…Remember Roseanne? HA means, remember her when she was really funny? She had a line yrs ago about her husband coming home after work and asking how the kids were. She drawled, “I figure it they are alive, I have done my job.”
…Well, danger lurks everywhere, as parents know. Newsweek (Nov 19, 2007) takes on the popular baby bottle.
…Seems that some of these—which are next to or IN the baby’s mouth, contain bisphenol A or BPA, which has been shown to cause a bunch of health problems.
Oh, the usual, behavioral problems, obesity, decreased fertility and cancer.
…Neato torpedo.
…If you bottle-feed, don’t heat the bottles with liquid in them or put warm liquid in. Huh? What’s the kid supposed to drink, a Manhattan?
…Get rid of scratched or cloudy bottles.
…Buy bottles made of glass or polypropylene or polyethylene.
…Or look for the label: BPA-free. This applies to sippy cups, too!
…Check out www.buybuybaby.com. For more info, go to www.ewg.org.
…For Pete’s sake, kids are sucking on these things. Could they at least be crud-free?
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