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My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going "Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!"
Babies, babies can't have tap water.
~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.
~12 months you can move onto tap water.
That also depends on where you live and on the quality of the tap water. Doctor here now recommend you to use tap water also for formula - without boiling it first.
Across Europe there's different recommendations in every country, and no evidence of different illness/mortality rates related to the recommendation.
France says tap water is safe for all ages.
If you're in the US, I totally get why you might want to keep boiling your water, but remember that boiling doesn't remove lead.
The US has a water system effectively comparable to the ones across Europe, FYI. That includes lead levels, since it wasn't just the US that used lead pipes.
In most circumstances lead pipes are safe to replace with different materials as part of routine maintenance. It's only very notable incidents where things go wrong that have driven a push for greater haste, since it highlighted the consequences of things going wrong.
wait, how did babies back in the day (~1000s years ago) survive?
About half of all children died as children. Which of course means half of all humans who have ever lived, died as children.
(The source is really John Green's book, Everything is Tuberculosis, this is just an interview with the author where he quotes that.)
Sporadically
By and large, they didn't
You have 10 or 15 kids and three or four of them will tough it out enough to grow up. There's a reason the population exponentially exploded around the time antibiotics and vaccines were invented.
Breast milk
On breast milk
Make baby drink boiling water so they're cool. Got it.