# A Baby Formula Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baby-formula-question/10580>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 3, 1999, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baby-formula-question/10580 "1999-11-03T00:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baby-formula-question/10580/21 "1999-11-06T06:26:00Z")

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Punditlisa, you are a genuis like me with the prepare ahead of time the water/formula.

Being el cheapo here, I just carried a ziplock sandwich bag with a cup or so of formula in it with an extra spoon dispenser in it and kept it in the empty bottle in my purse. I would then fill the bottle up from a drinking foundation.

As for sterlized water…BAH HA HA HA HA HA. Sorry, I just crack up on that one.I consider boiling water one of the greatest time wasters in Mommyhood, BUT THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. We have a well WITH TRACES OF ARSENIC in it and I don’t sterlize. I’ve never had any health problems and haven’t been healtier since drinking this water. If you live on a city tap, don’t worry about it. Yeah, I can see all of you shaking your collective heads…but Shirley, it’s the health of your children we’re talking about here… yeah, they’ll probably die from a clogged artery induced from the diets that public school system dishes out long before the harmless traces of arsenic will affect them.

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