Formula - tap water or purified water

[stellarose]

I'm visiting my sister and new little niece.
Obviously I know purified is probably always a better option to use, but from your experience do you use tap water to mix your formula bottle or should you always be using purified water?

[mainelyfoolish]

I never used anything but tap water.

[brooklyn]

I always used tap water, but NYC has great water, plus my building filters it for us.

[carfar]

Tap.

[Deleted]

We only ever used tap for both boys.

[thebreakfastclub]

tap at home, bottled if I needed to make a bottle on go

[turtlegirl]

Always tap. But I drink our tap water too. Never thought to do anything different.

[dcrunnergirl52]

Tap

[christy082]

Tap

[Deleted]

I always used tap. Ours has been tested and it's all good. Same quality anything bottled..lol.

If I was anywhere else I used there tap water. I wasn't anywhere long enough really for it to matter/have an impact to worry about.

[osulori]

We used tap.

[stellarose]

I'm asking because I wanted to know people's opinions and experiences.

With my other nieces and nephews they had me use purified. My sister so far has just been using tap water and my mom is freaked out about it. She's worried about sporadic water contaminants like e.coli and not hearing about it soon enough.

[MNH2013]

We bought gallons of formula water. However, our water sucks and sometimes smells weird, turns our tub/toilets pink .

[steph196]

I always used those giant bottles of purified water with the spout on the front. I kept it in the cupboard with her bottles, so it was easy to access and dispense.

[meggers]

It was my understanding if you have decent municipal water, then use tap. If you don't or have well water, buy nursery water.

[VillainV]

We didn't make a lot of bottles, but when we did we used filtered tap water (from our fridge dispenser). I'm pretty sure his daycare used straight tap water when mixing bottles.

[Deleted]

I bought bottled water for the first 6 months until I realized tap was fine

[mrslisa]

Bottled. I am super picky about the taste of water. The water here tastes gross. We get those big 5 gallon bottles of purified water for our house and drink bottled when out and about. Even the filtered water here doesn't taste that good.

[jenn248]

I always used tap water. Our pediatrician said it was fine

[biogirl21]

The majority of our formula use was when we had well water. I still used it, filtered though our Brita. No way am I buying water AND formula.

[swimmette]

We have well water so I always use bottled. I use tap for city water when visiting my ILs or parents.

[Deleted]

Jul 6, 2015 15:01:43 GMT -5 biogirl21 said:

The majority of our formula use was when we had well water. I still used it, filtered though our Brita. No way am I buying water AND formula.

We have well water too. It gets tested regularly because of the farm. It's perfectly safe. It came back high-ish in a couple minerals but nothing dangerous. I used the filtered fridge dispenser for a little "Extra" but I don't think it mattered. My pedi said it was just fine. We also have decent tasting water here. My old did not. Ran out of the tap smelling weird and straight yellow.

[greencrayon]

Jul 6, 2015 15:04:16 GMT -5 @pennypie said:

Jul 6, 2015 15:02:51 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Not here!!! Our water is excellent.

You're north-ish, right? I'll give you that and amend my opinion to just Central Florida.

I'm in north Florida and my water is terrible!

[greencrayon]

To answer the question, we used tap at home, and bottled if we went on vacation.

[krystee]

I buy the gallons of nursery water. I'm sure it's no better than tap, but it makes me feel slightly better and I'm indulging my neurosis since it's not expensive.

[Deleted]

Another tap vote

[swimmette]

Jul 6, 2015 18:05:40 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

Jul 6, 2015 15:01:43 GMT -5 biogirl21 said:

The majority of our formula use was when we had well water. I still used it, filtered though our Brita. No way am I buying water AND formula.

We have well water too. It gets tested regularly because of the farm. It's perfectly safe. It came back high-ish in a couple minerals but nothing dangerous. I used the filtered fridge dispenser for a little "Extra" but I don't think it mattered. My pedi said it was just fine. We also have decent tasting water here. My old did not. Ran out of the tap smelling weird and straight yellow.

I thought that the official recommendation was not to use well water before 6 months. We use salt to filter our water, so that combined with the added potential of e.coli makes me a little nervous. If you leave a bowl of water to evaporate there will definitely be salt left (at least for our water).

[stellarose]

Thank you everyone this was super helpful!

[estrellita]

We just use tap water unless we are at the ILs where they have well water. We bring a bottle of water from home or use bottled water in that case.

[Deleted]

Our municipal water has fluoride so we did distilled water mostly because it comes in the big jugs.

I hated making formula in the beginning. You were so worried about contamination. Making sure everything was super sterile and not out too long. Washing my hands so much, I had to get cream to fix the dryness.
I was so jealous of Breastfeeding for that. I was boiling bottles and The lids and I bought a glass stirrer to avoid plastic. Trying not to touch the sides of the inserts. Then you dropped a bottle or the baby knocked it over. Meanwhile, breastfeeders were just lifting their shirt.

Then the baby was bigger and you didn't even care. Lol.