Ever since the Sigg Saga, I just don’t trust stainless steel water bottles (yes, Virginia – it IS a conspiracy….) And as I’ll be nursing after baby is born, I just won’t feel comfortable drinking out of plastic water bottles either.  So, what to do?

Fred Flare to the rescue!  Fred has these clever glass water bottles, that are fashioned after, and fit into all the spaces that plastic water bottles do.  Glass is recyclable, reusable – and, thank Vishnu, safe. (Unless you drop it!)

A clear solution.

It’s already in the 50′s here in Chicago (which I actually love).   By the time our son arrives in a few weeks, we should be down to the 40′s. And a few weeks from then….

This fabulous owl, made of yummy flannel and filled with an organic spelt seed pack, is the perfect gift for a Fall or Winter baby.  You warm the spelt seed pack in the oven for a few minutes, and pop it back into the owl to make a cozy crib warmer.  Babys LOVE this thing, especially if they are having tummy troubles.

So much nicer than a water bottle.

I have just tossed our two Sigg bottles that I bought hoping to avoid the BPA that we would be exposed to by using plastic water bottles. 

This was of particular importance to me as I am pregnant, and I TRUSTED these bottles to spare me the anxiety of drinking out of plastic for these critical months.

My trust was misplaced.

Last week, Sigg issued this statement which claims that only post August 2008 Sigg bottles are ACTUALLY BPA free – I missed this earlier statement last year as I was not pregnant, and quite frankly, didn’t care – in which it seems that they do admit the possible presence of BPA in thier bottles.

Why do I care as a pregnant woman?  BPA (Bisphenol A), is an endocrine disruptor, it can mimic the body’s own hormones, which is increasingly being linked to sexual organ development and:

“The first study of bisphenol A’s effects on humans was published in September 2008 by Iain Lang and colleagues in the Journal of the American Medical Association.^[11][59]The cross-sectional study of almost 1,500 people assessed exposure to bisphenolA by looking at levels of the chemical in urine. The authors found that high bisphenol A levels were significantly associated with heart disease, diabetes, and abnormally high levels of certain liver enzymes. An editorialin the same issue notes that while this preliminary study needs to be confirmed and cannot prove causality, there is precedent for analogous effects in animal studies, which “add[s] biological plausibility to the results reported by Lang et al.” SOURCE

If you see anyone with the children’s versions, do make sure – even if you look a right loon, to ask the parents if they have heard about the statement.

Lesson #5: You can only trust glass.