Brian fed Erin a bottle this weekend, she was rejecting it. Wondering what could be the cause, the ever-vigilant dad took a swig.
B: Uuuuggghhh! Ash, how old is this milk?
A: I just pumped it this morning.
Apparently heating the bottle gave the milk a very chemical-y, metalic taste. So, to be sure he didn't have defective taste buds, Brian requested a second opinion. But who should one turn to at a time like this?
"Uh, Dave?" asked a sheepish Brian on the phone. "Can you come over here and taste Ash's milk?"
And so the tasting began.
And so the tasting began.They cautiously sipped a modest amount of the offending milk left in a bottle. Then they tasted a bit freshly pumped. Yes, there was an off-taste in the first milk tasted. Yes, we give these heated bottles 4x/day to our little girl at daycare.
What we've learned in the intervening hours between the taste-test and this post is that clear, shatter-proof bottles such as the ones on the left leach a substance BPA into food after repeated use of the bottle. BPA mimics estrogen and has been linked to, among other things, changes to the genital tract, early onset of puberty, insulin resistance, and cancer. The bottle type on the right is a different plastic that does not leach BPA. Needless to say, we are changing bottles. Also, Dave B. is a very, very good friend.
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