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Hearing the latest news on toxic products is enough to make a mom throw her hands up in despair! As loving parents, we are all trying to do our best to protect our children and create the healthiest environment possible for them to grow up in, but lately that seems to be getting more difficult.
Personally, I want to purchase safer products – especially when it comes to items that my baby has in her mouth – but I feel overwhelmed trying to figure out what products are safe and where to find them. So naturally I was relieved to find The Soft Landing, where mom and registered nurse Alicia Voorhies, has done the research and offers a fantastic selection of safer, non-toxic feeding products, like Bisphenol-a free bottles, sippy cups and lead free bibs.
Alicia says,
While searching for safe feeding gear, I realized how limited the information was and how few options were available. What started as a growing awareness of toxic plastics, became a mission to care for my own children and newborn nephews. A highly motivated search team grew out of my concerned family members and now we work together to find the highest quality non-toxic baby care products for our children and yours.
Our passion is to help concerned parents raise healthy children in the most natural way possible. We just know youʼll benefit from our research and personal experience! Whether youʼre looking for bisphenol-a free bottles and sippy cups or lead free bibs, weʼve got you covered from start to finish. Dive in and discover how making a few key changes in the products you use can give your baby the best health advantage possible.
We have been using the Born Free Baby Bottles with Olivia (my wonderful husband gives me a break in the night with a bottle of expressed breast milk) and we love the peace of mind we get knowing that the Born Free Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups are made from a safer alternative plastic called Polyamide (PA) that is free of Bisphenol-A. (Scientific studies show that even very low levels of Bisphenol-A can be harmful to babies – but incredibly many companies are still using it in their baby products! USA Today has an illuminating article on the subject.)
And not only are the Born Free Bottles safer, they have a special venting system that reduces the vacuum that happens with conventional bottles so the baby can gently suckle when feeding.
I was also intrigued by the Adiri Natural Nurser that was designed with the help of doctors, moms and lactation consultants and plan on trying it out too.
The Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle is made from high quality 100% polycarbonate-free materials that warm to a child’s cheek, like a breast, when filled with warm milk. A patented nipple design helps alleviate nipple confusion for breastfeeding babies. Shaped like a breast, they encourage the same type of open-mouthed latching that is required for breastfeeding, making bottle and breastfeeding more easily interchangeable.
That sounds fantastic to me!
Alicia is offering one BornFree Gift Set worth $44.99 and one Multi Stage set of the Adiri Natural Nurser worth $35.50 in our Christmas Giveaway.
(These bottles are so popular that they are on backorder until mid-December.)
If you want to try out the Born Free or the Adiri Natural Nurser, leave a comment here to be entered. If you have a preference about which one you would like to try, mention it in your comment. (If you are having trouble choosing, Alicia has a great post comparing the bottles on her blog.)
For detailed instructions on our Giveaway, see the Christmas Giveaway 2007 post (including the code to put our Christmas Giveaway button on your site.)
But here is the quick run through:
- Leave a comment on this post to be entered.
- Either post a link to this contest OR post a button linking to our Christmas Giveaway post. (If you post the button and link to the Christmas Giveaway, you are qualified to enter in all the upcoming Christmas Giveaway contests. And we have many more contests to come!) Non-bloggers are welcome too – we understand you can’t link – but feel free to pass the word on to your friends.
(This giveaway is open to US shipping addresses only.)
Adiri Natural Nurser sounds wonderful.
I am so happy to have found a website dedicated to the health and well-being of our children. I switched my daughter from Dr. Brown’s to the Born Free easily and she now uses the Born Free sippy cups! I had trouble breastfeeding and am very interested in the Adiri set to try with my next child! Looks wonderful AND I love that it was a struggling small business that thankfully has taken off!
-Megan
I know a few people who could use these!
definitely like to try out the natural nurser bottles!
please include me! you can never have enough bottles!
I’ve been wanting to try these bottles!
Sounds great. Please enter me. Thanks.
this would be nice. thanks!
OhHhh!! Bottles that are safe!!! count me in too please!!
My daughter in law is pregnant with our first grandchild. We would love to win these bottles! Thank you!
The Born Free would be great for the little girl I babysit. Thanks for the giveaway!
great invention
good luck 2 all 🙂
my baby would love these.
I’d love to win the Born Free set.
Please enter me for either!
I’d love this! Thanks!
We would love to win!!!!!!!
I’m in! Thanks 🙂
add me to the lise
Great baby shower gift
I’ll try whatever bottles will work! Those look great!
My nephew is soon to be born, and would love these.
Please count me in!
This is SUCH a good idea!
We need these!
Thx for featuring these.
wonderful
Enter me, Please!
I would love to try these!
another great contest. thanks
Anything safer is worth the money.
This will make a great baby gift
Looking for the best bottle to give to my friend. I know feeding must be high tech in 2007!
In case I forgot to enter already, please enter me in this one.
The natural nurser bottles are so cool! Thanks for the chance to win.
This look like a great alternative to the more popular bottles. I’d love to use them over any other bottle if i could. thanks for offering such a great giveaway!
jen
I’m loving the natural nurser set with this baby girl on the way! Thanks!
The natural nurser set looks great! Count me in please!
these bottles are wonderful.
great gift!
Thanks for all the contests!
love to win
my friend is expecting any day!! she would love it.
Toooooooooooooooo Cool!
please put my name in the hat! thank you and good luck to all!
Thank you for this contest!! 🙂 I’m expecting my second in a few weeks and would love to try the Adiri bottle. It would have been a miracle find five years ago for my daughter who refused every bottle we tried.
This is a wonderful gift.
Great prize!
We need Christmas gifts!
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fab
Great for the baby
I am loving all this baby stuff :o)
what a creative idea
I would love to win the BornFree Gift Set I would love to try their sippy cups and I would share the bottles with my best friend who is pregnant. Thanks so much.
Awesome
Due in February, so these would be perfect, I’m going to check out her website for all the information, glad to find this research done for me.
I think the Adiri natural bottles are a wonderful way to go from breastfeeding to bottles during those few breaks mom gets. I would love to win them.
enter me
What a great product, everyone needs to explore and be safer these days
I am in!
My great-grandson is due in January and I believe my grand-daughter would love this product. Times have certainly changed since I had children. Yes, please enter me into this contest.
Thank you.
Me too!
My wife is on a quest for these currently.
Great product
creative
Great Product would love to have this
Perfect for a new baby on the way!
Oh those are so neat I have never seen them before!
I have actually been searching for these bottles! I have been trying to ween my daughter from breastfeeding for quite a while now, but she is just not happy with anything other than mommy! I had seen the Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle on a mom blog somewhere a few weeks ago, but couldn’t recall where exactly it was or what it was called. Now & know & how lucky I am to find this giveaway! Please count me in! :]
I’d love to try the Adiri bottles with my 3 month old!
Thanks for all these contests!
Pick me! Pick ME!!! 😀
Please count me in also, thanks!
Hope I win 🙂
Please count me in! Thanks!
Saw these at a health store once, would love them!!
Thanks for the giveaway! These would make a great gift for my sister-in-law expecting her firstborn!!
Great idea. Thanks!
Thanks for the giveaway! My choice – either will do.
would love to win 🙂
Another fantastic item, I would just be thrilled to either give my sis or save for the second child (eventually second, but I stock early!)! Enter me please!
Please include me.
The Adiri natural nurser bottles look great. Maybe then my son would take a bottle!
Please count me in.
i’d take either, but I’d choose the Adiri Natural Nurser
Enter me too! Thanks!
Very cool. I have been wanting to try the born free bottles. Please sign me up for the giveaway.
Glass bottles are a no-no at daycare, so I have begun looking for alternate, safe bottle choices. The Adiri look awesome, I am sure my 4-month-old, Arden, would love them, as she breastfeeds when not at daycare. But, I really like that the Born Free bottles transition into sippy cups, so I think I’d like to try those. Thank you!
these look wonderful! we would love to try either 🙂
Count me in> I think I’d prefer the Adiri.
I have a friend who is expecting on December 9th. This would make a great gift. Thanks for the contest.
Please enter me 🙂
~Amy
I would love to try the adiri bottles with my baby! They sound exactly what I have been looking for! But they are all on back order on their website! Please pick me and help me get my baby to take a bottle!!
please enter me into this contest
I would love an Adiri bottle!
Please enter me. 🙂
I would LOVE to try these!
Hi there! Please enter me into the Christmas Giveaway Contest. I really want to try the Adiri bottles with my newborn. She is breastfeeding exclusively now and at four weeks, I would like to beginn introducing her to the bottle so the I can give my husband a feeding and get a little more sleep (like you mentioned in your post). I am nervous about nipple confusion and these bottles seem like such an excellent choice!!! Plus, it has the good plastic – Yay! Thank you!
Sarah
I would love to give these as a gift to my sister who is due in March and has her baby shower coming up in December! I think I would prefer the gift set, but honestly either would be great!
I would love to give these as a gift!
Great product! Thanks for the chance!
would love to be entered thank you
I would love this. I am expecting in January and would like to use the Adiri Natural Nurser. Please enter me!
expecting a new little one in May. would love to try these! please enter me! thank you!
Please sign me up. My button is all set up on my blog!
Please enter us=). We are expecting in APril- and this is definitely a great product. Thank you!
Please enter me. Thanks!
Count me in! 🙂
I’m expecting in April! This would come in so handy 🙂
Those nurser’s would come in handy one day, innovative!
Although my little one is about to graduate to sippy cups, my sister (who only does all natural, organic EVERYTHING) is due early spring 2008 and this would be the *perfect* present for her.
I have to you linked!
Thanks for the chance and good luck to everyone participating!
Lib
notmuchmorethanthis [at] gmail [dot] com
Please enter me in this contest. i am due in February with my second child and would love to try these out! Thanks…
ooohhh… i wanna try one! 🙂
These would be great for my six month old!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to try the Born free bottles!
We threw out all of the other bottles we were using and purchased a Born Free set, and wow, I’m glad we made that purchase. I love them, and they are great bottles. It’s great you guys are getting the word out on BPA. I haven’t tried Adiri but would love to, so either bottle brand would work for me. No preference. Thank you for hosting a great giveaway.
Wow – this was an enlightening contest to read about. I had no idea about the issues involved with toxins in plastics, especially for baby bottles. Looks like I need to win, otherwise, I’ll be buying!
please enter me in this contest that one that is breast shaped sounds wonderful
Anything that would be bette for my first baby I would love!! Count me in!
What a great website of non-toxic baby products, one stop shopping and no more long searches on the internet! I’m particularly interested in the Adiri Nurser and would love to hear the feedback from other moms who have used either of these bottles.
thanks for allowing us to keep our babies safe from plastic :O)
Thanks for raising awareness on the plastics issue!
natural nurser please enter me
I would love to try either of these with our next baby! Count me in!
Please enter me for the Born Free bottles.
Our second child will be born in Fenrury…this looks like a great bottle! Please count me in!
I was debating whether or not to buy glass bottles for my daughter. The Born Free would be a great plastic alternative!
These would be great.
These look really cool! Thanks for the giveaway, I’d love to win!
been using dr. brown’s–getting rid of them now. would love to try born free. have not been too happy with the gerber fashion tints as the nipples are too hard.
cool!! my best friend would love this!
Bornfree! This is wonderful girls. Count me in for this contest.
No blog, but would be nice to win. Thanks!
This would be a great surprise for my friend who is having twins!
Enter me for the Adiri nurser set!
I would love the natural nurser!
Enter me please for the Adiri nurser. Thanks!
Another great giveaway!
I would love this! Either one sounds great to me… my #2 is due in just a few weeks!
Oh, nice one!
I think the Natural Nurser looks really cool.
Thanks so much for hosting all these contests!
This is really great, I would love to give it to my friend as a gift.
Adiri Natural Nurser sounds like a great choice. I would love to win. Thanks for the contest!
My almost six-week-old and I would love to try the Natural Nursers.
thanks for the information! i’d love to try the adiri bottles.
I am really crazy, I posted the wrong reply to this post. Please disregard previous.
I like the fact that it charges very quickly and I can use it on stairs and in the car or garage for quick cleanups.
I would be most interested in the natural nurser.
Please enter me. I would love either type. Really informative post. Thanks.
I would love to try the Adiri Natural Nurser,my daughter hasent accepted any bottles yet but I have herd great things about it.
I’d really like to try the Adiri bottles. I use the Born Free bottles right now and they are great but my son is on a bottle strike and will only take a bottle from my husband. I’m looking for something that closely resembles me! I am not opposed to the Born Free set btw.
I REALLY want to try the Adiri bottles! They look so cool and I love how they a SAFE for my baby to use! I’m also breastfeeding/bottle feeding and a bottle that is like my breast is nice. I’m not opposed to trying the Born Free bottles either!
Please enter me in your contest to win the Adiri set. I’ve been trying to order them for awhile, but they are backordered everywhere!
Thank you!
Enter me!!!
I’ve been wanting to try the Born Free bottles!
Count me in! I would love to win the Adiri Natural Nurser, to use for my next child.
Would love to win this. I’m expecting in Feb. Please count me in!
Count me in !!
Count me in!
would love the born free.
Either would be fine as I would use it as a baby shower gift for an expecting friend.
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I love having great non-toxic feeding options and can’t wait to try the Adiri bottles with my next baby!
Putting my name in the hat. I know someone who’d love these =)
Count me in please!
Count me in please! I have a little one who will be introduced to a bottle soon.
Both of these bottles look great. I think I would have a hard time choosing which ones. Maybe the Born Free but I am intriqued by the adiri bottles. hmmmmm. tough choices
Count me in
I personally breastfeed but I know someone that due to illness, is unable to breastfeed. I think she would really appreciate this and it will put her mind at ease to know that she is doing the best she can do for her lil’ man.
I have read so many good things about these bottles! I would love to win the Born Free for my sister who is due in Feb….And maybe she would hand them back down if and when I may need them again! I sure wish I would have known about them when my son was nursing…I had a really hard time with him and bottles! Thanks for the great info and the awesome chance to win!
I would love the Born Free bottles. Thank you!
I’m interested in trying the Adiri bottles and would love those as part of the giveaway. I’ve been struggling with my fussy / refluxish baby since he was born and now at 6 months he is refusing the bottle (when he used to seem to prefer it which agonized me). So maybe the Adiri would work and are a safe choice for him, so that I can have a break and go do something for myself solo once in awhile!!
count me in!
Wow…As a mom who eats mostly organic and all natural food and feeds it to her family, I can’t believe I’ve never heard of BPA! How disturbing that so many things, including baby bottles contain it. Please sign me up!
I love the Adiri bottle. I’ve sent them as gifts, used them and advocated their use. I’ve even changed a NICU by turning their LC on to the Adiri bottle which she reccomends to all new NICU parents now!! It’s a gift and product that keeps on giving and it gave a NICU baby (33 weeker) the gift that can never be topped! A breastfeeding relationship that he may not have had the opportunity to have! Thank you for providing us with support for our breastfeeding relationship and giving me the opportunity to do something wonderful for my little guy!
As a foster mother (as well as having 7 birth children) I can get infants at a moments notice, so I like to keep several types of quality bottles on hand. I recently threw out most of the bottles in my collection because they contained BPA. I would love to have the Born Free set. Thanks!
Please enter me for both 🙂
Enter me in!!! Thanks for all the hard work.
looks like a great product :O)
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Please enter me for the Born Free giveaway. Thanks!
Pretty awesome contest, I’ve been reading about these- can’t wait ’til I win! 😉
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Count me in.
Another great giveaway, of soemthing I will need for the new baby. I hope I win….
Parker uses the Born Free. They are amazing. Please enter us in this contest.
I’m hoping that my baby will nurse when he/she arrives, but you never know. It would be wonderful to have a few bottles on hand just in case.
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I just got rid of all our melamine plates and bowls because they always make into the microwave. And now I want to replace my bottle collection to these.
what a great product. count me in!
I would love to try the Adiri set. I nursed my daughter past her second birthday and she never took a bottle but I am definitely needing my four month old son to give me some space already! I’d love to try such an innovative design.
I would love either one.
Thanks for letting us know about this company! I would love either one!
I havent used bottles on my last 2 kids, however, my sister is ttc and will need to pump so I’m going to tell her about this link/website! Thanks for sharing!
The Natural Nurse looks very interesting. I’d like to try it with my next one.
I would love the Adiri bottles!
They both look great! Thanks for the opportunity.
Ooh I have always wanted to try BornFree!! Awesome giveaway!
Please enter me!
Enter me in. Thanks
Have a ton of baby showers coming up- seems everyone is preggie right now! The gift set would be great!
Count me in. this would make the perfect gift to one of the moms in my MOPS group.
I would love to be entered. 😀
I would love these. I have been reading about all this and just recently saw an article about these bottles. We are due in March and would love to win!
Just wanted to say thank you for all the info! I would love to try the Adiri’s with my daughter – she’s mainly breastfed and will take a bottle but not without a fight. I wonder how she would take to those?
The Born Free bottles would make a wonderful gift for my SIL who is expecting in March. 🙂
We would LOVE a set of the born free bottles. Connor is just transitioning from breast to bottle so those would be perfect!
Your button is on my contest blog 🙂
this would be perfect for my baby thats due anyday.
THis looks so amazing! I love when moms get involved and make things better. Please enter me!
I had no idea about Bisphenol-A. That’s so scary that so many companies are using it in baby products! I would love to have the BornFree Gift Set so I can better protect my children. Thanks for a great giveaway and for the valuable information!
I like the idea of giving daddy a chance to bottle feed during the night (if this darn baby ever decides to be born). I’m intrigued by the Adiri bottles.
Both look great, I’d like to try the Andiri I think if I won!
what great items! i hope we win!
I would love the Natural Nurser for my SIL due in June. Thanks!
My breastfed babies have never been able to take to a bottle (not even the touted “Avent” bottles). I would love for #3 to be able to easily switch from breast to bottle and back again with the Natural Nurser!
Oh, I have been drooling over the Soft Landing’s site! I want to try the Andiri bottles, but I’m on the fence, we are close to not needing bottles, and I don’t know when I will have another child. I would love to win them and give them a try.
This is fantastically timely as my daughter, who will be nursing her baby due in Jan, is researching bottles. She would love to try the Adiri Natural Nurser sounds perfect! (in case she needs to pump and do the bottle thing… especially when baby gets teeth. lol. Ouch!)
Thanks!
My cousin is due any day now. This would be great for her!
Good give-a-way! My SIL (a brand new mommy) woul dlove these products!
I would love to try these!
I am due in Feb and these would be great to have!
neat, this would be good for new baby. thanks for the chance.
Hello! Please put my name in the hat for this fantastic offer! Either one would make me a happy camper! Thanks, Cindi
Would love to win some for my friend!
These are great products…make me want to have another=)
great contest! i have not saw these before..i,like you,cringe about the toxin’s we are learning about in our baby products!This is very scary..i have 2 grands that will soon be here as well as a great neice.my kolby ,age 2 ,that i raise.I was horrified to realize sippy cups,toys etc. that are used daily can be poisionous to him!this is just unacceptable to me.i love the idea of The Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle being made from 100% polycarbonate-free materials and also that it warm’s to a child’s cheek, just like a breast during feeding. also the open-mouthed latching ..
these products look great~maybe i can win one for my new grands~
Count me in 🙂 I need new bottles for the baby I start watching in a few weeks.
Count me in!
WOW! Those natural nurser bottles look amazing!!! Sign me up- due in March!
These would be great!
These bottles look great! I wish they’d had them around when my girls were infants! But please count me in! I have a friend who’s due in January and she doesn’t really have the money for alot of stuff! Thanks 🙂
Enter me please!
I am so glad to find there are safer options available now! Count me in!
I would love to give either set to a pregnant friend.
These are fabulous! Please enter me:)
Please enter me! This will make a great shower gift for my sister.
Thanks for sharing this great site with us! What a great contest.
Nice idea! I would love these, but we have sworn off buying anything for a year. I’ll do a link on my blog with a little video of the bebe drinking from her bottle.
They both sound great, but the natural nurser is preferred. But I’d love either. I need to introduce my daughter to a bottle at some point…these look like good ones!
We recently switched to the Adiri Natural Nurser, and my son LOVES them.
what a great product!!!!
count me in.
I’ve read SO many good things about both of these bottles. I would love to win them. Thanks for a great giveaway!
would love it have nothing yet
Please enter me! I’m particularly interested in the Adiri Natural Nurser. A friend’s newborn son was diagnoxed with severe milk allergies. They haven’t been able to convince him a bottle is OK, so mom is limited almost totally to non-processed foods (most foods contain some milk whey, etc).
I am getting ready to have my second child and hated what was available for my first child. I would just love to try these. They look and sound incredible.
My neighbor is due in Jan. I think she’d like the born free.