How to feed the baby? Plastic worries parent

[snopes]

New parents across America are taking a second look at a playpen staple of the 1950s: glass baby bottles.

Replaced long ago in most U.S. households by unbreakable plastic, glass bottles are making a comeback prompted by worries about a chemical used in making the plastic.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...1,173636.story

I don't have any kids but last time I looked, my friends used disposable plastic liners in the plastic bottle. Thus making clean-up a snap and not having to worry about bacterial contamination from the bottle, maybe the nipple.

It's been awhile since I blew things up in chem lab but in order for the leaching to happen wouldn't the milk have to be in the water for awhile for the chemical process to occur?

[Pseudo_Croat]

Personally, I'd be more worried about using soy-based formula than anything that might leach from any plastic.

- Pseudo "soy vey" Croat

[Aud 1]

I fed my kid soy formula in an Avent bottle. I guess she's just screwed.

[Artemis]

Is that all she drinks, Aud 1? I'm assuming her diet is supplemented by something other than soy formula.

[rhiandmoi]

Not, Aud, but when she was a infant what else should Baby Aud have been eating?

[Aud 1]

For a while that was all she drank. Now she's 16 month's old and we only occasionally use a bottle. However, she still eats a lot of soy in various forms since she's allergic to milk.

[Trixie Tang]

Neither of my kids were given bottles, but I would have used glass. I'm an old fashioned kinda girl. I also use cloth diapers. (Seriously.)

[Tantalus Prime]

Originally Posted by Trixie Tang

I also use cloth diapers. (Seriously.)

Why would someone think you were joking about using cloth diapers? That's what we use in our family, and at least 50% of the families in my wife's "mom's group" use cloth diapers. And we don't even live in one of them hippie, librl cities.

I'll agree, I'm an old-fashioned guy. If glass bottles were readily available, I would have looked into using that for a preambulatory child (I just can't imagine giving glass to a stumbling, bumbling toddler). But, since our daughter nursed most of the time, and we didn't use a microwave for heating up breastmilk, we didn't worry too much about using our Avent bottles.

This reminds me of Plastic-tac-toe.

We used plastic bottles, cheap disposable diapers, and we would duct tape the kids to the wall when we wanted to go out for the night....

Well, at least 2 of those three are true....

[Mosherette]

Originally Posted by Tantalus Prime

Why would someone think you were joking about using cloth diapers? That's what we use in our family, and at least 50% of the families in my wife's "mom's group" use cloth diapers. And we don't even live in one of them hippie, librl cities.

An almost complete tangent here, but many cities in the UK (England?) are changing to fortnightly bin collections, with regular household waster being collected one week and recycable waste the next. Many people are up in arms about it - or at least they have been on Radio Five phone-ins and my home town's newspapers' letters sections - and the complaint I hear most often is "I don't want a bin full of dirty nappies sitting out there for two weeks!!" These people at least seem to have forgotten all about cloth nappies...

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Is that all she drinks, Aud 1? I'm assuming her diet is supplemented by something other than soy formula.

When DD was born (granted this was 14 years ago), standard pediatrican advice was to feed nothing but breast milk formula for the first six months, then introduce rice cereal, followed by vegetables, fruit, and meat in that order.

Originally Posted by Mosherette

An almost complete tangent here, but many cities in the UK (England?) are changing to fortnightly bin collections, with regular household waster being collected one week and recycable waste the next. Many people are up in arms about it - or at least they have been on Radio Five phone-ins and my home town's newspapers' letters sections - and the complaint I hear most often is "I don't want a bin full of dirty nappies sitting out there for two weeks!!" These people at least seem to have forgotten all about cloth nappies...

Cloth diapers don't work for everybody. Kids generally aren't potty trained until 2 or 3, many kids go to daycare or babysitters before then, and at least in the US, many daycares don't accept kids in cloth diapers.

And even if you use cloth for your own kids, you can't control what your neighbor uses.

[Mosherette]

Originally Posted by Lainie

at least in the US, many daycares don't accept kids in cloth diapers.

Really? That's terrible. Anyone know what the situation's like here? Most people I know with children are cloth nappy devotees, but then they're all of the liberal hippie bent too

And even if you use cloth for your own kids, you can't control what your neighbor uses.

I don't think they'd got that far in theit thought process - the complaints seem to be mostly of the me me me variety (as in "I can't be arsed recycling" ).

[Pixiechic]

Well I used plastic bottles and disposable diapers for both my girls. For MoPixie (the youngest) we used a soy based formula for most of her first year because she had a hard time keeping the milk based formula down. We switched her back at about 11 months and she did fine with it. We also didn't warm it up in the microwave, she'd drink it cold or at room temperature. Both of my girls are quite healthy and happy despite my use of plastic bottles.

Pixiechic

Originally Posted by Pixiechic

Both of my girls are quite healthy and happy despite my use of plastic bottles.

So are my three...but they all did become weird band geeks.....

[Dr. Dave]

Originally Posted by Lainie

When DD was born (granted this was 14 years ago), standard pediatrican advice was to feed nothing but breast milk formula for the first six months, then introduce rice cereal, followed by vegetables, fruit, and meat in that order.

That is still about right. Generally nothing but breast milk or formula for 6 months, though some people start the rice cereal at around 4-5 months. And soy formula (not soy milk, but the soy-protein based infant formula, like Prosobee or Isomil) is just as nutritionally sound as the cow-milk-protein based ones (e.g. Enfamil or Similac) [in all but extremely rare cases, of course].

[Pixiechic]

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

So are my three...but they all did become weird band geeks.....

So that's what I've got to look forward to then? Hmmm, my mom used bottles with me (might have even been plastic, I'll have to ask her) because she couldn't really nurse, and I was a theater geek. Does this mean plastic makes us creative?

Pixiechic

[Don Enrico]

Shopping for the baby outfit in the last week, we picked up both glass and plastic bottles - whatever was on the shelf. We may end up using the glass ones at home and the plastic ones "on the road". If I get the feeling the plastic bottles aren't clean anymore, I'll through them out and get new ones.

Originally Posted by Mosherette

An almost complete tangent here, but many cities in the UK (England?) are changing to fortnightly bin collections, with regular household waster being collected one week and recycable waste the next. Many people are up in arms about it - or at least they have been on Radio Five phone-ins and my home town's newspapers' letters sections - and the complaint I hear most often is "I don't want a bin full of dirty nappies sitting out there for two weeks!!" These people at least seem to have forgotten all about cloth nappies...

The seem to have forgotten about the possibility of putting the nappies in a plastic bag and making a knot in the end, too.

Don Enrico

[Mosherette]

Originally Posted by Don Enrico

The seem to have forgotten about the possibility of putting the nappies in a plastic bag and making a knot in the end, too.

Don Enrico

You know, that's a bloody good point too!

Probably takes too much effort...

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Mosherette

I don't think they'd got that far in theit thought process - the complaints seem to be mostly of the me me me variety (as in "I can't be arsed recycling" ).

Oh yes, them. We have those here, too. Even worse, when I lived in a condo with communal recycling bins, were the ones who couldn't be arsed recyling but were happy to put their trash in the recycling bin with the stuff the rest of us had dutifully separated.

Originally Posted by Don Enrico

The seem to have forgotten about the possibility of putting the nappies in a plastic bag and making a knot in the end, too.

Works as long as there are no loose dogs about.