Boiled Tap Water vs Purified Water

I live in CT, and I must confess I am not a water boiler or a buy purified water.

Tap water is okay for me and my brood.

The only reason the water went into the kettle or came out of the kettle is because I wanted it warm or hot.

I am not sure if my kids will grow a second head or .... maybe do a bit horrible at school because they had tap water, but so far, so good.

<I must confess however to being totally addicted to that pink VITAMIN WATER stuff in the big thick bottles - I have no idea what they put in that stuff, I am sure it is cocaine, as I cannot buy or drink enough of that stuff......>

We use only a little boilt water to dissolve the formula powder and then top it up straight from our water filtering system. It filters out almost ALL dissolved solubles - my current TDS (total dissolved soluble) count is 4 and my normal tap water is over 200.

We just recently moved to CT from Pakistan and Ruru was 7 weeks when he arrived in Pakistan.
The tap water there is undrinkable so we used bottled water for everything!!!
I never boiled his bottled water, he's a formula baby (from 3 months) and he's fine...
We used nestle bottled water and baby thrived and is still doing good

I must confess I dnt boil the tap water for his Nido even now....

Memo - your little man is not a tiny baby anymore so his body can process water better than a young baby. The cheaper bottled water is usually just spring water or sometimes 'cleaned' tap water. I wouldn't be overly concerned about spring water, it's natural water. Distilled water you buy in a hardware shop (put it in car batteries etc) so doubt you'd drink that and mineral water is more expensive because of the added minerals etc.

O wow, I knew none of this! Lord.. so now what? I buy bottled water, the cheap variety cos it also tastes best to me, and we all drink that without boiling

I was always taught that when boiling water for babies, you should empty the kettle, re-fill with tap water, boil ONCE and pour into bottles. Boiling more often can cause concentrated minerals etc that are not boiled off in the steam. That said, most of the babies I've cared for have had boiled tap water for the first 6 months and then just regular tap or bottled water (if out and about) for drinking and only boiled water for bottles (purely because of mixing milk powder into it). When giving bottled water to babies I would give Spring water but not mineral, distilled or purfied water. Just remember that water naturally has minerals in it, which change depending on where it's source is and what route it takes (which is why some people get tummy upsets if they move and drink the local water which their bodies are not used to) and your body needs naturally occuring minerals, just not added ones (like in mineral water). Water with nothing other than pure H2O (distilled water) is dangerous for you so just check how they purify their water. Some purified water means just harmful bacteria is taken out, some mean everything is taken out which essentially makes it distilled,

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I was just wondering, when do you stop boiling water for your babies?

I went to a place called Perfect Water today ( www.perfectwater.co.za ), and they told me that by boiling our tap water we actually make it more harmful for our babies. Its something to do with impurities like lead etc, though boiling does remove bacteria. They do water purification and they claim that we can give it to our babies unboiled. Does anyone else do this? She showed me on the Nestle bottle I took to refill that is has 214 undissolved solids( I think thats what it said) and our tap water has only 80... This was shocking. And essentially our water should be pure and not contain minerals etc, and if you check their label its says nil. It was just an eye opener.

What is your take?