Choose and Use Baby Bottles with Care

CHOOSE

A glass bottle over a plastic one. Plastic bottles can leach toxic chemicals, including Bisphenol-A, into the bottle's contents. Plastic bottles get scratched more easily, making them harder to clean and allowing bacteria to build up inside;

A silicone nipple over a latex or PVC nipple. Latex can cause allergies.  PVC can leach toxic phthalates.

USE

Powdered formula over liquid, which may be contaminated with Bisphenol-A;

Filtered tap or tank water over unfiltered water. It is important to use fluoride-free water when making up your baby's formula, otherwise you will give them approximately 250 times more fluoride than nature ever intended. Breast milk is particularly low in fluoride as a means of protecting vulnerable infants from overdosing on this toxic chemical.  Only a Reverse Osmosis water filter system will remove most of the fluoridation chemicals added to water;

Saucepan full of hot water rather than a microwave to heat baby's formula as microwaves provide uneven heating and you may inadvertently scald your baby during feeding.

NEVER

Feed your baby soy formula - phytoestrogens in soy are potent endocrine disruptors linked to delayed physical maturation in boys and extremely precocious puberty in girls. Toxic and carcinogenic byproducts are formed and added to soy during the processing of soy to produce formula;

Put juice in your baby's bottle - highly concentrated fructose will rot your baby's teeth as fast as coke;

Put your baby to bed with a bottle - they may choke, get reflux, risk ear infections and tooth decay.