A little rant on scary plastics and a favorite baby bottle
by HeatherFirst, let me acknowledge that buying the Good and Non-Toxic baby bottles are super expensive. But that the alternative is really scary.
Back in September, I read Mom 101’s post on how Plastic #7 is the new 666 and I decided to take very small and limited action. After using the evil polycarb bottles unknowingly on my first son, I couldn’t continue the trend in good consciousness. Even my
cheap frugal husband agreed, we needed to get some safer baby bottles.
So we got the BornFree Trainer (sippy) cup model and bought the extra pack of bottle nipples so that we could get more bang for the buck: a large bottle shaped bottle that Milo could one day hold himself without any additional cash outlay! The handles come off and the mouthpieces are interchangeable. We felt pretty brilliant.
When he was around 7 months old, Milo started drinking bottles more regularly (first the breastmilk, then the breastmilk formula cocktail); around 10 months old we auditioned him on the sippy lid then backed off; and now at almost 12 months, he’s exclusively on the sippy nipple. Bravo us. The experiment worked.
Safe, smart, scary-plastic free. What a good mommy I must be. Too bad that when our two BornFrees
What you can do:
- Buy safer bottles like the Born Free Trainer Cup
- Sign a petition to show you care about safer baby products: League of Maternal Justice
- Learn more about bpa-free bottles and cups on the SafeMama Cheat Sheet.
Stumble it!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I use the old school Evenflo glass bottles (but I switch out the standard nipple that comes with it for the Comfi nipple). 3 bottles are $4.99 for 4 oz, and just a bit more for the 8 oz bottles. They have hit the floor several times, and have no nicks, chips or anything, and silicone “cozies” are available to keep them from making direct contact. Even better as far as I am concerned, is that the heat from the dishwasher heats the glass enough so much that they dry completely whereas our plastic ones don’t. HTH.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That’s so fantastically awesome to hear. Yes, it’s a little more - we’ve got 4 Adiri Natural Nurser bottles we’re rotating for the last six months - but really we’re talking tens of dollars, not hundreds of dollars. It’s like, why splurge on organic milk if you’re feeding it out of some toxic bottle?
If everyone took one tiny step like you did, we could really make significant change in the market. No demand for sub-par bottles…no supply. Yay Rookie Moms!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Be careful when you buy for older children too. I purchased a Nalgene water bottle to take along on a car ride with my grandson. It had been promoted as a “green” product to be used instead of dispoable water bottles. “Refill with filtered water” they said. I found out later that the model I bought has bpa and is being phased out by Nalgene (information from their own website). So why promote on sale, rather than recall? I will never buy Nalgene even though they are making a big fuss about their new safe bottles, because of this deliberate endangering of our children in the name of profits, dumping unsafe inventory on the public.