Apr 28 2008
BPA Free Bottle Madness
I am glad that I decided to switch to BPA Free bottles when I did. Heck I am glad I have bottles at all.
I don’t know about the rest of the country but in Saskatoon, there are almost no bottles to be found anywhere. All of the major (and minor) retails have pulled all bottles containing BPA from their shelves. Bottles that are BPA free are in such high demand that most stores are sold out and the manufacutrers are back ordered. They just can not keep up with the demand. There are glass bottles available at Li’l Sprouts but other than that new mothers who do not have bottles may be forced to borrow old, unsafe, BPA infested bottles from friends. YIKES.
We bought ThinkBaby BPA Free plastic bottles. I love the bottles, the shape is great and easy to hold but the nipples and lids leave something to be desired. The lids are too tall for the nipples so the milk leaks out even with the lid on, a real pain, and the nipples leak like crazy when the bottle is inverted because they only have one large hole instead of several small ones like the avent nipples. I wrote to the company and they wrote back saying that they are fixing the lid issue and that they are coming out with a cross-cut nipple to prevent leaks and spills. I sure hope they are available soon, I am tired of cleaning milk off the floor. I hope they offer to replace at least the lids free due to the manufacturing error, those bottles were expensive.
3 Responses to “BPA Free Bottle Madness”
Korrina- Not sure if you were aware, but many stores will give you a full refund- no receipts required for any bottles containing BPA. London Drugs is one of these stores that has a no-hassle return policy. I even managed to take back my Avent pump…total refund was over $200 for the whole lot of bottles and pump. We’ve been using sippy cups for wuite a while now but recently moved on to stainless steel sippy cups made by Klean Kanteen. Once the girls are ready, you should check those out- they’re great!
We returned all of our Avent products to Zellers, no hassle no receipts necessary either. It was great now I have a huge store credit to use up. Gee, I’ll have to go shopping, what a shame. Where did you get your Kleen Kanteen Sippy from?
I got ours in Victoria at a store called The Good Planet. There is a Canadian website that I found while doing a google search for Klean Kanteen. You should be able to find it easily. If you can’t, let me know and I could always get you a few and bring them to Stoon with me in June (I’ll be there June 16-18). We thought about buying a sippy by SIGG, but the bottles are aluminum (it dents) while the Klean Kanteens are stainless steel. The SIGG’s also have a liner and refuse to reveal what it is made of “in fear of others copying them”. Hmmm- sounds suspicious to me. Even more suspicious is that they state on their website that the liner has “no detectable BPA”. There’s a big difference between no BPA and no “detectable” BPA. Sounds like a creative use of words to me.