LOL - in Australia it is beaten into us to boil the water and I've never questioned it... We just boil the jug, fill the bottles, and leave them in the fridge for up to 24 hours, so they're there to make the bottle with.
My DS is turning 1 in a couple of week's time and I've only
just started giving him tap water... and I'm even terrified of that. I've only just stopped sterilizing his stuff the last couple weeks as well. We are crazy about bugs over here I guess
Plus he had dramas with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy, so I was probably a bit more paranoid than most, thinking that everything "bad" I put into him would make him sick - LOL!
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So I went to Costco to buy formula and the Costco brand was nearly half the price per ounce than Enfamil and seemed exactly the same...
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My only advice, find one brand and stick to it... It messes with their tummies too much if you keep changing all the time. I was like you and determined to breastfeed, but it just never happened for me so I had to put him on the bottle out of frustration... Not to scare you, and every baby is different, but I changed my son's formula about 3 times in the first 6 weeks, because one gave him wind, one didn't fill him up, etc, etc... and it got to the point where he started to bleed from his bowels. The doctors said it was Cow's Milk Protein Allergy (which apparently is very common in babies), but I have my suspicions that it was the swapping and changing the formulas that caused it all.