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Not boiling water for bottles after 6 months?
Hi ladies,
Just wondering if any of you have heard this?
A few of us in my 'born in forum' have been told by various HV's that after a baby is 6 months old there is no need to boil the water used to make up their bottles - am just wondering if any of you have done this/been told this?
I know we need to still steralize until they are 1 year.
Any help would be great.
Thanks xx
Just wondering if any of you have heard this?
A few of us in my 'born in forum' have been told by various HV's that after a baby is 6 months old there is no need to boil the water used to make up their bottles - am just wondering if any of you have done this/been told this?
I know we need to still steralize until they are 1 year.
Any help would be great.
Thanks xx
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I can't believe your HV's are giving you advice that could make your lo's poorly :roll:
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exactly what i thought, u acn't make milk sterile xx
i honestly thinhk that if a milk does say to use boiling water its to help it dissolve, u can't make a food stuff sterile...which is why they say to use with in 2 hours , because its not sterile. and we can't have cartons, they don't come in the soya variety which is mightily annoying, but we we use those tt dispenser things for if we're out andabout, all tho it wld be easier just to get out a carton. x
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We've managed to always use hot water to make pippa's milk, i phoned the milk manafacturer and they suggested buying a flask boiling the kettle filling the flask in a morning and using this water to make her feeds, then emptying it out and refilling at lunchtime and so on .once the milk is made either run the sealed bottle under the tap or stand it in some cold water to cool it (takes no longer than to warm it up) and then use it straightaway. It worked really well for us doing it this way and i was happy we were doing it following the guidance as much as we could, i know people use to do things differently but guidelines are there for a reason not to make life difficult.
Pippa now has tap water from her cup, and we still make her milk this way and sterilise all her bottles, she's nearly 9 months now
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deited to say boiling, i originally wrote boiled lol, it definately has to be once boiled, but they do say not to add powder to boiling water. xx
[Modified by: siany on December 31, 2009 10:56 AM]
In answer to your original question - I think that like all things it depends on your individual baby, like someone else said earlier, I also forgot to boil some water one night, and didn't fancy making Abby (then 7 months) wait until it had cooled so I used raw tap water, and she was fine, so ever since I have used raw tap, and she has always been fine.
I think that as long as I give her the bottle straight away, (so dont give the bacteria in the milk any time to breed) then it is OK. As it's already been established that the water doesn't kill the bacteria in the milk - I think it is juts that milk is a perfect breeding ground for bugs. So as long as they dont have time to breed, I think it's OK.
Of course if Abby gets sick because off it, I will feel terrible, and will need a serious re-think.
So in conclusiuon, my 2p worth is that it depends on the baby, and how lazy/forgetful the mother is!
Nx
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[Modified by: mel7 on December 31, 2009 01:04 PM]
Same as others I thought it was to kill the things in the water rather than the milk. I thought it was the same reason as not to use bottled water to make up feeds, but use tapwater instead.