Wobbles

Boiling, cooling & fridging bottles for formula I assume you do it ALL the time they are on baby milk even though you can give tap water etc from 6 months but my OH said about stopping this (boiling, cooling, fridging) & making her bottles up from water ...we have a filter kettle & a filter jug so basically at bottle time use the filter jug (no pre-boiling) but I turned my nose up at it until I looked at Google and was amzed to find people do stop using boiled, cooled water and even make up formula bottles straight from tap water if in an ok water area ...

Your thoughts girls?

babezone

i would have thought it would be ok as long as the water was filted like u no a briter water filter thingy. but hey i no expert so prob best of waitin for sum others to reply lol x x x


p.s. after all the boiling side of it is so its like sterile and filted etc. xx

Wobbles

We have Brita kettle & jug so she has always had filtered water x

babezone

yer i dont see any prob with it then i mean its filterd jus not made hot ay x

Wobbles

See what the other girls think/do

But I guess when you think about it it does sound like people do stop boiling along with the fact I've read people do it in fact seen some say they have never boiled water!

Jazzy

I don't see any problem with it hun

Tilly

I think we carried on boiling and sterilising for longer than they suggest - can't remember exactly, but think we stopped sterilising at around 7-8 months and we carried on boiling for a bit longer too. I think it's better to be sure than sorry, but we live in a more hard water area so I was careful.

sam's mum

I don't see any reason to carry on boiling once you're not sterilising everything for her - once their immune systems are mature enough to handle any tap water and they're used to it, I can't see why there's any need to boil water for formula (they'll already have developed immunity to any bugs we have in our water) x

Wobbles

So you used tap water for formula Tilly at 7 months?

I'm still sterilising bottles just not resterilising if its past the 3 hours before I make up her bottles!

Tilly

Na, we carried on boiling her water for a while but like I said, it's fairly hard water around here and I was over cautious. I would do the same with any of my babies though.