Glass bottles??

ecarey123 · May 2014

Does anyone have any advice or experience with glass vs plastic baby bottles? I am a first time mom and am going to register for Dr. Brown bottles based off the advice of several parents that I know. However I'm trying to decide on the glass vs plastic, mainly to reduce the amount of chemicals in pastic products. I do know that the Dr. Brown are BPA free.

amandaleigh1 · May 2014

I used only Dr. Brown glass bottles and never broke a single one. I liked them. For the larger ones, I did use silicone sleeves, which are sold separately.

I had no problem bringing glass bottles to daycare either.

dogperson11 · May 2014

We will be using glass bottles. I've recently switched all our food storage containers to glass as well. I've never liked heating or storing things in plastic. I know everything says BPA free now, but there's research that chemicals still leach out. I also don't put any plastics in the dishwasher and I don't want to hand wash all our bottles all the time.

We are registered for these bottles: Philips AVENT 8 Ounce Natural Glass Bottles, 2-Pack by Philips AVENT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VBXKFS/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_F6Zztb0JCGVEX

And I also registered for these silicone sleeves to protect them: Olababy Silicone Sleeve for AVENT Natural Glass Bottles (8 oz, Green) by Olababy Inc https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOKC2AG/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_b7Zztb0A55DA3

somewhereincali · May 2014

we did born free glass for the bottles we used, no problems with breakage.

It was important to me, yes plastics are now BPA free but they had to come up with this new material quickly and there are now concerns about this new plastics as well.

We do use some plastic for sippys and stuff but especially for bottles where you are heating the liquid (which greatly increases the leaching from plastics), and for really little babies it was important to us to use something like glass

amief · May 2014

Something to consider if your baby will go to daycare... at least around here most daycares won't allow glass bottles.

HopingforChange · May 2014

I have both glass and plastic dr browns. They both work fine. The glass seems sturdy. I haven't broken any.

brachysira · May 2014

We use both glass and plastic. We didn't really heat milk--she never cared. However, we did use the dishwasher and I can tell the plastic is kind of not in the same shape it was when we first got it. I agree with pps that BPA is not the only bad chemical in plastic and you want to minimize exposure. We haven't had a glass bottle break, but we did have one break some other glass when DD dropped the bottle and DH tried to catch it and propelled it towards the table. Broken glass is no fun. The other thing about glass was that DD didn't hold it as well initially because it was heavy. It's fine now. For the next one, I want to do glass, but I'll buy some smaller bottles so new DS does not have to lift so much.

Alexandra1513 · May 2014

We will be using life factory glass bottles for the same reasons listed above. We too believe that even though they say BPA free it is still plastic and we just don't trust it. My aunt used the life factory for her daughter and only broke a few and it was after her daughter was 18 months and had a bad habit of throwing bottle across the room.

ecarey123 · May 2014

Amanda do you wash the glass ones in the dish washer? The glass weren't to heavy for your child to hold?

Meether · May 2014

Honestly, my daughter wasn't very picky, so the Evenflo $1-$2 glass bottles worked well for us. It was nice because they attached to my pump also

amandaleigh1 · May 2014

I did wash my glass bottles in the dishwasher leaving the silicone sleeve on. The big ones are heavy and my son was never much interested in holding it. I don't think of that as a very important developmental milestone. He now holds a cup just fine

ariel06 · May 2014

Meether said:

Honestly, my daughter wasn't very picky, so the Evenflo $1-$2 glass bottles worked well for us. It was nice because they attached to my pump also

We really liked those too. My kids were somewhat bottle fussy. They wouldn't take Dr. Browns. We used Playtex drop ins and Evenflo glass. Whatever you do, plan on trying a couple kinds, especially if you're mainly breast feeding.

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