water for baby

hollandmama

what do you give?

hollandmama

I was giving bottled but he refused to drink it, today I tried with tap (dr. recommendation) and he loved it. I was wondering what your LOs prefer.

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He doesn't really drink water consistently, but I've given him water from the brita whdn he gets it.

babykk

Filtered through the fridge in a sippy cup, tap from the sink for bottles.

Pink724

Tap, so she gets some fluoride.

DenverBride2005

No water for LO yet but we pretty much all drink filtered out of the fridge.

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Tap with bottles and sippy cup. I gave up bottled water, too.

Clyde013

Bottled. I don't drink tap.

danigirl7181

You do tap (well water) through our Brita filter for both sippy and formula when we supplement.

TheLittleRedM

Bottled when we are out and about but tap at home.

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cuterusaurus

Brita

jackson290721

DD has yet to have water. I am fine with tap, but we buy bottled because I drink more water if it's super easy to get to. If I have to pour it in a cup, I never drink it. I'm weird.

jennipalmer

I use bottle because water in Vegas taste awful

lrichmond86

No one in this house drinks tap bc it's well water and tested high in some mineral that makes it taste gross. I guess it's safe, just icky (dh tests water as part of his job and would never let it be if it wasn't safe).

Sincera4

Most purified bottled water is glorified tap water. Buy a filter (Brita/Pur) or get it from your fridge filter. Same and cheaper.

danigirl7181

lrichmond86 said:

No one in this house drinks tap bc it's well water and tested high in some mineral that makes it taste gross. I guess it's safe, just icky (dh tests water as part of his job and would never let it be if it wasn't safe).

Does it smell like eggs? BILs well water smells like rotten eggs.

queenbone

I haven't given her water yet, but when I do it will be tap. 

Karebear6978

Filtered tap

rondosa

If by "give them water" you mean "allow baby to take water into mouth so that he can open his jaw and let it all run out down the front of his bib", then yes, we offer water. Filtered fridge water. I was told fluoride isn't good for babies, hence not giving straight from the tap for now.

lrichmond86

danigirl7181 said:

lrichmond86 said:

No one in this house drinks tap bc it's well water and tested high in some mineral that makes it taste gross. I guess it's safe, just icky (dh tests water as part of his job and would never let it be if it wasn't safe).

Does it smell like eggs? BILs well water smells like rotten eggs.

No, not eggs, more like dirt. Just... minerally

UTQT09

Filtered, we have a lot of limestone in our water.

hollandmama

Yay! So I'm now crazy for offering tap water! (Mom and MIL side-eyed me...) 

je2161

We give bottled water. Just a few sips with meals to cleanse her palate.

kt012885

I haven't given DD any water yet.  I did buy some baby water a while back in case I decided too but just haven't yet.  If we do tho I'll use the baby water first then probably do filtered.

Liz4444

Tap, fridge door, bottled.... I'm an equal opportunity waterist.

rondosa

somerandomchick said:

@rondosa Who told you that?? Fluoride is important for babies too! It helps their teeth just like it does for grownups. I did some googling and found that if you EFF you might want to do some bottled/non-fluoridated water because drinking so much fluoridated water can cause 'dental fluoridosis' (I probably spelled that wrong) which is just tiny white spots on the teeth that aren't really harmful. But that's because if you're EFF that's a LOT of tap water through the day We basically only offer LO water right now because the fluoride is good! She's happy to just drink BM. Not eating a big volume of solids though so we don't need water to move her poo along.

I guess it's because of the warnings about flouride toothpaste for infants and not overdoing fluoride, so I just assumed the same goes for water they are drinking. But I'll ask my pedi to be sure. I know Health Canada doesn't recommend fluoride toothpaste unless they are at risk for decay. Here's one article about it but I'll be sure to do more research https://www.babycenter.ca/a554806/caring-for-your-babys-teeth

rondosa

@somerandomchick, thanks that's good info I hadn't heard before!