Am I the only ‘bad’ mom out there not using BPA free bottles and pacifiers?

My daughter has recently been weaned from both, but no, I never switched to BPA free. I didnt buy into all the hype, and if I protected my daughter from every single little thing that would *supposedly* harm her, she’d be living in a bubble.

I don’t pay attention to whether my bottles are BPA free or not. I don’t heat my bottles so I am not to concerned.

We still use our Playtex VentAire bottles. My son gets one or two bottles a day while I’m at work… and we’ve never put the bottles in the dishwasher or microwave. They’ve never been exposed to high temps, so they’re fine.

BPA is in EVERYTHING… from formula cans, to soda bottles, to other plastic containers.

Immitation sugars (Sweet n Low, Equal) are just as bad, but people still eat those

I initially intended to use BPA free bottles.Playtex drop in ones to be precise….LOL Well my daughter is BF and only needs the bottle when I am gone and we lawyas have it for when we are in the car. Well she won’t take bottles so we were trying all types of bottles! Well they make these breast flow bottles and Adiri bottles…The adiri cost 12 bucks a bottle and are like the breast and BPA free but the other one have BPA and are also like the breast and $5 a bottle well she takes the cheaper one and I struggled so bad to get her on any bottle I was happy she finally took one! I think about that tho. Then what about my older kids they uses BPA bottles??? I am not sure if it is necessary cause when I try to read on it I got very vague info then why aren’t all bottles posted with this info when we buy them! You have to call the manufacturer to get any info!! Guess I ranted enough!

Well, BPA hasn’t suddenly become harmful in the last year – provided you follow the guidelines (no boiling water in the bottle) it’s actually completely safe. All kids who had bottles over about the past decade had bottles with BPA in, and there’s absolutely zero evidence that any of them were harmed at all.

So I would keep using your existing bottles, being careful about the boiling water – but buy BPA-free ones if you need new ones.

You are not a bad mother.

But you should be educated on the issue.Toxins leach from the bottle into the liquid whether it’s heated OR not.

That is why BPA free bottles/sippy cups are best.The toxins can cause harm to your child’s reproductive system.

People may not believe it or may not want to, but then need to realize it.They have pretty cheap bottles out there(not like the born free..2 for 20 bucks yikes!)

Even bottles such as bottled water can contain BPA.

It’s something to consider.Just be sure not to heat your baby’s bottles if you continue with none bpa free ones.

ps, whoever gave me a thumbs down. GET OVER YOURSELF.Your opinion is not greater than mine just like mine is not greater than yours.

I only heard about it recently but I haven’t switched

I haven’t bothered. I just use the playtex liners. Those happen to be the ones that my daughter likes. And she doesn’t get a bottle very often since she is bf.

I don’t like the glass bottles. They are heavy and breakable. I am pretty clutzy.

Plus, give me thumbs down if you want but if BPA truely messed with the reproductive systems, then why is our world over populated?

I am not worried about it.

I still use my Avent bottles which do contain BPA. I love the bottles and so does my son.

BPA is mostly a problem if you heat the bottles (more specifically, if you microwave them or put boiling hot water in them), that is when there is the greatest risk of toxins being released is.

A few other answers mentioned that BPA is in just about everything plastic….which is true…. so even if the bottles don’t have it, at some point in your child’s life they are going to be exposed to it.

The potential harms are to the reproductive system, however, if you consider that most people over the past 20 years at least have been considerably exposed to BPA in bottles, plastic bottles, etc…… if it’s truly a huge reproductive risk….why is it that the teen pregnancy rate keeps going up?

It’s just my opnion, but really…… there’s no way to prevent exposure to anything and everything bad in life. Cancer occurs if you’re genetically prone to it….hence why some people can smoke their whole life and be fine, and others could smoke for 5 years and develop lung cancer. When some one develops a genetic test of some sort to predict cancer or other similar problems…. then I’ll start paying attention to the 8 million warnings about anything and everything. I just don’t buy into all the hype about everything being BAD these days….. sorry!

I didn’t buy into the hype. There’s something wrong with everything. In time they’ll be saying something’s wrong with the BPA free ones too.

I don’t use BPA free bottles or pacifiers. Didn’t know they had BPA free pacifiers anyway. I’ve thought about it but I have heard that the research shows that there’s not enough BPA in the bottles to cause any real harm. I do not have the money to go out and buy new bottles. I have Avent bottles (unfortunately. They suck. They leak) and will continue using them unless I throw them out the window because they suck. But we cannot afford new bottles so we deal with what we have.

just so you know, walmart sells a three pack of bpa free plastic bottles for 2.88. It has a standard size neck so you can use any nipple made for a standard sized bottle. Money is hardly an excuse when you are talking about 3 dollars for 3 bottles. I agree that we cant worry about everything. But why is it that other countries are banning BPA products? And why is it that the FDA is saying that plastics are safe but they are not even bothering to hide thier ties to the plastics industry?

But the point is I guess no one should tell you what to do. But why not read up on it yourself and make your own decision? If you make an informed decision not to change then thats different.

http://thesoftlanding.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/healthy-childs-take-on-polycarbonate-enough-is-enough/