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Campaign for Removal of BPA from British Baby Bottles

Mindful Mum UK BPA-Free Baby Bottle GuideOn the 30th of Novem­ber 2009, an Early Day Motion, BISPHENOL A AND BABY BOTTLES, was sub­mit­ted for debate in the House of Com­mons. Breast Can­cer UK has pub­lished a let­ter to Health Sec­re­tary, Andy Burn­ham, from a group of sci­en­tists back­ing its No More BPA Cam­paign. This was sup­ported with the results of its sur­vey of 2000 adults show­ing that 79 per cent agreed that “it is impor­tant that the UK Gov­ern­ment acts in a pre­cau­tion­ary way when it comes to pro­tect­ing babies and very young chil­dren from BPA”.

The Cana­dian Gov­ern­ment and bot­tle man­u­fac­tur­ers in the United States have already taken action to remove BPA from baby bot­tles. How­ever, The Food Stan­dard Agency con­sid­ers expo­sure of UK con­sumers to bisphe­nol A (BPA) to be well below lev­els con­sid­ered harmful.

The FSA “has esti­mated that a three-month-old bottle-fed baby that weighs around 6 kg would need to con­sume more than four times the usual num­ber of bot­tles of baby for­mula a day before it would reach the tol­er­a­ble daily amount. This amount that can be eaten every day, over a whole life­time, with­out caus­ing appre­cia­ble harm.”

So, what does Mind­ful Mum think…

Mind­ful Mum believes that the FSA is miss­ing a vital fac­tor in their analy­sis — par­ent behaviour!

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How to choose BPA free baby bottles

Mindful Mum Guide to Avoiding BPA in Baby BottlesIn March 2009 the six largest man­u­fac­tur­ers of baby bot­tles announced that they are to dis­con­tinue the use of the chem­i­cal BPA in baby bot­tles. Hur­rah!  Man­u­fac­tur­ers are tak­ing heed of mum’s demands to remove bish­phe­nol A (BPA) from baby bot­tles for good.

But, and it’s a big but…

The man­u­fac­tur­ers are going to con­tinue sell­ing bot­tles con­tain­ing BPA in the UK.  How do you choose a safe BPA free baby bot­tle for your baby if you live in the UK?

Fol­low the Mind­ful Mum steps to ensure BPA free baby feeding.

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BPA Linked to Behavioural Problems in Girl Toddlers

BPA-Impact-Toddler-GirlsA study reported in Envi­ron­men­tal Health Per­spec­tives and again in Sci­ence News links fetal expo­sure to BPA to behav­ioural prob­lems in two year old girls. Girls whose moth­ers were exposed to high lev­els of BPA in early preg­nancy tended to become some­what more aggres­sive than nor­mal. The research finds girls some­what ‘mas­culinised’ and the boys a bit ‘feminised’.

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Glass Week — Glass is pure, inert and BPA free

Friends of Glass (RGB)Try­ing to decide whether to buy plas­tic or glass bot­tles for your baby?

Find out more about the ben­e­fits of glass this week dur­ing Choose Glass Week.  The 21st to 27th of Sep­tem­ber, is ded­i­cated to glass and aims to raise aware­ness of the ben­e­fits of glass across Europe.  Mind­ful Mum is an advo­cate of glass baby bot­tles and has high­lighted the ben­e­fits of glass bot­tles for both your baby and the envi­ron­ment in this blog.  Mind­ful Mum believes glass is the safest option for your fam­ily.  Here are some key facts you may not know about glass.

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Glass baby bottles

Glass baby bot­tles are mak­ing a come back in the UK. News reports con­cern­ing toxic chem­i­cals leach­ing from plas­tic baby bot­tles into baby milk is lead­ing par­ents back to the tra­di­tional glass bot­tle as the safest option after breast feeding.

The good news is that glass bot­tles range from tra­di­tional nar­row necked bot­tles to wide necked anti-colic bot­tles with colour­ful designs to please the most fun lov­ing and health con­scious mum.

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BPA Free Plastic Baby Bottles

BPA-Free-Bottle-Range

Look­ing for a BPA free plas­tic bot­tle to feed baby? Mind­ful Mum selects the top BPA free baby bot­tles avail­able in the UK.

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Get The Family Involved In Bottle Feeding Baby

Guest author, Robin Cas­sidy, dis­cusses the ben­e­fits of get­ting all whole fam­ily involved dur­ing bot­tle feed­ing baby.

This  can be espe­cially help­ful for a mother with a newly arrived baby. Dur­ing this time feed­ing her child will be a happy though very tir­ing time. Get­ting oth­ers in your fam­ily to help out can be a great help. Con­tinue read­ing “Get The Fam­ily Involved In Bot­tle Feed­ing Baby” →

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Dr Brown’s BPA Free Bottle

Buy Dr Brown’s BPA Free Bot­tle
From £6.49 for 240 ml (8 fl oz)dr brown's bpa free sticker

Dr Brown’s has launched a BPA free bot­tle in the UK made from polypropy­lene (PP). The bot­tle is also avail­able in glass.

Dr Brown’s are often rec­om­mended for babies that suf­fer from colic. Dr Brown’s bot­tles have an inner vent tube to pre­vent vac­uum and air bub­bles. Unfor­tu­nately the inner tube that does such a good job of keep­ing air sep­a­rate from the milk can also be a source of leaks if used incorrectly.

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