wee*go Bottle

Glass is back, baby. In the past few generations, glass baby bottles have gone the way of glass milk bottles (and George the milkman) - replaced with plastic. Many parents have concerns about potential chemical leaching from plastic bottles and while safer plastic bottles have arrived on the market (here for example), going back to glass might be the next trend. The wee*go bottle offers a little added protection as well as some color and style.

The wee*go bottle is made from glass, but is protected by a silicone sleeve to minimize worry about breakage. The textured surface also makes gripping the bottle by small hands a bit easier. Both the bottle and sleeve can be boiled or put in the dishwasher.

The wee*go should be available for sale next month with an anticipated pricetag of $18. Check back with the producer, Babylife, for more details about where to purchase one.

(Edited to correct sleeve material from rubber to silicone.)

(via Thingamababy.)

Comments (10)

I wish I could find a glass bottle the same shape as the Avents we've been using since Max was a newborn. The thing with all the glass bottles I've seen on the market is that the nipple is so narrow. The nipples on the Avent bottles are more squat, and allow for a wider latch -- a latch that breastfed babies are used to making while at the breast. I got some of the Evenflo bottles and I noticed a big difference in how wide my son was willing to open his mouth while breastfeeding afterward. I wish Avent would make a glass version of their bottle. Sigh.

Robin, I bet as more parents start using glass, more shapes will be available--don't you think Avent and Dr Brown will want to put out their own glass bottles eventually?
These look great--the addition of the rubber sleeve is a wonderful idea. If we needed bottles, I'd get some of these.

Just a note about Avent though -- their sippy cups are safe (cloudy plastics are ok, and the last one I bought was labelled as such). It is just the clear plastic bottles that are not safe.

It always felt wrong to pump milk and put it in a plastic baby bottle when our own milk came from glass bottles... only at the time, it was almost impossible to track glass baby bottles down. Now that they are popular again, maybe someone will change the shape so that a better nipple can be used.

Dr Brown's glass bottles come out in 2008.

Just a note. As a society, we have been using BPA for 40 years. I only found one study on BPA and chemicals leaching and that was with rats, so it is unclear how it would metabolize in humans. There is definitely a hysteria raging about this issue right now.

you are all crazy. who cares what we put into our bodies, let alone our babies' bodies. they're cute, but eh....

i know the jury's still out on all the bpa stuff, but for exactly that reason i think i'll avoid it. besides sometimes is simply a matter of 'why would you?'. even if it's not necessarily harmful</I> isn't it better to avoid putting any extra chemicals or products in your child's body (or your own)?

I believe the sleeve is silicone, not rubber.

(they corrected me on it when I referred to it as rubber)

Thanks for interest in our WeeGo bottles. The sleeve is made out of silicone (not rubber or plastic), which is non-toxic. Silicone is very expensive to produce, therefore increasing the price of the product. We will be making a 4 oz bottle and shorter 9 oz bottle soon.