Does everyone use nursery baby water to mix with formula for their baby?

Question

I don't use the nursery water, i use our filtered BRITA water, formula is so costly and everything else, is it really necessary to use NURSERY WATER, i never seen this type of water years ago, is it a new thing or something

Answer 1

it is not that new but i would say 6 years new.no i do not use it never would..i bought a water purifying piture that i use for my self and my daughter..not because i think there is something wrong with tap water i just think it tastes better and so of course if i drink it myself i use it for my child but the nursery water is way to expensive but i know that all water comes from a tap i just like the taste of a little bit better purified

Answer 2

i use it because my tap water is not good at all. so for me its alot better then my tap water in ny.

Answer 3

Nursery water is distilled - meaning that they boil all the the impurities out of it. Whoever said fluoride is bad for babies is wrong. Fluoride is very necessary.

I don't buy nursery water because it is gimmicky.. I buy it because I have hard water and my son was getting constipated from our tap water. Plus the nursery water by my house is only 98 cents at Target... that is expensive?? I feel when it comes to my child that is not that much of a sacrifice.

Answer 4

For the few weeks that my son had comp feeds of formula, I just boiled the kettle for the water. There's no such thing as "nursery water" in Australia, I had to google it and apparently the American Dental Assoc. has advised NOT to use flouridated water to mix formula, which the Nursery Water company has blatantly ignored.

As the formula cans recommend, boiled water is just fine! Filters are good too - I stopped boiling my son's water & have just been giving him  the filtered water (for plain drinks, he doesn't have formula) since about 9 months old.

So, no, I don't use nursery water, and even if it was in Australia I would avoid it until baby was much older. I can see the benefit of giving it to older children if you don't live in a flouridated area.

Answer 5

It's just a marketing ploy, all they do is add flouride, which isn't good for infants anyway. And the brita filters can leave charcoal traces in the water as well, although it filters chemicals out. All we did was keep a kettle full of water on the stove, we'd boil it in the morning, and then all day we'd turn on the stove for about 2 mins for a perfect temp bottle. Good luck!  

Answer 6

No I use tap.It works better for us & we drink it as well.Nursery water isn't necessary but easier for some & some just prefer it..

Answer 7

I use what all our parents used good ole fashioned tap water!! Maybe it will boost their immune system. LOL!!

Answer 8

I didn't mix the formula I gave my kids it came as a premixed liquid  All I did was read the expiration label on the soy formula and made sure I shook the can before making bottles.  I also made sure to shake the bottles well before feeding.

Answer 9

Girl USE THE NURSERY WATER!!!! Especially if u live in NY. My daughter has only been here 6 weeks and the tap water has made her lead level shoot up to 16! USE THE NURSERY WATER! Boiling water with lead in it only makes it worse. either Nursery water or a purifier!

Answer 10

Nursery water is no different than any other bottled water. It's filled from a tap in a processing plant and then overpriced where panicky parents buy it because they think it must be safer than their tap water which is also safe to drink.  

Answer 11

i use nursery water. but its a personal choice.

good luck.

Answer 12

The American Dental Association says that infants should not be given fluoridated water.  Use water which has not been fluoride-treated.

http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positi...

Answer 13

i use it, yes

Answer 14

thats just one more unnecessary thing for parents to have to worry about or fall for and buy all the time simple brita filtered water is perfect as well as simply boiling the water and the stove and cooling it down of  course  

Answer 15

I breastfed only but then when I started giving water at like 6 weeks old I used tap

Answer 16

I have always used filtered brita water from the tap to make bottles and all the babies have turned out just fine. The Nursery Water isn't any different than any other water it's something to make you spend even more money.

Answer 17

its just another gimmick to sell unnecessary junk to worried parents.  

Answer 18

I do not use nursery water. I don't like the idea of giving my newborn floride. I understand it's good for their teeth as they develop but gimme a break.  We use a filtered water system similar to brita which removes the floride and all other minerals and such. I agree it is another product designed to freak parents out and make them spend more money. I was told to use bottled water because it removes more bacteria, but then again researchers are finding we over sanitize things and that is a leading cause for illness these days. Our immune systems aren't able to process small things anymore because they've been over sanitized for so long. On the other hand, our tap water is nasty. I wouldn't drink that c**p unless I had to. The way I look at it is, if I'm not willing to put it in my body, I'm not putting it in my baby's body.  

Answer 19

I use Nursery Water.. but that's just a preference. I'm sure it's not necessary. I just like the fact that it has 'added fluoride' .. =]

We also use regular bottled water as well .. =]