Is Tap Water Ok? - Infant Care (up to 18 months old) Message Board

LYNN9731 · 12-01-2005, 08:05 AM

We Are Going To California The Day After Xmas For One Week. We
Live In Ny. The Plane Flight Is About 6 Hrs. Plus Time Spent Traveling To And From The Airports. We Normally By Water
At Babies-r-us But I Don't Want Bring A Big Jug Of Water With Me. Is It Okay To Use Tap Water For His Bottles Or To Buy Small
Water Bottles Like Poland Spring. My Son Will Be Almost 6 Mths The End Of December.

jmcummins3 · 12-01-2005, 08:10 AM

Personally, I would use the water he is used to, but there is nothing wrong with giving a baby tap water as long as it's city water and not well water. If you switch, he might get diarrhea for a couple days but it wouldn't harm him. You can ask your doc what they think too.

andilyn · 12-01-2005, 08:22 AM

We also buy infant water for my DS who is 5 months. When he was 3 months, we went on vacation for a week, so what we did was for the plane and the time to get to my mom's, we filled a few small water bottles with the infant water. It worked well. And then when we got to my mom's, she had bought a few jugs of his water to use while we were there. I am not sure if you could or not, but you could always buy some water once you got out there, but maybe you won't have a vehicle or a way to get it. If not, then you could at least see how many little bottles you could fill up with the water, and then once you're out there, I'm sure using tap water would be ok, but like jmcummins mentioned, it may give your son some tummy troubles. So maybe your best bet would be to use just a brand name of bottled water like you had said.