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when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« on: June 17, 2008, 10:23:22 am »
My dd2 is one year old now.  At present she has cooled boiled water still to drink and i still use steam and cold water sterilisation to sterilize her milk bottles.  I just wanted to ask what the current guidelines are on when they can have water from the tap and when sterilisation is no longer neccessary - or just what you guys do?  :-*
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 11:12:11 am »
Water from the tap is 6 months in the UK - Not sure about bottles - I don't think there is an official answer - I just checked in my birth to 5 book - it doesn't say.  I haven't sterilized any feeding equipment since 8 months but I still do the bottles.
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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 11:13:24 am »
Current guidelines 1year to sterilise, 6 months old to drink tap water :)

i stopped sterillising before a year though (naughty mummy) lol. So yeah u can defoo stop sterilising and use the tap water :)
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 18:56:40 pm »
cool  ;D

I always thought it was a year old for yap water?  :-\
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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 18:57:43 pm »
I did too, until my hv laughed at me when I asked her and said well, yeah you could have given jack tap water six months ago! how rude of her ;) xxx
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2008, 18:58:05 pm »
er i mean TAP water lol

Dp would say I drink YAP water lol lol  ;D
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2008, 19:15:25 pm »
The info given by various health professionals is varying when it comes to steralising.

My HV said it was ok to stop steralising at 6 months as at this age they are putting everything in their mouths that they pick up and basically when you start weaning you don't steralise the spoons and plates etc.

I stopped steralising for DD at about 7 months.
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« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2008, 19:18:09 pm »
OMG Paula look at that avatar!!!  she's grown up soooo quick!!!!   :-*
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« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2008, 19:22:18 pm »
LOL I know, it is going way too quick for me  :'(
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« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2008, 19:37:00 pm »
It does doesnt it  :'(

Its hard to imagine my LO was only 2 weeks old this time a year ago  :'(
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2008, 20:02:45 pm »
We gave tap water from 6 months and are still sterilising bottles. The UK guidelines are 1 year as pp have said - I think this is because guidelines also suggest swapping to sippy cups by 1 year. When I questioned my HV on it based on the "but he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth" her reply was that milk can grow nasty bugs if you don't do it ::). So I am totally paranoid now ::).

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« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2008, 20:30:37 pm »
I know what you mean.  We rinse bottles throughly in the sink, and then put in the diswasher on a 65 degree wash, so know that they are as good as steralised.
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2008, 20:37:44 pm »
My only dishwasher is DH and I am always telling him he doesn't use hot enough water so I think my refluxer has enough to cope with without daddy giving him a dodgy tummy.  ;D

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« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2008, 20:39:29 pm »
LOL at your DH being the dishwasher.  How did you persuade him to do that?
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Re: when can LO drink tap water and how long do i sterilise bottles for?
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2008, 20:44:31 pm »
Gosh I never knew about the tap water! Its something Ive been wondering. So if Im making juice in his sippy I can use tap water? wow that'll be so much easier.

I still steralise bottles, I probably will until 1year although Im dying to be over with it all.
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