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| Should I warn other mothers about their choice of bottles? |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: Moral issue: Should I tell 'em they're poisoning their kids? |
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So everyday at work, I meet my nanny and baby at the "baby love room" at the COEX Mall, where I eat a sandwich and nurse the baby, and we hang out, play, and often meet lots of Korean moms and babies.
I'd say that about 90% of the women are bottlefeeding their kids, and EVERY time they're using either Avent or Dr. Brown's baby bottles, which have been shown to leach BPA into the formula, so much that they're now banned in Canada.
I don't want to be one of those "sanctimommies", criticizing other women for their parenting choices, but in this case, I don't think it's a choice they've made with all the evidence.
Should I make up a small sheet of information and when I see a woman with them, sheepishly hand it to her? Usually by this point our kids are squealing and smiling at each other, and everyone's really happy and friendly.
This BPA stuff is evil, acts like an environmental estrogen, and is associated with certain cancers... and is especially risky for pregnant women and infants. I realize that I'm basically telling women to ditch all their baby bottles (usually women buy a huge set of them)...
I mean, they'll feel bad once they go on the internet and look it up themselves (and I know for sure that the info IS out there on the Korean internet), but imagine how they'll feel by the time the kid is 6 and they realize that they've been exposing them to toxins their whole lives? |
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sistersarah
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
Location: hiding out
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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If I had a baby I'd be happy for any information about anything I may be doing wrong. I know it's tough when you're dealing with another culture, but still, I'd rather know.
Which bottles in Korea are safe to use? |
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Vancouver
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Moral issue: Should I tell 'em they're poisoning their k |
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Jeju Rocks
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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The 'bad' bottles are the ones with the triangle with a 7 in it on the bottom.
So, the question is.... where in Korea can one find glass baby bottles?
I have never seen them.
Also while you are at it, why don't you tell them about the bad air their kids are breathing? |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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I can understand your wanting to inform them but also not wanting to spoil the rapport. One way to avoid having them stuck with a hungry kid and a bad bottle is to hand them a good bottle along with the information. As another poster said, which bottles in Korea are safe? And if they're not available in Korea (as yet another poster alleged), then what can they do?
By the way, this other thread should be locked. |
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d-rail
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| The 'bad' bottles are the ones with the triangle with a 7 in it on the bottom. |
does that mean the Nalgene bottles are unsafe to use? you know, the kind every university student (in the u.s. at least) carries around? i use mine every day at school as a water bottle.  |
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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| does that mean the Nalgene bottles are unsafe to use? |
Yup, a friend told me that Nalgene has stopped producing the #7 bottles becuase of this new discovery. However I read that the chemicals are only released if you use the bottles with hot liquids, so if you on,ly use your nalgene for cold drinks then you should be ok. |
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Bryan
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Moral issue: Should I tell 'em they're poisoning their k |
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| simone wrote: |
So everyday at work, I meet my nanny and baby at the "baby love room" at the COEX Mall, where I eat a sandwich and nurse the baby, and we hang out, play, and often meet lots of Korean moms and babies.
I'd say that about 90% of the women are bottlefeeding their kids, and EVERY time they're using either Avent or Dr. Brown's baby bottles, which have been shown to leach BPA into the formula, so much that they're now banned in Canada.
I don't want to be one of those "sanctimommies", criticizing other women for their parenting choices, but in this case, I don't think it's a choice they've made with all the evidence.
Should I make up a small sheet of information and when I see a woman with them, sheepishly hand it to her? Usually by this point our kids are squealing and smiling at each other, and everyone's really happy and friendly.
This BPA stuff is evil, acts like an environmental estrogen, and is associated with certain cancers... and is especially risky for pregnant women and infants. I realize that I'm basically telling women to ditch all their baby bottles (usually women buy a huge set of them)...
I mean, they'll feel bad once they go on the internet and look it up themselves (and I know for sure that the info IS out there on the Korean internet), but imagine how they'll feel by the time the kid is 6 and they realize that they've been exposing them to toxins their whole lives? |
You don't actually know anything about BPA. You're like one of those anti-aspartame nutjobs.
Do you understand the concept of dosage and duration? I'll put $100 down that your BA wasn't in the sciences. |
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