There seems to be an ongoing debate since a report in April of 1999 on ABC-TV’s 20/20 disclosed an unnerving possibility- do the petrochemicals that make up plastic pose health risks to infants and children? The chemical bisphenol A or BPA is used in the plastic to make bottles, and many other common products.
Once I heard this, my mother alarms went off into a shrieking fit. My 8 month old daughter just started the transformation to bottles from breast. So I went straight to the source a lot of us run to: The Internet.
In my search I found that the BPA site states that over four decades of extensive safety research on BPA shows that consumer products made with BPA are safe for their intended uses and pose no risks to human health.
In other sites such as WebMD there is an article on the studies found with mice with the BPA chemical. In this article they say:
“The horrifying thing is that it looks as though these effects in the Hunt study and other studies happen at lower doses than what is actually found in human fetal blood — umbilical cord blood,” vom Saal says. “That is pretty stunning. That is an alarm. It needs to be the basis for a very serious re-evaluation of the potential for human harm of BPA.”
If you go to Google, you’ll find tons of articles on this information, which can make anyone who wants to do the best for their child, head spin. So I took my search in a new direction, the alternatives of plastic baby bottles in the way of being cautious. To my delight I found decently priced glass baby bottles, water bottles, food storage containers and childrens products at Life Without Plastic.
In the end it’s every parents decision, I myself have 4 kids and they’ve all used bottles, sippy cups, plastic toys, teether’s etc. at one time, and are all fine. But on the same line, I am one to go organic and natural as often as I can.. and for those reasons I did my research, which I always recommend any worrying parent to do. This mama will be buying glass bottles.. Now I have to worry about them breaking.. will our mothering worries ever end… Hah, never! 
