With all the talk about BPA in water bottles and baby bottles, it’s easy to forget that we also need to focus on other sorts of dishes. For example, plenty of baby food dishes and baby silverware contain BPA, which of course you don’t want your little one munching on. Following are some safe, BPA-free, healthier baby food dishes. Bonus – companies are making super cute dishes nowadays, so you’ve got lots of colorful and fun choices that any little tot will adore.

Skip Hop makes some of the most adorable BPA-free feeding gear in town. Their Palette Plate and Mate …read more

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 bought Medela brand bottles, specifically because that was all that was left on shelves in a local store. However there are other brands of BPA-free plastic bottles out there. A reader named Campbell was kind enough to mention the Green to Grow brand of bottles. …read more

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 in the store, the rest had sold out.
As a refresher, a recent study found that heating bottles and the degradation caused by dishwasher heat and detergent, as well as the acidity of certain juices causes the carcinogenic chemical BPA to leech into bottle 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, early-onset puberty and other conditions have been linked to BPA in animal experiments.”
The worst offender was Dr. Brown’s, who ironically has the tag line “it’s a natural.”
The report recommends taking these steps to reduce exposure to BPA:
* Use glass or polypropylene bottles (the #5 plastic) …read more