Baby Safe Bottled Water in Glass Containers???

You could try a bottled water company. My parents used to work for one and they had these nice size bottles of water for sale that fit right in the fridge and you could get different kinds, like distilled, fluoride, etc. so maybe that could be an option.

Hi S.!

This sounded a little over the top to me. I have family in the medical industry and I've known pediatricians all my life. Never once have I heard of the plastic leaching into bottled water so much that it makes it unsafe. Now a bottle in an oven heated to 400 degrees, the plastic will begin to break down and melt at that point. Texas may seem like it, but it is nowhere near that hot!

So I searched for 'plastic bottle' on snopes.com, thinking you may have read this somewhere on the internet and believed it. It turns out that it is false. A college student wrote about this for his master thesis which was never subject to peer review, meaning no other scientific tests ever concluded that heated bottles were unsafe. In fact, it was tested and concluded to be SAFE before, and again after the media reported on the student's paper. This kind of stuff is passed around quickly because it scares people. Please read this link if you would like more info, and in the future, if something sounds fishy, do a search on snopes.com. I love this site! They have thousands of people on staff to research and figure out if things are true or false, and it can save you a lot of worry.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

I understand you are a single mom and you are trying very hard to be on top of everything. You are doing a great job! Try to make sure you are worried for a good reason though. In other words, don't sweat the small stuff. =)

I don't think they have anything like that but you can always buy those plastic ones then once you get home, you transfer the water into glass bottle containers. But I think unless your baby is extremely sensitive, water in plastic containers should be fine.

What about Voss...available at Central Market? It comes in glass bottles.

I've lost the link, because it's been over a year, to an article de-bunking the whole plastic leaching myth sent to me by a friend who is also a nutritionist. Besides, the water would have to get really really hot (as in would probably melt) for such leaching to occur.

Actually, there are a several published resources that state there is a link between heating certain baby bottles and leaching of Bisphenol-A so your concerns are not unfounded. "Born Free" (www.newbornfree.com) bottles are made for this purpose, and this is a big thing in Europe. Most of these however are related to the heating of baby bottles, and may not occur with normal use of water bottles. However, I certainly would not drink from them after leaving them in a hot car all day. If curious search for Bisphenol-A on the internet and polycarbonate and polypropylene. To answer your question, I am not sure of any glass bottles, but why not just keep your water bottles cool with ice packs?

This may sound simplistic, but why not put cold/frozen tap water in your own container. If Stefan has teeth, the fluoride will help.

I have read TONS of articles, including those from Consumer Reports Health and in various journals that say that at least 1/4 of all bottled water is taken straight from the tap. I would buy a Brita (or any other brand) filter and put it in whatever container you normally put your child's drinks into or any other glass container you may find.

Not sure if either of these is the link mentioned in the post below...

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cookplastic.asp

S.,

evenflo has small glass baby bottles that are sold at Babie r us. That may work for you.

L.