Jan 15 2009
Eco-Friendly, Safer, Bisphenol A-Free Baby Bottles
Did you know that most of the plastic baby bottles sold for feeding infants and toddlers have a harmful substance called Bisphenol A (BPA)? While there are some other harmful chemicals and substances that can leach into your baby’s food from the plastic in his or her baby bottle, Bisphenol A is of particular concern and should be avoided. BPA has been linked to hormone disruption, cancer and perhaps also diabetes, which means I don’t want it anywhere near any baby of mine.
Plus, the plastic in conventional plastic baby bottles will take thousands and thousands of years to breakdown in landfills – if it even breaks down at all (plastics in landfills is whole different blog post, which I will get to later).
Your best option as a parent (aside from breastfeeding, of course) is to feed your baby using eco-friendly safer bottles like the ones made by Green to Grow or Born Free. Born Free Baby Bottles are BPA-free and Green to Grow Baby Bottles come in 100% recycled packaging and are lead-free, PVC-free and BPA-free.
It’s amazing what chemicals are in all our stuff, that’s why there are so many more illnesses. Thanks for making us so aware. I will also do the lemodnade thing tomorrow.