The new glass bottles from Green to Grow are both excellent quality and an affordable way to ensure your baby has the healthiest start to life.  Made from break resistant glass, these bottle come with a 0-3 month slow flow nitrosamine-free silicone teat.

The caps and rings are made from polypropylene plastic (PP), which is also BPA-free, and the teats are made from a medical grade silicone.

Graduated measurements are embossed into glass in ounces and milliliters.

Bottles are tested in the USA and Europe to ensure they meet the highest standards for quality and safety.

Available in either single or twin packs.  Also available in 120mls.

Replacement teats are available for Green To Grow Bottles.

Buyer information:
Why is it important to buy BPA free baby bottles?

• Bispehnol A is believed to be a human hormone disruptor that is leached when plastics containing this compound are heated such as warm milk being in a baby bottle or water that warms naturally with sun light etc in a drink bottle, or hot food into a bowl.  Babies and young children are more succeptible to absorbing BPA because their bodies are smaller and less efficent at processing the toxin, therefore a more likely to absorb higher concentrations of BPA.

•  BPA-Free Baby Bottles are no more expensive than bottles containing BPA, so where possible it is advised that parents choose baby bottles and feeding products that do not contain BPA.
• Increasingly around the globe it is illegal to sell baby bottles that contain BPA.  The New Zealand Food Safety Authority is yet to reach a position on this, but it is expected that at some point it will also be illegal to sell baby bottles that contain BPA in New Zealand.

How to choose the right bottle for a baby:

• Baby's can be fussy little monkeys (especially slightly older ones) and for many parents (including us) finding a bottle/teat that suits your baby takes a bit of trial and error and some perserverance from parents and care givers.   
• We only stock BPA free baby bottles that are of the highest quality and going to be long lasting.   We have also choosen a variety of bottle and teat shapes so hopefully we can satisfy even the most decerning little drinker when it comes time to introduce a bottle.

How and when to introduce a bottle?

• When you choose to introduce a bottle is a very individual choice for parents.  Some express and give one bottle feed a day from as early as week two.   As long as parents/caregivers continue to give it regularly they are unlikely to experience too much difficulty with introducing other feeds - formula or cows milk longer term.   Otheres will exclusively breast feed till they get to a point where they need or want to introduce a bottle.  Some babies will happily accept expressed milk or formula (often these are the children that also go on to eat anything!), others (mine included) have been very fussy about a bottle and not easy to wean.  (similarly these children - mine included - often grow up to have very particular likes and dislikes with foods/textures from an early age).  For these children, it is likely that you will need to really perservere if you want to partially or fully wean.    

A few tips:

• Try baby on a bottle when they are not hugely hungry or tired when when they are relaxed - often after the morning sleep is a good time. 
• Try to be relaxed your self - babies are like animals and smell your fear/anxiety a mile a way and are less likey to be compliant than if you are relaxed.
• Try to have something that will distract baby while introducing the bottle - often they will unconsciously suck if distracted and looking at something else - a book, mobile etc.
• If possible have your husband/partner/grandparent/friend try to feed the bottle, especially if you are introducing formula or cows milk  - babies smell breast milk from a mile away are a less easily convinced to drink something else if they can smell the real deal.
• If introducing formula try a few different types - some babies really do like the taste of one formula compared to another.  It also helps to put a bit into food (if eating) so they are already slightly used to the taste.
• Try every day.  Even though it feels like a terrible waste if your little one is refusing the bottle, keep trying as regularly a possible - once or twice a day.   Most supermarkets sell single sachets of different formula's so you're not having to buy a whole tin before you know what's going to suit your baby.   For mothers expressing breast milk, freeze it in ice cubes so you only need to use a couple at a time or just express of 30 to 50mls to try baby so you're not mucking up your milk supply or wasting precious milk.
• Hold baby firmly and hold the bottle in their mouth.  Try singing, reading, a mobile etc to distract at this point and see if baby will start to suck.  Baby may well protest a bit, keep trying a couple of times, then if you have no luck tell your baby you will try again later and move on to the next activity.

Babies Who Really Won't Wean!

• Occassionally there are babies who are really stubbon and will not take a bottle.  A few things that you may want to try:
• Flesh coloured plasters over your nipples - this sounds extreme but is really quite amazing, especially for old babies (around 11 months + ).  When it is feed time you get baby into the feeding position and lift your top. Baby will search for your nipple - because the plasters are covering the nipple (in an x or + shape) there is nothing there and you can say to baby "all gone" and offer them something else.   They will often have more of a look, then accept that these is nothing there to drink from.   You can do this to drop a feed or to slowly wean all together.   Remember to express off small amounts of  milk as you are cutting down on feeds to avoid any possible infection.  
• Spraying breast milk in to their mouth.  This sounds bizzare, but apparently it really works for some babies.  Funnily enough babies actually don't really taste much breast milk as when they are sucking the nipple is so far back in their mouth that the milk virtually goes straight down their throat.  It is largely the sucking action that is comforting, of course they get a lovely full belly as well!  When baby starts to feed pull them off and squeeze the side of your nipple to spray milk into the front of their mouth.  Often they really don't like this and will pull off as they get a taste on the taste buds at the front of their mouths that it completely different to what they are used to. As they go to feed again repeat this.  You may well find that baby will then pull off all together and not want more for that feed.  Offer a bottle instead!
• If your baby is refusing to take a bottle remember to be really aware  of your baby's fluid intake.  Keep fluids up with a sippy cup, adding extra fluids to solid food and even giving baby teaspoons of water, breast milk, formula or cows milk (for babies over 12 months) to ensure that they don't get dehydrated.