Infant Water
By PLETHOS
@Plethos (13560)
United States
April 26, 2017 6:51pm CST
Babies now need special water to drink? I never knew. Or as i'm thinking, it's a brilliant marketing ploy by some water company to make parents paranoid about the water they give to their child. Big props and kudos for also putting a baby on the label.
As a person living in California, where we have some of the strictest water and environmental laws around, I don't buy into this baby water gimmick. People are told and advised not to drink tap water, unless you have a water filter system attached. Most of my drinking water is bought from a water dispenser that double filters the water, practically all of them do.
All of the water sold in California has to be filtered the same way regardless if it's infant water or "adult" water. I asked my GF who works with babies to pre-school children, what kind of water the kids get at her work place and she said its basically the same water that I buy at the stores. Only they have their water delivered to them by the water company.
The only thing I can see being unique to the infant water is if they added something, but then if they did, wouldn't that deem it a bit unnatural?
I know there's different types of water, but one geared to infants only? It's a business, marketing plow to make money, thats all I see.
Photograph- Taken/Owned by me, Plethos
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
27 Apr 17
Normally I would say this was an unconscionable way to take advantage of new parents. But have you heard about the water in Flint, Michigan? Children were brain damaged from the lead in the water over the years. And Michigan has laws regarding water--it's just that greedy public officials decided to cut corners and line their own pockets and the hell with the kids.
There are other places with some pretty unhealthy water that contains heavy metals and pollutants.
I never bought that baby water when my granddaughter was born 3.5 years ago but I do filter all her water through my Brita. Mostly because the water here in Phoenix tastes so nasty but also from fear of pollutants from crap seeping down into the aquifer and thus our drinking water.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
27 Apr 17
@Plethos Oh, I get it now. Yes, they'll do anything for the almighty dollar. It's up to consumers to use our common sense and know when we're getting ripped off and made fools of!
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
29 Apr 17
LMFAO! Yes, there is no difference in those waters, Plethos!
I MIGHT drink a bottle of water if I can't find a water fountain here, but the water where I live is pulled from the Ozark Aquifer level more than 500 feet below the surface.
People who live in the city might buy bottled water here if they don't bother checking the water quality, but those of us raised here already know we have good water.
As a kid on the farm, we owned a private well. I remember dad having it re-drilled when I was 9 or 10 years old. It seems like dad had it drilled 520 feet below the surface.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
1 May 17
@Plethos Well, honestly, city folk can be rather strange, but so can some of them foreign people, too.... (You know the kind I mean, right? giggling my tush off!)
Being Evil has always worked out well for me! I especially like it when idiots start waving the cross around and muttering what they think are phrases from the Bible! (They are more likely to call a devil from misspeaking the Biblical verses than I would be if I prayed for one to appear! LOL!)
How have you been doing lately? I haven't seen you around. You been gone?
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
1 May 17
@DaddyEvil - im not a fan of bible humpers also.
Ive been here, but got side tracked with spring break and happenings.
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@marguicha (215368)
• Chile
27 Apr 17
Lucky me! I did not know until I read this post that all this existed. A zillion years ago, when I had my babies, I gave them boiled water with anise or cinnemon. They survived.
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@marguicha (215368)
• Chile
27 Apr 17
@Plethos I never gave my children infant food in jars. It was all prepared by me.
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
28 Apr 17
@marguicha - the only baby jar food i like is the gerber apple sauce. theres times when if i see that there is a special on them, i will buy them.
@Tampa_girl7 (48927)
• United States
27 Apr 17
I have seen these jugs of baby water in our stores for a good many years. I wouldn't buy them.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
27 Apr 17
We always get jugs of water from the store and do not use tap water as our water is well water.
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
27 Apr 17
getting water from a store or a water filtering system is still cheaper in the long run. i once thought about a water filtering system for the tap water at home. but california water is so hard, that id have to replace the filter at least every 2 weeks, and the good filters aint cheap.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
27 Apr 17
@Plethos Yeah we looked into filters and it was ridiculous so we decided we will just deal with the well water for most things and buy bottle water for cooking and drinking
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@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
4 Jan 18
some new mothers are absolute suckers for things like this.
"buy me,or you're a bad mother!"
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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27 Apr 17
Most people over here are happy to drink tap water and filtering it isn't something that's really done. I think that infant water would be laughed off the shelves if it became available. Definitely just a money-making ploy. :)
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
4 Jan 18
Sadly that kind of ignorance spread could kill a baby.
Water needs to be boiled to remove certain bacteria because if you read the back of a formula can.... The formula isn't sterile. There is a chance of a bacteria poisoning from formula if you dont follow the directions!
