Think Baby.

So we too have ditched our poisonous plastic Playtex bottles for new safer for baby bottles. Thanks to my friend Tracey, we were made aware of this problem with harmful BPA chemicals in plastics with the most susceptible population being infants. I didn't want to return to glass bottles as we has started out with them and had a few problems which made us switch to plastic. I managed to find BPA free plastic bottles by the name of Think Baby.

I had heard about estrogen compounds in plastics back when I was in University completing my biology degree which was gulp... ten years ago already. I had heard of fish being pulled from heavily polluted rivers where pulp mills had been dumping this BPA, had smaller male reproductive organs and enlarged female ones (Many a comment could be inserted here but I won't). I thought at the time that this wasn't very good and was wondering when something was going to be done about it. So ten years later enough studies have been completed to warrant action. Better late than never, I suppose. Maybe everyone will start listening to Mr. Gore. too. I can't believe there are still skeptics out there... But that is a whole other post.

I guess these "estrogen mimicking" compounds can be found in adult drinking bottles as well such as the very popular Nalgene bottles. But the real problem lies in when the baby bottles are repeatedly heated with formula in it. Thus causing the BPA to leach out of the plastic into the formula. Scary thought, we can never be sure how much of this stuff our little ones have been exposed to but if Canada is proposing a ban then we will in our house too. So I'm resting easy with my new Think Baby bottles and ready to tackle the next threat to my little one.