Boiling Water?

[Erin_25]

We still boil Charlie's water for his formula, as it's just habit I guess & he will be on cows milk soon so it will not matter anymore. As for his water bottle, we just use filtered water from the fridge. He's outside eating bugs, dirt & whatever else he can get his hands when I turn away. So I figure filtered should be fine....provided the water is not heavily treated etc. Where we recently lived we wouldn't even drink the water...so it was bottled water all round. Currently it's rain water....sooo much nicer.

[Alan]

This would depend on the quality of your water. A few years ago in the Sydney area they had swimmers in the tap water and it was reccomended to boil the water for everyone not just babies.

[mrsmac]

Alan- I remember that!! we had to buy bottled water for school and have it in our classrooms, some schools boiled theirs and ladled it out from clean plastic bins.