How do you keep up?!

Hava — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:35:38 +0000

The internet can be a wonderful and terrible thing all at once. Online shopping, wikipedia, blogs…all wonderful things. Then there is the other hand of looking up information and trying to decipher what is crap. There are so many schools of thought when it comes to raising kids these days. When the twins were still in the NICU I asked one of the neonatologists which preemie books I should buy and she said “None of them, if you have a question talk to us”. That could be taken with a grain of salt because I didn’t always agree with them but I valued much of their knowledge. Tadd would look things up online only to find the worst case scenario stories. I had that happen to me once and realized I couldn’t deal with it, so no more reading other peoples experiences unless Tadd had looked at it first and deemed it acceptable. I still haven’t bought any baby books. I try to use my own intuition and will call the doctor if there is anything I am unsure about. But who do you talk to re: carriers, car seats, bouncers and now bottles?? We originally started Loen on the Dr. Brown’s bottles on the suggestion from a NICU nurse and Derby liked any ol’ cheap bottle. With all the talk about Bisphenol A (BPA) in bottles I got a little worried. This is where the internet (for me at least) was helpful. I found this site, Safe Mama, that gives a wonderful list of BPA free bottles, sippy cups and teethers. Tadd and I decided to toss most of the bottles and start fresh with ones we knew for certain were BPA free. It could be crazy hype or it could be the new red dye #5. Where do you draw the line???

thetadpoles.com » BPA

How do you keep up?!