Wee and poo are a LOT different to lead, chlorine and fluoride! If I had my time over I would absolutely filter the bath water for my newborn baby too. Chlorine ruins your body's flora. A newborn baby is trying to establish gut flora. The two are not compatible. Mum's poo and wee are naturally occurring and assist in creating that gut flora.
Can you birth in your bore water Sara? The idea of birthing in mineral rich spring water sounds like perfection to me. Water as nature made it, not how humans ruined it!
Tap water, absolutely yes it should be filtered - I said as much in my previous post. But the fact still remains that you would have to continue to filter the water even once the baby is born. That's what I was pointing out.
If we dont get much rain we pump bore water into the rain water tanks when we need too. But if we get plenty of rain the tanks are usually full of rain water.
But if I did want to, we could use the bore water tap to fill the pool.
Well probably not totally pointless and if it makes anyone feel more comfortable knowing they have filtered the water then it's not a big deal and it certainly wont do any harm, but yeah, I do find it silly.
I was thinking of bird poo from run off from roofs into the rainwater tank. Might be ok for big people but not too sure about newborns if they get it in their mouths *shrugs*
I wasn't going to filter my town water to fill the pool. After all I will be bathing the baby in it and it should be free from micro organisms that will make baby sick... That was my concern with the rainwater.
ETA: not that it is any of my business if anyone filters their water or not, it just seemed on topic to mention it.
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