How to Use Glass Baby Bottles, BPA Free

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By Pamela Rappaport
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Glass baby bottles are back. After years of using plastic baby feeding bottles, concerned moms are turning back to glass baby bottles. Bisphenol A, known as BPA, is used in the making of almost all plastic baby bottles. Besides being used in the manufacturing of plastics, it is a synthetic hormone that acts like estrogen. The problem comes about because it leaches out of the plastic when heated. The best way to avoid this problem is to use a glass baby bottle to feed your infant. If you switch to glass baby bottles you will also have the added benefit of being green.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Glass baby bottles are cleaned the same way as plastic bottles. They can be boiled, go into a sterilizer or they can go into your dishwasher. You will not have to invest in anything different to switch your baby feeding bottles.
Step 2

The cost of glass baby bottles may seem prohibitive at first. The cost is approximately twice that of the lower end plastic ones. However, a glass baby bottle lasts indefinitely. Unless it is broken it can be passes down from infant to infant.
Step 3

There is a concern with breakage when it comes to a glass baby bottle. But the market has risen to the occasion with shields to protect your glass baby bottle. There is a link in the resource section to some really cute ones. You should be careful giving an infant a glass baby bottle to hold on their own if it is not shielded in some way.
Step 4

Sometimes what is old is new again, give glass baby bottles a try.