You've got the cutest little baby face...

[Orthosdoxa]

Another parents thread...

Anyone see the latest hub bub on this?

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/27/news/baby_bottles.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

I'm starting to feel like I just can't win. We use Dr. Brown's.

Then there was another story a while back about how nearly all breast milk contains some level of rocket fuel, from the mothers' drinking contaminated water.

I pump as much milk as I can, and make up the rest with formula. So I guess I'm harming them on all levels, huh?

:mad:

I kind of feel like EVERYTHING, unless you're super crunchy granola, is going to harm your kid.

:sigh:

LK

[kamikat]

Hmm, this is news. I remember when one of mine was a baby, they came out with a study that linked PBA to colored bottles, but they said that clear bottles were fine. Know that you are doing the best you can. Remember, we grew up on old fashioned formula, with our moms smoking and drinking while pregnant, no infant car seats, no safety belts, ect. Even further back then that, my grandmother told me that she feed her babies with condensed (or maybe evaporated, I don't remember) milk with corn syrup added. Our babies have it much better, even with the added chemicals.

[Dust and Ashes]

Ugh, it figures. We use several different kinds. We have 4 Gerbers, 2 Avents (came with the sterilizer) and a few odd bottles we've picked up.

[Dust and Ashes]

I asked my aunt what they used before baby formula and she said just that. Pet milk with corn syrup mixed in.

[OnTheWay]

I honestly think we live in a world where a certain ideological sect within society has gone completely off the wall and are yet empowered by the masses using the guise that they're doing it "for the children." Like schools that want to replace playground equipment with these absurd plastic contraptions that are "safer" because they have rubber rounded edges and no moving parts. Up here there's a push to remove all contact sports from Jr. High, and you can bet the next step is high schools. Yet people wonder why American kids are fat layabouts. When I was in high school my mother was accused of negligant parenting because she allowed me to play hockey and football which seasons run at the same time for a couple of months. It's a bit hard to tell kids to get their fat rear ends off the computer and outside when everything they'd want to do outside has been deemed "unsafe."
Life is unsafe, the question is really do these products pose any significant risk? The answer is no. In the world these people live in it must be a subject of constant amazement that people actually survived in a time before "safty everything."

[Orthosdoxa]

OTW, you're exactly right.

I usually ignored all these stupid warnings, that were meant for adults. But just wait til you have a little one... you might still suspect the constant warnings to be stupid, but you'll love your kid so much that it will still bother you and make you wonder.

LK

[kamikat]

I honestly think we live in a world where a certain ideological sect within society has gone completely off the wall and are yet empowered by the masses using the guise that they're doing it "for the children." Like schools that want to replace playground equipment with these absurd plastic contraptions that are "safer" because they have rubber rounded edges and no moving parts.

They recently did this to my kids' school playground. They even got rid of the swings and the monkey bars, because they are "too high". The whole "blacktop" is now rubberized, which means even if the kids wanted to play basketball, they can't do it well because the balls don't bounce well on the rubber. They have eliminated dodgeball and kickball. They get gym class for only 20 minutes once per week and recess is only 20 minutes. Here's the craziest thing, the schools don't have bike racks because they don't want to encourage children riding to school by themselves because they think that's unsafe. Also, they have eliminated the safety patrols. I went to the same school my kids go to. When I went there, there was 6th graders, as patrols, on every corner, to watch the kids and help them cross the street. The school system has decided that it's unsafe to have the kids on the corners. Therefore, most parents won't let their kids walk to school because there's no one watching them. AND, the school system won't release kids at the end of the day to walk home by themselves. A parent HAS to pick them up, which means that most of the time, most of these kids are being driving to and from school, even if they only live a couple blocks away.

[Anhelyna]

This is what's known as the 'Nanny State'

And then they wonder why there are problems

[ufonium2]

I hear glass bottles are making a comeback, maybe for this reason? I barely trust myself to drink out of glass, though, so there's no way I'm giving glass anything to my eight-month-old.

When my dad was hungry as an infant, and his mother wasn't around, his sisters soaked a piece of cloth in sugar water and let him suck on it. He seems to have survived despite it. So I'm not going to stress over my son drinking formula (gasp!) out of plastic bottles (the horror!).

[Grand_Duchess-Elizaveta]

The plastic scare is not new. I first heard about it this last summer. I hadn't thought about baby bottles (yet), but I read a lot of stuff on the internet (some from credible sources) talking about how unsafe plastic bottles and food packaging containers are. I did panic a little at first, but then after thinking about the fact that plastic is used so much anymore that there's no way I can avoid it, I calmed down a bit. When you go to the grocery store, notice how many juice bottles, water bottles, and foods are in plastic containers. You can't avoid it without losing your mind, really.

The reason I was concerned about it was because some folks have speculated that high use of plastics is partially to blame for record high infertility rates. Apparently plastics tend to leach out xenoestrogens into whatever is packaged in them. Since I was hoping to get pregnant, I freaked a little. I don't know if there's really a link between plastic and infertility or not.

Anyway....forgive my babbling.:sorry: