Mom-Spotted: Hudson Valley: Spotted: Safe bottles and sippy cups

Safety in our daily plastics. This is a BIG topic for parents! Here is the low down on BPA!! According to The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (www.chej.org); "BPA, a synthetic sex hormone that mimics estrogen, is used to make hard polycarbonate plastic. Ninety-five percent of all baby bottles on the market are made with bisphenol A. The results of the U.S. study show that, when new bottles are heated, those manufactured by Avent, Evenflo, Dr. Brown’s and Disney/First Years leached between 4.7 – 8.3 parts per billion of bisphenol A. Recent research on animals shows that bisphenol A can be harmful by disrupting development at doses below these levels."

This is terrible scary considering most of us have used some of the bottles named above. Some tips to keeping you child and family BPA free are:
1. Do not place plastics in the dishwasher! Hand wash and let air dry!
2. Do not boil the bottles! This one was a biggie for most of us because it is a time honored tradition to boil for sanitation but this is where the chemical bisphenol A leaches from the bottles and sippy cups- through heat!

There is hope! Here are some great BPA-free alternatives:
Thinkbaby.com (for sippy cups and bottles)
newBornfree.com
thesafesippy.com for sippy cups by kidBasix
mysigg.com

Most are available on Amazon.com!

Locally, you can purchase Sigg bottles at Little Ones in New Paltz, NY!