Day trips - how do u get fresh boiled water for feeds and sterilise stuff?

[lilbeanhoping]

Oh im from bc, canada and our hot tap water is meant for drinking. Didnt consider elsewhere it may not be. So here its totally safe to use.

 

[josephine3]

Yep our hot water is just meant for washing. It tastes horrid.
Maybe the recommendations are diferent over there i never knew? Maybe thats why i see so many women using just cold on here.. I kno ours say to use fresh boiled water that has beeb leeft to cool in kettle for half hr so its still hot enuf to kill the bacteria in formula.

I could pump and dump but its such a waste. I do still bf morning and night but am tryying to wean her onto formula/bottles in the day. Its going reall well so i wouldnt want to go backwards. It would be far easier just to bf tho i did consider it.

I think i will take a big flask out for the day for formula, pump right before we leave then sterilise the pump and pack it up so i can at least pump once while we're out! To be fair its freezing here theres snow on the ground so the milk wont get too hot anyway.

 

[beth_terri]

Yep our hot water is just meant for washing. It tastes horrid.
Maybe the recommendations are diferent over there i never knew? Maybe thats why i see so many women using just cold on here.. I kno ours say to use fresh boiled water that has beeb leeft to cool in kettle for half hr so its still hot enuf to kill the bacteria in formula.

I could pump and dump but its such a waste. I do still bf morning and night but am tryying to wean her onto formula/bottles in the day. Its going reall well so i wouldnt want to go backwards. It would be far easier just to bf tho i did consider it.

I think i will take a big flask out for the day for formula, pump right before we leave then sterilise the pump and pack it up so i can at least pump once while we're out! To be fair its freezing here theres snow on the ground so the milk wont get too hot anyway.

Just to be awkward in the uk different brands of formula have different instructions too. Some need making with cold water. Some need the water to be boiled and left for half an hour. Some need to have boiled water xx

 

[josephine3]

Really?! Iv never seen it. Which brands? Its not an area thing is it. Im in the midlands

 

[lilbeanhoping]

Would boiled water in a thermos be ok? Or even that your water wouldn't be good for?

 

[Snow Owl]

Josephine: UK mum here. I'd have no issues drinking warm water here! (Ok I'd let it cool as warm water is weird) but I'm pretty sure it's not treated any different to cold water!

 

[joo]

I don't have any suggestions as I'm a new mum & was wondering this myself. I just wanted to add that unfortumately some places won't give you boiled water to make your bottles or warm them! Due to the health & safety and claims culture these days. It's ridiculous isn't it? So probably best to check when you go in before getting seated & ordering your food

 

[DragonflyWing]

Do you have different pipes for the hot and cold water? I'm confused how one could be treated differently than the other. Here, it all comes in in one pipe, and you have a water heater for hot water.

 

[joo]

I was confused by that too. I'm in the UK & hot water comes from the cold mains so is the same water that comes out of the cold taps, it's just heated by a water heater ( a combi-boiler in my case) tbh i don't really like tap water anyway.

 

[kat2504]

If you decide not to use cartons then a thermos is the best way of getting water at the correct temperature.
The reason not to use the hot drinking tap is that in the UK many houses have a hot water tank where the water gets heated up. Obviously it enters the pipe through the mains supply the same as the cold, but who knows what is lurking in your hot water tank and also it could be sitting in there for a while. Definitely don't drink the water out of the hot tap! In any case it isn't hot enough in most houses to mix formula with. Ours certainly isn't 70 degrees. I appreciate that the instructions are easier for formula in some other countries but I'd stick with the instructions on your own tin as perhaps it is manufactured differently over there. Cooled boiled water does not mean cold water that was boiled hours ago. Strictly speaking, it means freshly boiled water that has spend half an hour maximum cooling down a bit. But anyway, I'd avoid the hassle and use cartons for the day. Or, if you take breast milk out of the freezer, it will take hours to defrost! Especially in this weather - in a cool pack it would be good all day I reckon.

 

[josephine3]

Thanx u explained it better than i could!