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Anonymous
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I'm obviously trying to drink a lot of water, but I always wonder which is the safest kind during pregnancy. I may be overthinking this, but there has been a lot of news lately about the levels of hormones and antibiotics in uor tap water, so it makes me nervous. I've been drinking tap filtered with a brita, but I also know that brita filters out some good nutrients (like flouride), and I'm wondering if those nutrients outweigh the risk from the hormones, etc. Or does the brita miss dangerous things - in which case we should go all the way to bottled water, right?
Anyway, I'd be interested in whether others have thought about this and what you decided. I'm sure plenty of you are far more informed on the topic, but it seems nitpicky enough that I'm a little embarrassed to ask my OB. Thanks. |
Anonymous
In my first pregnancy (about 2 years ago), I drank majority bottled water and occasionally Brita filtered water (sometimes in restaurants, I drank what was probably DC tap water). Now in my second pregnancy, I haven't been as strict.....maybe too much time spent running after a toddler leaves me little time to drink water, much less what I'm drinking.  Anyway, now I drink a combo of bottled water and Brita filtered water , mostly the latter (my understanding is that Brita actually does not filter out fluoride). I try to avoid straight tap water.
What what it's worth, that's my 2 cents. |
Anonymous
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bottled water is actually less regulated than straight tap water.
http://www.allaboutwater.org/regulations.html i drink tap and brita filtered b/c of what i've read and b/c i'm concerned about the toll the number of plastic bottles is taking on the environment. unless there was a good reason (which i don't believe there is) to buy so much plastic, i don't bother with it. |
Anonymous
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I drink brita filtered water and the filtered work water (some machine). I also drink lots of fizzy water because it helps the nausea .
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Anonymous
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This is very interesting:
http://www.drinkmorewater.com/ I would get filtered and not spring water if you are drinking bottled, and I try to get the true purified water (through reverse osmosis) when I'm at the store. Giant/Safeway/etc. sell in gallon jugs. I really want to get one of these water coolers though. I don't trust anything. |
Anonymous
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PP again. This is the right page on the site...
http://www.drinkmorewater.com/technology/purity/ |
Anonymous
| We have a reverse osmosis filter at home so I mostly use that. |
Anonymous
| We have a Pur filter and that is mostly what I drink. I do drink tap water in restaurants, which most places is probably unfiltered. The occasional bottle of water. My understanding is that reverse osmosis is the only purification method that removes any drugs from water, and I don't think it removes all of them. I don't know a way around that problem. |
Anonymous
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Call me crazy, but I have always drank tap water exclusively. The only time I ever drink bottled water is when I'm in a third world country or if I'm traveling and want to bring some along with me during the day.
I've tried filtered water but it doesn't taste any different or better to me, and I'm not convinced it does anything to make the water "safer" or "better" than drinking it straight out of the tap. |
Anonymous
This is closer to me. We have a Brita at home, and I'll buy bottles out if I've forgotten the bottle I bring from home. But I drink plenty of tap water, and it's what I order when I'm out. I don't stress about it too much. |
Anonymous
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Brita keeps the fluoride. This is what I drink usually as bottled water creates a lot of garbage. During the pregnancy though I drink bottled water following some articles on phtalate.
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Anonymous
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Yep, Brita doesn't take out the fluoride.
http://www.brita.net/glossary9.html?&no_cache=1&range=&lex=Fluorides I believe Britas (all carbon based-filters, actually) remove most or all hormone/endocrine disruptors, but I can't find a citation on that now. So I drink Brita-filtered tap water. Bottled water isn't well-regulated in terms of purity (so often it's just tap water), it's expensive, and it creates lots of trash. |
Anonymous
| A well known pediatrician in Arlington recommended me to use tap water to prepare the formula bottes os my 6 month old boy. A ped in Fairfax recommended filtered tap water. Who to belive?? |
Anonymous
| I use filtered only because my tap water smells and tastes fishy ever since I got pregnant. Before that, I drank tap water. |