Whats the Best Way to Boil Water to Add Formula

I don't boil the water, I make my son's bottles with the same water that I drink (Brita thing in the fridge 'cause it tastes better). I caught him licking the outside of the trash can the other day, really, boiling water is totally pointless after that.

When my kids were that little we didn't boil the water. I used bottled water and it was fine. Try that.

As long as you are on public water supply, I see no reason why you would need to boil water. The tap water from a public water supply is required by law to meet primary and secondary drinking water standards. I never boiled water with either one of my babies.

T.,

Can't understand why persons would say that about the electric tea kettle. Everything seems to cause cancer these days - LOL. You can always try the regular kettle that you can put to boil on the stove. When my son was a baby, we would boil enough water and store in a large vacuum flask which kept the water hot for the entire day to mix his formula. Hope this helps.

Why do you need to boil your water? Is it well water? As for tea kettles causing cancer, that's a new one to me!! Soon they'll be telling us the water itself causes cancer.

I boil water in the microwave always in a glass cup.

Boil it in a glass measuring cup in the microwave. It's quicker and you can just leave it set in there until it cools off before use. Honestly, I never boiled my girls water. The doctor told me if you have good water there is no reason to boil it. I had my well checked by the health department and they said my water was great. No need to boil. You might want to get your water checked out.

T.,

I was doing this for my daughter till atleast her six week check up, when I finally asked my pediatrician the same thing... He laughed and said, "You don't have to do that anymore." And just as quickly as I asked, I stopped. No compliants, and I'm much happier. Congrats on the new baby!

Dear T.,

If you are in the City of Ft. Lauderdale and on city water, then you don't need to boil the water unless your pediatrician says you need to...the water is perfectly fine.

You also don't need to actually heat the water to make formula. If your daughter likes it a bit warm, just use very luke warm water to make it. Put formula powder in bottle, put water in and shake it.

I never warmed my son's bottles, didn't have time and he didn't care.

Best wishes, C.

PS My pediatrician told me not to use bottled water to make formula because it doesn't have flouride in it and that is the reason so many toddlers have cavitities these days. We just had our 3 year old dentist appt and so far, no cavities!!! YEAH!

Try using filtered water and then heating it up in a pan IN the bottle. In other words, make the bottle with luke warm or cold water in the bottle, then put in a pan with water and heat the water on the outside of the bottle (like double boiling when you're melting chocolate), thereby heating up the formula. It heats more evenly than a microwave (be VERY careful if you choose this method. I never would because it heats unevenly!!!)and you don't have to cool as long. Eventually we just used warm (filtered) water and didn't heat anything up for both of my kids. They liked it just fine. Also, this way we never had to worry about cooling, having hot spots or anything. ALWAYS check the heat of the bottle contents on your wrist and shake the bottle after heating so you make sure there are no hotspots in case it ever gets heated unevenly. Congrats on your new baby!!!

Stainless steel. And absolutely no microwaved water. A microwave changes the molecular structure of anything placed in it.
You can, however, microwave water in a glass container (measuring cup, for example) and place the cold bottle into the container to warm up the milk.

T., I know you had lots of answers already...but for both of my boys, I used the baby nursery water, and I didn't have to keep boiling water all the time and then waiting for the water to cool down. They do sell them as small bottles too. Check in your bottle water aisle at your supermarket. If you go to their website they give you coupons too on the spot...or if you have a winn-dixie nearby, apply for their little discount card and they used to send me coupons and some of them for that water. Good luck!

Boil the water for formula? I've never heard of doing that unless your water is unsafe. If you're on city water, you shouldn't have to worry about it. OR you could just purchase nursery water, if you're really concerned. We always gave my son bottles at room temp, and that was fine w/him.

You don't need to boil the water; you can use regular spring water, or, as long as you live in a place with clean water, you can use it straight from the tap.

i used nursery water for my sons bottles and it has added flouride in it so you don't have to worry about your baby not getting enough flouride. and at the beginning i would boil some water in a seperate container and then place the bottle in it until it got warm. but i learned quickly that by doing that my son would not drink his bottle unless it was warmed up. BIG mistake! whenever we went anywhere we had to find a way to heat up his bottle or he would refuse it. so i just started slowly weaning him to room temp water which made it so much easier!

We got one of those stand alone coolers that have the cold and hot water - where you put the bottled water on top. We put the powder in the bottle and add hot water 1/2 way. Then shaked it to mix and dissolve. Then we added some cold water to make it luke warm. This saved us more time than putting it in the microwave (yes, I put baby bottles in the microwave - I'm sure someone will gasp. I did that with four babies, 2 my own and 2 sibilings - they turned out just fine).

That's what we did.

Is there a reason that it needs to be boiled?

You probably should not be boiling water any longer. If you continue to do so then you are not allowing your daughter to build up a natural immunity to germs. Use bottled water you can buy by the gallon or if you are on city water you can use it straight from the tap.

Boiling water?? Never heard that or the cancer thing.

You can use glass pots the type made for top of the stove.
They are usually in colors. You will need to watch it carefully.

You can use a good grade of stainless steel.
Personally I would go with glass.
Aluminum pots can indeed cause problems. It causes an adults heartbeat to become elevated by a few beats per minute. When used to make coffee.

P. G.

Definately don't use aluminum - it has been linked to Alzheimer's disease. Having taken care of my husband's great Aunt who has the disease, I can tell you it's no joke.

As for boiling the water - I just used nursery water for the flouride, but didn't boil the water. I nursed for a long time, so by the time that she was taking any kind of bottle it was only the occasional one out in public. I did however - boil her bottles and the nipples to sanitize them. My new dishwasher has a "sanitize" feature, so the sippy cups etc just go through there now. Good luck! & have fun with the new baby.

A regular tea kettle and/or pot will do.

Out of curiousity, is there a medical reason the water has to be boiled? If not, than you can buy purified "nursery water" by the gallon at the grocery store if you are trying to avoid tap water. If you are just trying to warm up the water then a bottle warmer works really great too.

K.

We just used jugs of spring water at room temperature. No muss no fuss.

You could probably use tap water - they say in some cases it's better than bottled. We always used "Nursery Water" (though later I was told it was the same as spring - but I felt better using it ;>)

We never boiled- we just used bottled, much easier overall!

Hi T.,
I have two kids who grew up on formula and I never boiled water for preparing it. I used bottled baby water (sold in gallons in stores) to mix formula instead. It was a lot easier. But if you still want to boil it, I guess any kind of pot will do the job and I've never heard about the cancer thing...
Good luck
M.