BPA free sippy cups

I am sure many of you have been hearing of the issue of BPA in the plastics. BPA or Bisphenol A is an estrogen-like chemical used to make plastic. It is found in many products, disturbingly many baby products. Of 5 popular baby bottle brands Avent, Dr. Brown’s Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex ALL were shown to have unsafe levels of Bisphenol A. How do companies get away with this harmful chemical in baby products? Each one smugly knows that their specific product contains levels that are considered safe. The problem is that we use many of these products. It bothers me that so many baby products have this harmful chemical in it and there could be a cumulative effect on their tiny bodies. You can read more about the effects of BPA here.

I have been bothered by this but have not really done anything about it. I felt lucky in this one regard that Katherine did not take a bottle thus she was at least protected from BPA from bottles. She also was not that into her teething toys though she did chew from time to time. But, she now uses sippy cups all the time. I have been lazy and have not really taken the time to research the non-BPA plastic options out there.

Well, lazy no more, the research has been done for me by. Nature Moms has done a review of BPA free sippy cups. There are actually quite a few out there including the Nuby brand which is one of the ones that we use. They are certainly the most affordable. Even better, they are giving one of the nicer ones, the Safe Sippy away. Just go to the link above to see how you too can enter to win the BPA free sippy cup.