Glass/ stainless steel bottle? (environment/ dangers of plastic)

[Wiggy29]

I've been trying to do my bit to help the environment and while looking at something else, stumbled across all the stuff on the internet about dangerous chemicals in plastics that can leech through to humans. I know BPAs are not not allowed by law, but am I better off using a special baby glass/ stainless steel bottle? Keep reading about cancer causing effects on animals frequently exposed to plastics for eating/ drinking and am now thinking I should ditch the plastic bottles/ feeding spoons etc.

Am I just being a victim of internet/ fear of everything syndrome or do you think this is a genuine worry? I know that bottles are now bpa free but that was relatively recent after cancer scares in animal testing, what's to say they won't say the same about other chemicals in plastics?

Realise I may sound paranoid and that plastic is all around us but it's the fact that our little ones put it in their mouth so much that concerns me.

If you've tried the glass/ stainless steel bottles, what was your experience? Also (I may just be being stupid here), but do they not still have the same teats?

Cancer Research suggests you are a victim of the Internet (although I don't know exactly what you've read)

www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/cancercontroversies/Plasticbottles/

During the Victorian times they used to use glass bottles. The material was porous and as a result was a breading ground for bacteria. Which used to then (along with other factors) as a result kill babies.

Well you can get latex teats or silicon ones. The latex would probably be less chemical-ish but most latex is man-made I think.

I think you are probably overthinking, though. BPA free bottles ought to be fine.

And if you do BLW you can avoid spoons altogether I occasionally used a metal teaspoon - the tommee tippee set of knife, fork and spoon with plastic handles but metal ends are quite good as they are very shallow and rounded but enough to scoop yoghurt etc.

Ahhh thanks guys (she says wiping sweat away from brow). That'll save me a lot of time/effort/ money. I'm aware that you can google preety much anything and it'll tell you it 'may' cause cancer so I was a bit dubious but the more I read, the more I started to doubt myself. Thanks again, I can now go back to researching about how to make compost!

Just a piece of advice, but don't look up symptoms on the i when your baby is ill. Or you'll be diagnosing a terminal illness every time they have a cold

Ahhhh good old doctor Google strikes again! I wondered about glass feeding bottles but that was because i watched the Simpsons movie where Maggie breaks her bottle on the stairs to fight the monkey - never heard of Stainless steel though!

I always think you should take everything you read online with a pinch of salt - my uni lecturer used to say unless you can find it on at least 3 separate reputable websites then its probably bullshit

Hi - don't want to put a spanner in the works but I think you should be commended for trying to limit plastics, not just for food use, but in the home generally. Plastics are really not a great material for us to be surrounded with as we are in this day and age, as they are derived from petro-chemicals which do let off numerous nasty chemicals. I wouldn't worry too much about spoons/bottles specifically but it is good to try and cut down on anything oil-derived in the home - all plastics (not easy as I'm finding that pretty much everything for kids is made of plastic), polyester clothing, acrylic based paints, etc.

Gretagrape- yeah I agree, we're trying to do our best to reduce it at the moment due to the landfill side of things (having kids really makes you focus more on the state of the world you're leaving for them). This week we swapped to bamboo toothbrushes and I have to say, they're a huge hit!