Alternative to Nursery Water

I'm not so sure what I feel about floride in water, to tell you the truth. My mother who has advanced stage 4 cancer reads everything she can and has removed using floride completely. So has my sister now too that she's read some of the info my mother has come across. As a child, she wouldn't even let me get floride treatments at school so you can tell my mother has always had a hightened awareness of things. Maybe a little too much but who knows. Needless to say, I would recommend having a RO (reverse osmosis) system installed into your home. It removes everything possible from your water, included well water. You will get a very pure water right from your kitchen so no lugging heavy gallons of water around anymore. And it's a lot less expensive. We pay $16.00 a month for our system and it purifies up to 25 gallons a day. I love our system. I used to have a Britta, as the other mother suggested, but it's slow and you can only have about a gallon at a time. And forget about it if you're in a hurry. Plus the filters are not cheap which we seemed to go through a lot. The system I had installed is far less expensive and we always have pure water right at hand.

We went through Professional Water Systems Inc
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There are bottled waters that are purified by reverse osmosis. It says so on the label. I think Dasani and Hinckley Springs both offer reverse osmosis purified water.

We buy distilled water. Distilled water is the steam that is collected when boiling water. So you don't have to worry about any junk being in the water.

There are generic nursery waters that I don't think have the fluoride in them.

I know when I run out of nursery water and can't make it to the store I give my lil one water from my Brita pitcher... so that is an option. However, if I were you I would talk to my pediatrician about it because...

#1. Your little guy is SO little and probably has special needs
#2. MY pediatrician specifically told me to make SURE to use water with flouride
#3. Well water may be different than the tap water I use

Good luck hon and let us know what happens... I'd be curious to hear if different pediatricians have different ideas about flouride.

I would get a reverse osmosis unit in my house and do my own water that way. I would not use bottled water, as the last person suggested, because usually tap water is better filtered than bottled water. You just don't know the source of bottled water, and I've read too much about bottled water being worse than tap water for us. I have a RO unit in my house and have my water tested yearly.

We used nursery water for our first two children and now that we have our third I read that about the fluoride too just before she was born. We decided to go with either the bottled drinking water or spring water because it still has minerals in it that she needs, but does not have the fluoride the nursery water has.