re: Those bottles..

I'm sticking with the bottles I have. I'm so sick of seeing "AHHHHHHH BPA" posts about it.

Quoting jordann:“ i really don't know about the whole BPA scare and if its being blown out of porportion.... but i was just thinking.. is it all plastic like the glad storage containers or bottled water/ drinks?”

Yes its in a lot of those to but people are only freaking out about the baby bottles. If you ask be its just another scare and in a few years I wouldnt be surprised if the people who started it get brought up on charges just like the people who started the rumors aboutvaccines and autism did.

Quoting Cowgirl47429:“ use whatever bottles you want. They only suggest not putting them in the microwave or putting boiling ... [snip!] ... bottle in the trash and bitching at store after store for having a bottle in stock that might have the "7" on the bottom of it.”

oh i know the whole 7 in a triangle thing my bfs grandma was looking at shaylas bottles and noticed it had one on the bottom and she threw it away lol and shes buying us new bottles on thursday but we are useing the playtex ventaires and it was this cheep bottle she threw away im like what the hell i payed money for that lol

Quoting Cowgirl47429:“ Yes its in a lot of those to but people are only freaking out about the baby bottles. If you ask be ... [snip!] ... the people who started it get brought up on charges just like the people who started the rumors aboutvaccines and autism did.”

well then this is just plain dumb! what are people thinking, ' if i don't feed my kid with these bottles, they will never come in contact with BPA?!' what about the kid plates (PLASTIC!), gerber foods (PLASTIC!), storage containers( PLASTIC!).

it seems unrealistic to think you can prevent your child from ingesting BPA if you switch bottles of its in everything else that's plastic in the house.

Quoting Shaylas here:“ oh i know the whole 7 in a triangle thing my bfs grandma was looking at shaylas bottles and noticed it ... [snip!] ... are useing the playtex ventaires and it was this cheep bottle she threw away im like what the hell i payed money for that lol”

I end up losing them or they get lost under a piece of furntiture and are too nasty when I find them to clean so I throw them out regularly these days lol. So I use the cheap Gerber ones now that come in a three pack. Color Tented and Clear View.I didnt even know they were BPA free until I started researching for someone who asked about them. But hey, they're cheap AND they are BPA free so why waste money on expensive bottles even if you are worried about BPA?

Quoting jordann:“ well then this is just plain dumb! what are people thinking, ' if i don't feed my kid with these bottles, ... [snip!] ... you can prevent your child from ingesting BPA if you switch bottles of its in everything else that's plastic in the house.”

BPA even comes from metals and formula in concentrate and ready to feed also has BPA in it. It is really unrealistic to think you can get rid of it. Who knows maybe a year down the road they will find something wrong with whatever it was replaced with like someone else said. Its not as big of a issue as people think it is. The media just blows things out of the water way to much and makes people think its a disaster or something.

If you ask me there are more medical problems year by year so its safer to stick with the old fashion stuff. Somethings needed changed like lead paint but thats about it. Other stuff just seems to become more dangerous everytime something new comes out.

No tink- no more talking about BPA my head will explode! lol

Quoting [Tink] Antagonist:“ Alright, this "BPA free" bottle thing is just about on my last reserved nerve here. I want some honest ... [snip!] ... little overboard? Are we all going to die a few hours early because our parents used some dangerous plastic bottles to feed us?”

I vote overboard.

C.

Plastics 3 and 7 contain BPA. Most of us have it in our systems, and we don't all drink out of baby bottles.

This is largely a "gimmick" to get people buying a new product. Is there a concern over BPA? Maybe, but we're not pulling everything with plastics 3 and 7 off the market, are we? No. Just these bottles.

It's marketing, plain and simple.

C.

Sorry, but I must have missed the memo. Whats the deal with the bottles? I should really watch the news more.

Quoting God:“ Plastics 3 and 7 contain BPA. Most of us have it in our systems, and we don't all drink out of baby bottles. ... [snip!] ... pulling everything with plastics 3 and 7 off the market, are we? No. Just these bottles. It's marketing, plain and simple. C.”

THANK YOU!!!

Those were my thoughts exactly on this whole BPA crap. I honestly do feel that it is a huge marketing scheme. Seriously look at how many parents have run out and bought all new bottles, and even spent MORE money on these bottles that are BPA free.

We have to take into account that even though we've been using plastics all our lives, our particular lives are relatively short in the grand scheme of things (averaging between 18 and 30 years for those of us on here), plus the plastics we used as kids are not the plastics that we are using now.

Between 1991 and 2004, the production of BPA went up from 7,900 tons to over one million tons. This is a relatively new (in widespread usage) plastic and there just really hasn't been enough time to do long term studies on its effects on people - the long term effects are going to show up in us and our kids in 30 years. We are the lab rats.

The thing is about some of these plastics is they are not the conventional toxin that the body rejects outright. What they are is sneaky little hormone emulators - specifically estrogen. I read an article of some breast cancer research where their results were really skewed from their projections, and from prior experiments. Turns out the company that did the test tubes changed their formulation to make the plastic more shatterproof, and put the BPA in the tubes. The cultures reacted as if someone had injected high levels of estraidol into them.

Results of this in our bodies is that it can cause early-onset puberty, higher risks of cancer, and feminization of males. And that's just the stuff we know about.

Does this mean that we should throw away all our plastic - our toothbrushes, our laptops, our water bottles, our remote controls, our pill bottles - and replace everything with Pyrex? Of course not - that's unrealistic. But we do need to be aware of the research that is coming out and read it and understand it, assess our risk and take action accordingly.

It's hard really to understand long-term effects when they are not immediately apparent. My mother never rode in a carseat when she was little, and I slept with blankets and stuffed animals in my crib. Both of those situations were corrected by the popular culture because after awhile it became obvious that those two things were linked immediately to bad things happening. The thing with the plastics is a little different. It isn't a poison. It won't kill you within a year. It's a lot more subtle than that. It comes into our bodies and acts like (but is not) something that is native to and works with our system, and there's no telling what the introduction of artificial substances with those properties are going to do in 20, 30, 40 years.

The research that is coming out now is just the beginning. The results that we personally will show in a few decades will be compounded to it. I don't want to wait that long to see if there is a long-term negative effect when what I've heard so far, is not a good thing. I just don't want to take that chance. I'm not going to let a few people trying to get rich off of the science turn me off to the science itself.

You can't eliminate all toxins, but you can reduce exposure to the ones you know about.

Quoting meridian: You can't eliminate all toxins, but you can reduce exposure to the ones you know about.”

I thought that last sentence needed repeating. It is so true.

Quoting God:“ I vote overboard. C.”

Thank you vuuurry much.

This whole thing is on my nerves. I can't buy the bottles I like because everyone else NEEDS them. They are mortified our kids are going to fall over dead after having a drink I suppose.

If it was that bad, the government would have ditched them completely, not 'suggested' anything.