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Glass or BPA free plastic bottles?

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elk4baby · 12/02/2009 10:07

Hi,
I'm trying to decide which bottles to buy and am not sure which would be best - glass or BPA free plastic? What do you think is better?

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thisisyesterday · 12/02/2009 10:13

I would say glass (less environmental impact overall)

arabicabean · 12/02/2009 12:00

I love my Born Free glass ones. I used their BPA free plastic ones for water.

elk4baby · 12/02/2009 12:02

hey arabicabean!
Born Free is actually the brand I'm looking at. Which do you prefer - the plastic or the glass? Why did you use the plastic ones only (I'm assuming) for water?

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arabicabean · 12/02/2009 14:11

Hi elk4baby
I actually prefer the glass.
I much prefer the tactile experience of handling a glass bottle. Also glass has been used for centuries for food storage and I find this reassuring.
As for using the plastic bottle - this is how their trainer cups come. I started letting my baby hold his own water bottle from 6 months.
I only use the glass bottles for milk and I feed him (I'm not a fan of babies feeding themselves milk from a bottle, a cup yes, but not a bottle).

arabicabean · 12/02/2009 14:24

Just realised I hadn't answered all of your question. I never used the trainer cup for milk because I fed him all his milk until he was one and then made the transition to an open cup for milk. He was drinking a much lower volume of milk at this point and I could make up for spillages etc by giving him some more cheese.

elk4baby · 12/02/2009 16:33

well, I'm getting just a couple of bottles as a backup to breastfeeding - in case I need to express and bottle feed or, worse, need to use formula (don't want the little one starving waiting for me to buy a bottle). what'd be your vote in this case - glass or plastic?

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Qally · 14/02/2009 03:48

If you want to combine bf and bottle, people on the bf threads heartily recommend Breastflow - and US Amazon sells BPA free versions. They have two teats, so the baby has to both compress and suck, as with a breast. Apparently they help bf babies get the hang - they can be awful with bottles, because the technique is so different.

I had to use Tommee Tippee the first 3 months, because they make a bottle that happens to suit tongue-tied babies like no other. (All their products are awful in every other respect - bottle lids swell with heat so leak, infuriating when the milk is expressed; the heaters don't heat well or switch off at all except at the mains; the insulator just does not insulate and the washing tool has a nice exposed wire at the top perfect for scratching the bottles, and allowing bacteria to breed/BPA to leach. BUT the paed. consultant we saw said all tt babies parents' seem to end up using the special slow-flow teats with the central thingie, because any other either chokes or starves the baby as they can't use their tongue properly, so we weren't alone in being forced to resort to them. They claim they are breastlike purely because there's a huge dome on the teat, but the nipple bit is nothing like a human nipple at all, so it's breastlike to the adult, not the baby - which surely is pointless except in sales terms?

Rant over! Sorry, I just hated the things, and was trapped with them.

I'm now switching to NUK glass ones. Big benefit is that they retain heat well and I think probably have better conductivity - important with bm, which is a living substance so cells can be killed by too much heat. Mothercare online sell them.

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