haha, i know all the moms reading this are thinking "oh boy, she has no clue what's coming to her" and i dont mean to sounds all serious, but lately i have been stressed!
there are too many choices! bottles, bags, cribs, colors, strollers, car seats...the list goes on. what happened to choose A or B and thats it? so my latest obsession has been the chemical BPA. It was gotten a lot of press lately for its potential harm. BPA is present in all polycarbonate plastic products including Tupperware, baby bottles and recently i found out NALGENE Bottles! this may not seem like a big deal, but coming from someone who has been using a nalgene for many years thinking i was doing good by not using disposable plastic bottles for water, it is heartbreaking to find out i may have been causing cancer! So anyway, BPA can leak out from these plastics into food or beverage and have cancer causing agents, can simulate certain hormones leading to early puberty in kids and even cause brain damage. I have struggled with this in the past thinking "is it really that big of a deal?" My parents fed us out of cheap 'ol plastic bottles and we turned out just fine, but who knows what the future will hold. Lately, I have been feeling that if we now have the information shouldn't we be using it?
So i have been on a baby bottle research hunt and found this great website listing all BPA free products by most companies
http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2008/02/z-report-on-bpa-in-infant-care-products.html
Maybe i am getting overboard, but i am going to do a plastic inventory in this house...
please someone talk some sense into me!
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just call me when you want to get crazy about car seat safety - my last years obsession, and my newest interest - vaccinations (: don't worry, i think a lot of moms want to be informed and make choices just with some education - no matter what you end up deciding! whole foods has great "born free" bottles and sippy cups with no BPA (:
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Ahh...that's the fun of it all :)! I too went on a carseat kick, talking to our resident car seat expert nurse when I worked at Genesys (Britax have the highest reviews, and we've been VERY happy) and now I am delving into the world of cloth diapers ;). The BPA thing is throwing me for a loop as I have an Avent breast pump and bottles and would hate to have to replace the bottles for the next baby, but I certainly want to be safe. Let me know what you decide! You look beautiful!
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