BPA Free Bottle Recommendations

We liked Medela bottles (no BPA) when she was really little, but they only go up to 5 oz. Now we use the Evenflo classic BPA free- they are cheap, simple, and come in cute colors (8 oz)! I saw the Born Free bottles and they are very expensive! The Evenflos are $2.99 for a 3-pack!

I used Dr Browns with my first and with my second (10 wks old), I'm using Born Free, and I really like them.

I use the born free bottles and have no complaints. We were using Dr Browns and then had to switch over and transition was fine. Would recommend!
Good Luck!
B.

Hi T.,

I would recommend either the Born Free bottles or the Playtex nursers. The Born Free are BPA free. I use the playtex nursers and have really liked them. The plastic liner is BPA free and can be recycled, reducing the environmental impact of having to change the liner with each feeding. Hope that helps!

I have to agree with Deanne. Skip plastic all together! I wish we had. My daughter is like a little canary and reacts to everything!! She is suffering the ill effects of BPA and probably the other 73 commonly used hormone receptor chemicals that are used in plastics too! I must mention that I nursed for almost two years too. So, she rarely used a bottle. Only at nights when I was at work. She started puberty just before her 1st birthday!!

Skip the worry about plastic and use glass. I used them with my daughter and NEVER broke one. They are made from tempered glass and is not easy to break. You can by them at Baby's R Us. The next report we read will be about the "new plastics" and how they are bad for us as well.

Hi! I know that they make BPA free bottles for Dr. Brown's. My friend bought those. Yet, they are not easy to find (and they did not exist when I had my son at first). I have been using Born Free bottles with my son which are made without BPA. He does well with them. The system that the Born Free Bottles has seems to work really well too. I see a lot of people using these bottles. You can buy them online, at babies r us, whole foods, etc. We bought these bottles for the same reasons you are considering. Good luck with your search!

I used the the Born Free bottles with my baby. There are other options available to you as they are not the only bottles BPA free. Avent does make a BPA free bottle. They are the TEMPO dropins. I've heard great things about them. Here is a blog that also has tons of info.

http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2008/02/z-report-on-bpa-in-infa...

Good luck in your search. I'm sure you'll find what is best for you.

I read Avent now has BPA free bottles.

HTH
S.

I switched & love the Evenflo glass bottles. I wish I would have used them with my first child. They are also very cheap, 3 for $5! I do not like the travel disks that come with the bottles as they leak when you shake the formula but the you can buy separate Evenflo travel disks that are different & they works great, not leaks.

Hi T.

I am a very big fan of the Dr.Browns Glass Bottles, I 1st tried the Born free BPA free but found them to be difficult to assemble you have to tighten it just right it does not just tighten all the way to give the correct flow, you either leave it to lose and get milk everywhere or too tight and the milk does not come out right, my baby was also very fussy with them, once I switched to Dr Browns glass bottles he feeds like a dream, they are easy to assemble, you can warm them even though they are glass with cold formula/breast milk stright from the fridge, in the early learning bottle warmer, hope this helps....I know Dr Browns also have BPA free plastic bottles for when they feed themselves
H.

Avent has a new BPA free bottle, if you wanted to stay with Avent. There was a recent article in Parents Magazine on all the BPA free bottles.

Really, it depends on what you are looking for and how much you want to spend. I recently turned in all my Avent bottles. I really liked them and used them with each of my 3 children--because I used them with my first 3 I had to find out more about the concern. My understanding is that the concern stems from when the old bottles are heated to a specific temperature and the chemicals that are released at that temperature. This laid to rest many of my worries---I guess you were not asking about that, nevertheless...when I turned in my Avents, I maximized my credit and replaced with Evenflow BPA free since, when I returned the bottles, my twins were past the concern of how they would respond to the nipple and how the bottle and it's flow would affect their air intake and gasiness. I was tempted to go Bornfree or Brown. Bornfree was just too much for me and I am not sure why I did not go with Brown (according to Babies R Us employee, Brown is the new Avent). Thought about glass, yet my children were at the point where they would be holding bottles on their own and I was not sure how they would do with the glass bottles...

FINALLY---Avent is suppose to come out with BPA free bottles this year...so you really do not HAVE to change

Good Luck. Sorry to babble on....

I was already using Dr. Brown's wide mouth bottles when I switched to BPA free bottles. Because my twins were 4 months old and used to the Dr. Brown's nipples and needed the venting system, I ended up switching to the born free wide mouth ecause they are the only ones that fit. I was able to use the Dr. Brown's venting system and nipples with the born free bottles. I also tried MAM, Nuby, and Gerber Clearview but the MAM and Nuby bottles leaked, and the Gerber ones caused tons of gas for my babies (but so did the advent ones).

According to whay I've read, Gerber Clearview bottles are most like advent and also have interchangeable parts. (You can use the nipples from your advent bottles in the clearview ones.) Plus, they can be found at regular drugstores for about $2.00 each.

If you decide to use born free, they are ridiculously expensive, but I found them the cheapest at vitapal.com. They were around $7.50 a bottle, with no tax and free shipping.

Here is a link to more information about BPA free bottles.
http://safemama.com/tag/baby-bottles/

Good Luck!
A. P

Go glass. Dr. Brown glass bottles are the best. So you pay a little more, but it is worth it.

I use the BPA free Evenflo bottles. Cheap, cheap, cheap. Cute colors. Evenflo also has glass, as others have said, but I have not tried those. I didn't start using them until about 7 mo., so don't know how they do for newborns. Congrats and good luck!!

I use the Evenflo tinted plastic bottles and love them. I did a lot of research about BPA-free bottles and ultimately decided to try these first as 1) they are BPA-free, 2) they are light-weight and safe (versus glass), and 3) if my daughter didn't like them for some reason I could change without having spent an arm and a leg. They are very reasonably priced and I have had no problems with gas, leaking bottles, etc. Some babies are very finicky about their bottles so rather than investing in a whole bunch of them right away I'd just buy a couple and see how they work.

I use glass bottles.

I've been using Born Free (plastic) bottles, and have no complaints about them; other than the fact they are so expensive!

I just turned in my Avent bottles. If you're going to be pumping, all of the Medela bottles are BPA-free and are compatible with any Medela pump. The 3-pack storage and feeding system is comparable to Avent in pricing.

We used Avent for the first two months, until the controversy started. We then switched to Born Free bottles and we love them! Although pretty expensive, my daughter had no problem making the switch. They also have an insert to help reduce air and prevent gas, which is great for our gassy baby! Good luck!
-H., mother of 6 mo old Makenna

If you are not looking to spend very much money, I used the New Parent's Choice BPA Free bottles. They are around $2.00 for there bottles. I also love the Nuby bottles from Babies R Us. They are also BPA free. They are a little more expensive $7.50 for three. They also have evenflow bottles that are BPA free. However, I am very picky with nipples, I buy the similac ready to feed nipple and rings (not the formula - just the nipple and ring)and use those nipples.

I used glass bottles with my son. Honestly, they were the best bottles I have ever used. One, they were very inexpensive, I believe the Evenflo version was $6 for three bottles. Two, they never leaked. I always had problems with Avent and Dr. Brown's leaking. Three, they cleaned up beautifully. A trip through the dishwasher and they looked like new. I feel that the others got cloudy after several uses. As far as the breakage possibility, I dropped them SEVERAL times and actually only broke one. Thankfully it was in my garage. I hope this helps. My son now uses the Born Free sippy cup, BPA-free plastic. Good Luck!

Playtex drop-ins do not have BPA in them!

Yes, Avent is coming out with a BPA-free bottle sometime this year (according to their website) . However, their Tempo line (similar to Playtex Drop-Ins)is BPA-Free. I use the Tempo refills and I like them a lot. I too was concerned about the whole BPA thing, but also really wanted to use Avent for many other reasons, so the Tempo was a nice solution. HTH ;)

I LOVE the Adiri nurser. It's been the perfect bottle for my daughter. She had a hard time taking any bottle initially, but now does great with this one. I am still nursing her and she does a great job transitioning back and forth when needed. I've never used a better bottle!

I have primarily nursed so my bottle experience isn't extensive, but i have always used the glass and loved them, they are inexpensive, can go safely in the microwave and get nice and clean in the dishwasher, and I have never had one break- though I heard there are sheaths you can buy to make them unbreakable.

I switched from Dr. Brown's to "Born Free" bottles half way thru my babies first year. She took to them with no problems! They are easier to clean too! They have a slight yellow tint to them, but they explain why on the pkg that they are like that...safer plastics. They are expensive thou...2 bottles were $19 I think!!!

Hope that helps a little! Oh...and I've only seen them at Babies R Us. Not at Target or Walmart yet.

:)

I use born free bottles with my son. They were a little pricey but I'm all about BPA free. They are very much like avent!

My daughter is six months old & is exclusively breast fed (no formula) so I don't have a lot of bottle experience with her. But I do try to pump & then give her a bottle now & then & we use the "Born Free" 5 oz bottles. I like them (no leaking problems) but my baby would of course prefer to nurse so she'll only sort of drink from them. I also tried the Thinkbaby 5 oz but those do seem to leak more. Good luck!!

I use Sassy MAM bottles (5 oz and 9 oz sizes) for my twins. I love them because they're BPA Free and also have a seal designed into the system to prevent air bubbles. Only drawback is there are 6 parts to one bottle (cap, nipple, nipple ring, bottle, seal and base) - however, after washing and putting together 12+ bottles/day for 6 months, it doesn't bother me at all! They come in several colors if that's of interest to you and are available all over - got mine at Babies R Us.

You are actually safe using your Avent bottles, because I read in the Parenting magazine last week that they are Bisphenol-a (BPA) Free. O, and I noticed you are expecting number 2 also and I am 31 weeks pregnant this Thurs.!! GOOD LUCK :)

We too used Avent the first time around and I thought I really liked those until I turned them in to babies r us for a credit and got Born Free. LOVE them!! They are a little more to wash b/c of the vent but great. There is no letting go of the nipple to let the air out like avent and would highly recommend them!! They are expensive however so since I am nursing we only bought about 6 of them while I was at work. I think they are better than Dr. Brown's b/c of the pain it is to clean those however know they make the BPA free ones now too.

try breast feeding and you won't have to worry about any of that stuff If you are able. It's the best thing for the baby in many ways.

I use the Dr Browns Glass bottles. They do have Dr Browns BPA free now. Also, Playtex drop ins are safe, which is probably the least expensive way to go. My daughter didn't like the Playtex otherwise I would have used them. You can go to www.safemama.com & it will tell you all the bottles, sippy cups, etc... that are BPA free.

Hi T.-

i LOVE green to grow bottles. you can get them online or at whole foods. My daughter likes the nipples, but if your baby doesn't like them the nuk nipples also work great- I liked the option of having different nipples to see what worked for her. The bottles are BPA and phalate free and the company is very green with its packaging. I've had a few questions about the bottles and when i call or email i get someone or a resonse right away- they are a good company. The bottles are priced pretty good and very cute looking too!

I also love these bpa free pacificers http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014D47YC?ie=UTF8&t....

best of luck- going "bpa free" is easier than it seems!

I love the Born Free bottles. The only problem is that there are a lot of parts to clean. I just throw them in the basket in the dishwasher though. Never had a problem with leaks. I personally did not like the Avent bottles because they leaked. I think a lot of other companies are coming out with BPA-free bottles though so you might check the websites. Also, I have heard that Babies R Us will let you trade in all your old bottles to get a gift card to buy BPA-free bottles. You might call and make sure that is true though since I am not positive.

I just read in parent's magazine that Avent makes BPA free bottles, but they are more expensive. I'm sure you can google their website and there should be info on there.

We loved our Born Free bottles; the safe-plastic ones. It eliminated all gas issues as well as being a safe bottle.

I also use Born Free bottles. I really like them. Be aware there are a few parts. Two inner discs that fit together & use under the nipple.

I use Born Free as well and have no complaints. We tried Sassy MAM but had a lot of leaking from the nipple and the bottom. Gerber also makes a BPA free bottle and they are very cheap -- 3 for $5 or so. We had problems with the nipples on those though.

If you do a google search, there are lots of lists of BPA free bottles. Just make sure you have an updated list. Dr. Brown's now makes a BPA Free, but that wasn't on several of the lists that I've seen. BRU is having a hard time keeping them in stock though.