula, but I believe that you have to use boiling to kill any bugs in the powder?

You are supposed to use water that has been boiled only once for making up formula to avoid mineral build up - or something like that!