Attention all of my friends of childbearing age...I'm here to tell you a little story about those "Born Free" bottles. My girlfriend from San Francisco sent me an e-mail a few months ago about our Avent bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) in its plastic (#7 on the bottom). BPA in a high enough dose can mimic hormones and can cause all sorts of problems: low sperm count, prostate and breast cancer, ADHD, yadda, yadda, yadda. I refused to give into the hype and told Jay, "I'm not getting worked up about this. If BPA were really that harmful, there would be word about it on the news and they'd be pulling the bottles from the market." Sure enough, THAT NIGHT on the World News, they had a report on BPA in baby bottles, and how there is legislation to try make it illegal for bottles to be made with it.
Crap.
So I sent Jay off to get these stupid "Born Free" BPA-free bottles from Whole Foods. Just wanted you to know that I like that they're supposedly more safe for Antonia, but they suuuuuck! AND, they were like, twenty-four bucks (with tax) for two bottles. They have some dumb thing that screws in under the nipple that's a total pain in the ass to unscrew and clean (supposed to help with gas...okey dokey), the nipple is almost impossible to unscrew, in part probably because you have to screw it on so tight in the first place so IT DOESN'T CAUSE YOUR KITCHEN TO HAVE A FOUR INCH FLOOD OF MILK BECAUSE THE DAMN BOTTLE LEAKS SO MUCH WHEN YOU SHAKE IT!!!! Yep, they totally suck. And, not to mention, they look like five-year-old bottles that someone had previously peed in. Nice. Avent my old friend, I miss you.
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So, what are you using now you lunatic?
I don't even want to tell you. Jay said Antonia doesn't really like the new nipples. So we are storing the milk in the Born-Free bottles (I always have one or two in the fridge), and she's eating from the Avent bottles when she does do bottles. Let me tell you how nasty my fridge gets from those stupid things.
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