Breastfeeding your baby is the healthiest and most natural way to feed your baby. But some mothers decide to you use a bottle or a breast pump and use a bottle to feed their baby’s later. Because your baby’s health is so important you should know that bottles contain unhealthy substances.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of those substances. Bisphenol A can irritate the eyes, the skin and your lungs. Repeated or prolonged contact may cause skin sensitization. Bisphenol A is an “endocrine disruptor”, in other words it can affect the human endocrine system. Since the 1930s it is known that Bisphenol A is a weak estrogen. Yet many bottles containing the substance. In some countries BPA is forbidden but in Europe it’s allowed to use BPA in products.
Tommee Tippee flesjes ‘closer to nature’
Tommee Tippee manufactured bottles that do not contain BPA. The nipple allows the milk from the bottle comes slowly. The design is based on the nipple of the breast which makes it perfect for babies both breast and bottle fed. Thank to the ventilation hole it is less likely that the baby will suffer from colic.
My own experience
My baby is being breast fed and also drinks from a bottle sometimes. That’s why I was searching for a bottle without BPA. In the supermarket I found the Tommee Tippee bottles and for me they’re perfect!
It’s not easy for the baby to get the milk out and the shape of the nipple comforts the baby while he drinks.
The bottles are perfect if you combine breast and bottle feeding.
Interesting reads about Bisphenol A
Article by Pediatrician Alan Greene
Article ‘Bisphenol A linked to asthma – study’
Medical News Today
Wisconsin bans BPA in baby bottles