What type of water do you use to make formula?

My boys are just starting to get some powdered formula now that I'm preparing to go back to work in a few weeks. What type of water do you use to make your formula (bottled, boiled, distilled, tap, filtered tap out of the fridge)? I honestly can't even remember what I used to do for my oldest DS. Thanks!

 

I used the generic store brand distilled water for the first couple of months.

 

Bottled water only.

 

Great Question.

We only used Nursury water from Walmart..

I dont like tap water and dont drink it much myself unless I have too so Im not going to make my baby drink it.

I was wondering about buying a filter to put in the fridge.. I would be curious to see if anyone does this rather then buying bottled water all the time.

 

Hi, we use filtered water (from our regular water supply) and then boil it (per our pediatrician). We bought the filter at Home Depot.

 

We use bottled water for now... But apparently it's not good that it doesn't have fluoride in it, so we're going to switch to tap water. I'm not too fond of the taste but heck...

 

I'm kind of neurotic and we used Nursery water for about 4 months, now we put a filter on the entire water source of our house and have a filter on the tap. Our water here is tested fine, but I like to filter everything anyway.

 

I use sparklett's water for our bottles. I also won't use tap water because I don't like it myself. Our pedi said that Sparklett's was just fine.

 

We use the same regular bottled water that we drink. We don't worry about the fluoride because they use city water at day care which is fluoridated.

 

Filtered water from our refrigerator...we used bottled water for a while, but with the whole "going green" thing, we opted for this...they're fine with it.

 

filtered water from the tap. tastes good to me!

 

I have always used "Nursery Water" that has fluoride in it. Less gas for my children. I have gotten it at WalMart, HEB or Babies R Us.

 

We still use Nursery water.

 

Nursery water here

 

We have a Pur filter on our faucet. This is what I have used from day one. But my pedi asked did we live in the city or county and when I answered city he said ok, your water is fine. Our city water tastes fine normally but while pregnant I could taste all the minerals, etc. It tasted very metallic to me so I bought the filter. Now the water is perfect everytime. If you decide to do this just remember while the actual part you attach is not expensive, the filters themselves get expensive. But Walmart always has them in stock. Good luck.

 

I use nursery water

 

i started out using bottled filtered water then transitioned to the filtered water from the fridge.

 

We use regular old tap water or the filtered water that comes out of our fridge.

 

i use tap water, boil it, then add the formula when it is warm.

 

We used tap water. Our pedi said that it was fine for the area we live in, as long as we weren't using well water. Our kids didn't have any health problems, like prematurity, either so that may be part of why she okayed it.

 

We use filtered water. We've got a brita [ultra] container.

 

filtered fridge water

 

we have a brita filter and my doc said to use that. we have never had any problems (but they only drink a few oz/day of formula). i guess the boiling thing is still the best--but what a pain in the booty!

gl, jl

 

I used Nursery Water for their first year. Then filtered water.

 

I buy bottled water, here in Spain, as it is so cheap.

 

I boiled it for the first 4 months due to them being premature per our Ped and then I used the bottled nursery water until they went to milk.