GUIDELINES: Safe Bottle and Formula Guide

So apparently I'm the only mom in the world (probably not which is why I'm posting this) who didn't know BPA isn't just leaking from plastics, but also http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giffromhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgif cans into food. All these years I've been thinking that making pasta sauce was so super beneficial to my health, even if I make it 99 percent of the time with canned tomatoes (sorry but most tomatohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifes in America taste like water really) and now I have rethink the whole process.

So this study from the Environmental Working Group back in 2007 is the main one talking about how BPA (Read on BPA here) was leaking into ready-made liquid formula containers into the food. I only use powdered formula but I know that I have been tempted sometimes to buy a couple of these ready-made cans when out and about. Now I'll probably never even consider it!

Here are some safe baby feeding guidelines from the same group. The group is a non-profit company that deals pretty exclusively with nutritional, agricultural and food industry issues. They also have a sister lobbying organization that helps push their cause.

NEWS: BPA Linked to Baby Breathing Issues

So all that water I was drinking while I was preggo could lead to my little one wheezing, how sad. :( I hope not! I was good and bought a metal water bottle, but I quickly found it wasn't dishwasher safe (the exterior) and wound up reverting back to my plastic water bottles at least three out of the five work days. Hopefully nothing will happen to the little one because of it, but researchers from Penn State University Hershey Medical School, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Simon Fraser University found that exposure to BPA while in the womb could lead to childhood wheezing. Yikes!

[What is BPA? Click here]

The study reads that 398 children and their mothers were studied and 99 percent of the moms had detectable BPA levels during their pregnancy. The higher the level of BPA the more wheezing. Although this is far from a large study, the presence of wheezing definitely begs the question, what is happening to the development of the lungs in these babies? That much is unclear and what's also strange is the wheezing did appear to diminish with age (after 6 months).

My daughter doesn't wheeze, thankfully, and besides water bottles there are a number of ways to get BPA in one's system, so hopefully if I had any it wasn't enough to amount to much. Hopefully for you all too!