Does anyone know when plastic baby bottles came into use?

[hedgehog]

Given the data linking Bisphenol A to prostate cancer,

http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/toxicnation/action/bisphenolfaq.htm

I'm curious as to which cohorts of males were exposed.

[niyad]

1. what got me was some report I saw yesterday that said that the evil empire

would get rid of all those plastic bottles NEXT YEAR

[shraby]

2. I don't know, but they were around in the 1960s

[coriolis]

3. I think 1950s (?)...and I'm trying to figure out what word you mean instead of "cohorts"

;-)

[hedgehog]

7. Age group?

[coriolis]

12. Okay, I see what you're asking. I remember my little brother and sister still had glass

in the early to mid 50s when they were babies but I vaguely recall the "new" plastic ones coming out about then. Don't think my mom used them though.

[enlightenment]

11. Why confusing?

The OP was trying to identify the groups most likely to have been given plastic baby bottles - I've seen it defined several ways, but I tend to think of an age cohort as 5 years on either side of a given age, or a 10 year range.

I grant you, the sentence as written is a bit tortured . . . :) (and I'm the last person who should be criticising a tortured sentence . . .) ;)

[coriolis]

15. I just never heard the word used that way! Which means nothing at all.

:D

[katty]

4. i think around mid-1960's--and they used to boil

the bottles for complete sanitation

[grasswire]

5. many decades ago, I believe

The fifties, perhaps?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I had glass in the late 50's. My sister had plastic by 1960.

[hedgehog]

8. That's my memory. What were/ are the nipples made from?

[coriolis]

13. I think natural rubber back then. I can remember heating up a needle and poking

a couple of small holes in the tips to let the milk go out! (weird how some of those old memories hang in there)
;-)

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Rubber.

BTW, in the 70s I think Playtex came out with a baby bottle that had disposable plastic bags inside the plastic bottle. The nipple was designed like a human nipple, and the selling point was the baby would nurse "naturally", taking in less air, and hence less cramping.

Here's the modern version:
http://www.playtexbaby.com/Products/Bottles/DropIns.aspx

[ginnyinWI]

9. In 1974 we had flexible plastic bottles and glass bottles.

The glass was considered old-fashioned and not too many used them. But the plastic wasn't the clear rigid plastic that is problematic now; it was opaque and came in colors like pink and blue.

[kestrel91316]

10. I babysat in the late 60s and honestly don't remember.

I was too freaked out by the diaper thing.

[Ilsa]

14. Fortunately, glass baby bottles are starting to make a comeback.

There are a number of sellers of glass.

Neither of my baby boys needed bottles, fortunately. They both did well at the breast and I wasn't working outside the home.

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. Sometime *after* the invention of plastic...

I'll bet money on it....







:rofl:

Ok, I'm in a good mood for a change... sue me!

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. I think the "mom" view was

plastic doesn't break .

If I knew then what I know now <sigh>

[yardwork]

19. I don't think that Bisphenol A was in the early plastic bottles.

I thought that the problem was with these newer, clear plastics?