Mom's Opinions on Bottles/sippie Cups

Greenfeet.com has stainless steel waterbottles that have an Avent sippy top. I have a few with several sippy tops to interchange and it works great!

Thank you for asking this question. I am trying to find out the same info because while I only have one still using sippy cups, I was about to donate a ton of baby bottles to a crisis pregnancy center. I have held off since the news came out.
I am enough of a conservationist/recycler to hate the idea of throwing away perfectly good, usable items, but if they are dangerous to babies then they have to go. We also have several Nalgene water bottles that we use on a regular basis, though only for cold beverages, which I believe the issue is only when they are heated...

Check out http://zrecs.blogspot.com/ They have a lot of information on various products, including a free text messaging service that helps you identify which products to buy when you're out and about.

I have heard that WalMart is selling all BPA free stuff. At Target they also had labels around their bottles that said if they were BPA free or not. I heard on the news that you need to look at the bottoms of your cups, bottles and other plastic containers for a 6 or 7 as the recycle code. If it has one of those then you should throw it away. I send my daughters lunch to school in plastic containers and I had to throw some away because they had a 7 on the bottom.

I believe it is the clear bottle and sippy cups with the recycle number 7 on the bottom (the number inside of the triangle so when recycling they know how to sort them). You can check online, if it is not 7 it is 5, but I'm 99.99% sure it is 7. I know I have a couple of Gerber sippy cups that I cannot use now because they are some with the number on them.

There's a brand called Born Free that shows on the label that is does not contain BPA. They have bottles and sippy cups. I have seen them at Babies R Us.

Hi- I googled non-bpa baby bottles and a whole list comes up. It seems that the most widely available bpa free bottles and sippy cups are by Born Free. Medela and Adiri also make bpa free bottles, but I'm not sure about sipy cups. Good luck!

It's enough to drive you nuts, isn't it?! I saw a report on the Today show last week, and then they had two "experts" on to present the opposing sides. The lady from the bottle industry said they're perfectly safe, and the FDA will do more investigation, and the scientist guy said these bottles are horrible and acted like there's a conspiracy to destroy children or something. I suspect the truth is somewhere in between. My theory is, my kids have been mostly breastfed, so a bottle or two a week might not be bad, but I might look into replacing bottles if the kids had them all the time. Sippies are probably worth investigating too. Unfortunately, no matter how much research we do, both sides of the argument have published their stuff. So confusing. Also, I heard BPA was in the liners of some formula containers too, but they didn't say which kinds. Sorry that's not super helpful, but good luck with your decision, and congratulations on your new addition!

Born Free bottles are BPA-free

Check out EWG's site for more info on BPA, including product lists. http://www.enviroblog.org/2008/04/cheatsheet-bisphenol-a-...

I have recently been looking into this as well. I googled it and found several websites with bpa-free bottles and sippy cups on them (some that you can buy inexpensively in the store and others that can only be ordered online). Here is one: http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2007/05/sippy-cup-showdown-safe.... Unfortunately, we can't trust that they are safe just because they are being sold. It's sort of like the partially hydrogenized oil topic in that there is a lot of politics involved in getting companies to switch to better ingredients because of the expense, even when it is known that they cause health problems. We live in a money-driven world! Thankfully, we can research things like this on our own! Good luck with this, and God bless!

I have recently switched away from plastic sippies. I now use stainless steel cups. Klean Kanteen makes some and so does SIGG. They are expensive, but I think worth it in the long run. If you google Klean Kanteen or SIGG you can find where you can order them. The SIGG kids cups are super cute and you can either order them from the SIGG site or from Amazon.

Hi there!

I hope this is acute as I did some searching recently on this myself! Playtex drop ins and liners are free of BPA and I'm pretty sure that all Nuby items are as well. I've also heard that Avent sippies are but not the bottles. We used the Avent bottles and sippy spouts and had planned on using them for the next baby but I recently sold them to a second hand shop in Hilliard. I didn't do it because of the BPA however, I just decided I've got to much going on to be constantly washing and sterelizing bottles! We are going to use the playtex drop ins with breastmilk next time for the safe plastic and the ease of use and clean up. If you google BPA baby bottles you should be able to find several articles that list the safest baby products out. I hope this helps you and congrats on your soon to be newest addition!

Nalgene is a brand that you can buy that is now making them without the BPA chemical. You can find those products in Target and im sure Walmart. Some bottles will continue to use the BPA chemical they say its how it is used depends on its effects. Good luck and Congrats....

look for the number 3,6, and 7 on the bottom. If it has any of those numbers, throw it out immediately. Playtex drop ins are safe and so are their sippys. I think some Nuby's are safe and some aren't. In response to this problem, many manufacturers are putting BPA Free on their labels. Just look for the number in the triangle. You may also want to check your plastic containers in the house. We have an excellent set of Rubbermaid containers that I have to get rid of becuase they have the 7 on the bottom.

We didn't have any luck with the numbers. All plastics had a different son. Here is what I gathered from research. BPA was added to plastics around 1950 to make them shatter proof. So, bottles that give when you squeeze them do not contain BPA. The hard bottles do (like Avent and Dr. Browns). Basically, the chemical is not harmful if you don't heat or scrub the bottles too hard. I decided not to take the chance and use Born Free bottles and sippe cups from Babies R Us. They have some extra parts for colic and all the sippe and baby bottles are interchangeable.

I am in the same boat as you. I am planning on using my old bottles. I have some drop ins, some Avent, and some Playtex. They way I am looking at it is if it was a very serious matter they would have issued a recall and not just taken them off the market. I also don't let the milk sit in the bottle for a long period of time, I would thaw the milk then put it in the bottle and feed it to him right away.

here's a list of some, and other safe products: http://www.watoxics.org/

Check out this link:

http://safemama.com/2007/11/22/bpa-free-bottle-and-sippy-...

Good luck!

Personally, we use born-free bottles and sippys (but they've always leaked)...and we also use foogo (both sippy and straw cups) by thermos (they don't leak and they keep milk nice and cool). We've used both for about a year now and I love the foogos! (and I've even emailed thermos a few times w/ questions regarding BPA and insulation issues and they've always repsonded w/in 24 hours! amazing!)

My favorite website (other than mamasource, of course!) is www.zrecs.blogspot.com they've been testing products containing BP-A for over a year now...they have a new service, that you can text and get the info while you're in the store...
here's the number...
Text "zrecs" plus a company name and/or a product category to 69866. You'll get a text back providing the BPA status of products by that company and/or in that category. Current categories are bottles, sippys, pacifiers, and tableware.

Nuby makes BPA free bottles and sippy cups. You can get BPA free Playtex plastic bottles on the BabiesRus website. I just bought a bunch of Nuby stuff at www.diapers.etc - they have a whole section dedicated to BPA free bottles and sippy cups.

I also use Avent and Dr. Brown bottles but wasn't sure if they contained BPA or not since they do not have a number on the bottom. I did notice that the Gerber baby food (organic and regular) that I have in the plastic containers have a number 7 on the bottom! And so do the Del Monte fruit cups that my daughter eats. I'm not taking any chances with the food stored in these containers so I immediately threw it all out.

Like the other moms that responded, I have done some research on this as I have one that still uses the occasional bottle and sippies are all over our house. My understanding is that you want to look for the recycle symbol of 1 and/or 5 - those seem to be the most common. I believe that 3 is o.k. too, but I know for sure 1 & 5. Usually, things made with the BPA have the symbol 7 on the bottom. I had used Dr. Brown bottles because of colic with my first daughter - once I found out about the BPA, I threw them out and went to Gerber Clearview. I got them at Target and they are REALLY inexpensive and do not have as many parts as the Dr. Browns. I also got rid of all of our Playtex sippies too. So many parts to wash and they leaked too - so, I have gone to the 1st Years sippies that are some what "disposable." You can buy them in packs of 6 in different colors or they come 3 in pack with characters on them. Again, these are made with the plastic that is a 5 recycled product. They are not perfect - they some times do leak, especially if the top goes on too easily and my girls play with them or throw them down to hard, but I am pretty happy with how well they have held up and I can throw them in our recycle bin when we need to replace them.

Hope this helps.
K.

so i'm kind of out of the loop here... i've heard a little about this but exactly what is the problem with BPA?

I'm with you on this...so much mixed information and it sounds like scary stuff. I'm looking forward to reading the responses.