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Inside Fatherhood

March 8th, 2008

Green to Grow BPA-free bottles

Last month I mentioned that my wife and I are using Medela BPA-free plastic baby bottles after finding out that certain baby bottles leech chemicals into their contents. My wife almost exclusively breast feeds, but we chucked the Dr. Browns bottles we had within minutes of hearing the new.
I mentioned that we went out and […]

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February 10th, 2008

Medela BPA free baby bottles

After the news about BPA leeching from baby bottles, my wife and I set out to find some alternatives. I have been unable to find glass bottles in the few stores I have looked in, but we were able to find BPA-free bottles from Medela. We would have purchased more, but only three were left […]

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February 7th, 2008

Plastic baby bottles found to leach chemicals into contents

Baby’s Toxic Bottle (PDF), a recent report found that numerous types of baby bottles leach bisphenol A (BPA) into their contents when heated. BPA which is used in the production of polycarbonate plastic, was found to leach into bottle contents in levels that were “shown to cause harm in animal studies. Obesity, cancer, […]

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