bottle feeding

[jessicagrace]

when do i need to stop boiling the water that i put in my babys bottles?

[annie0000]

If you are using formula milk, you will always need to boil the water before making up the milk. When your baby moves on to cows milk you wont need water in the bottles anymore.

[jessicagrace]

Thank you for your reply, is it ok to just use unboiled tap water for her drinks of water?

[andrea81]

After a year you can stop steralising and you can use cold tap water for the baby's water. After a year you can also use full fat milk!

[andrea81]

sorry just to clear things up, I think I was a bid vage. You can use tap water for the baby's drink not as part of milk but as a thurst quencher after a year!

[annie0000]

You haven't said how old your baby is, but it is best to give her cooled boiled water to drink if she is under a year old - having said that, I think that the risk to her of drinking plain tap water before this is really small especially if she is getting close to a year old. I stopped sterilising and boiling everything when my son started drinking water out of puddles in the street and chewing on shoes - he was probably about 10 months then. It just seemed a bit pointless.He seems to have a cast iron stomach and is very rarely ill - maybe he learned to fight off germs at an early age.

[tracymort]

For making bottles you must follow the proper procedure always. http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/asksam/agesandstages /childrenandbabies/#A302871

Once crawling and eating dirt of the carpet (about 6 months) it should be fine to give tap water to drink but still boil water for bottles. Formula is risky when it comes to causing infections. Bacteria thrives in it.