How do you clean sippy cup lids? No-spill sippy cups, while wonderful for keeping the inside of your diaper bag and your carpeting clean, are diabolical to get all the scummy milk out of. Especially when found under the couch a few days after they were used.
All the nooks and crannies inside a sippy cup’s [...]
Tags: bottles, dishwasher, housework, nuby, sippy cups
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Like many parents, I’ve been concerned about recent news stories that tell about chemicals like melamine in baby formula and chemicals like BPA, which leech from plastic in baby bottles.
I was extremely frustrated when I learned that some breast pumps actually have parts which contain BPA too. For example, the cups, bottles and storage containers that come with the Nursing Necessity [...]
Tags: bottles, BPA free, breast pumps, chemical free, Free, nursing, Playtex
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that it plans to study the effects of BPA in depth in the future. Currently, the FDA says that BPA’s are safe. According to experts, the FDA bases this on the results of two studies done by other groups. These studies, which were funded by chemical industries, claim [...]
Tags: Baby, Behavior, bottles, BPA, brain, chemicals, child, FDA, infant, plastic, sippy cups, toddler
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Just when you thought (maybe) BPA was safe, we find out that the FDA did not include important evidence in its report.
It turns out that the report’s thumbs-up for BPA was based on studies paid for by the plastics industry! It also conveniently ignored information from some independent studies.
The short story is that the FDA [...]
Tags: bottles, BPA, FDA, plastic
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I’m sitting here at 9 o’clock at night, two days before my due date, trying to unpack some more of my baby shower gifts. I received some baby bottles that I was very if-fy about. Although they’re cute, they’re made from #7 plastic, the kind that may (or may not) contain BPA. They’re going back [...]
Tags: bottles, bowls, BPA plastics, formula, Safety, worries
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