Oct
01
Teething Rings Not Made In China, Any Suggestions?
I make sure I don’t buy anything that may end up in my baby’s mouth from China because of the lead paint found in Chinese products lately. Every teething ring I’ve come across has a cartoon painted on it and they’re from China. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I had the same concerns.
What worked for my daughter, except it isn’t a teething ring, was just chewing on a cold damp wash cloth. She LOVED it! And its cheap…w/o the risk of lead paint.
Actually they have a net thing at babies r us and many moms put frozen fruit into the nets and it helps the baby teeth.http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp… This is the item. Also read the ratings and feedback. Hope this helps!
A wooden teether: http://www.novanatural.com/s.nl/it.A/id.…
i had the same concern, espeically with all the toys that are being recalled with lead poisening…a friend of mine suggested putting a bagel in the freezer until its good and hard and then letting your baby gum it, its cold, has a taste, and until they have teeth, tehy wont be able to bite pieces off. i tried it with my son nad he LOVED it!
You can make your own out of leather or wood. Also you can, in fact, make plastic from cow’s milk (and I would have to assume breastmilk) however homemade plastic doesn’t last forever.
http://nobel.scas.bcit.ca/resource/plast…
Silver is a traditional material for teething rings and it is antimicrobial.
Another thing some people do is dry the umbilical cord in a ring and use that *lol* Its a bit late now thought
Procedure to make plastic from milk
What You Need
* 1 cup skim milk
* a jar
* Small saucepan
* Dropper
* Spoon
* White vinegar
What to Do
Pour the milk into a jar. Place the jar in a saucepan filled with water. Warm up the milk. Add vinegar dropwise, and continue heating, and stirring frequently. You will need approximately 10 mL of vinegar. Do not let the milk boil. You will see tiny lumps (curds) forming. Continue adding the vinegar until the milk turns to a clear liquid (whey). The curds should form a glob at the bottom of the liquid. Slowly pour off the liquid from the jar into the sink.
The curds will form a yellowish glob at the bottom of a clear liquid. The glob is actually fat, minerals, and the protein casein. Pour out the liquid, remove the rubbery yellow glob from the jar, wash the glob with water, and knead it until it attains the consistency of dough.
Mold the plastic into any shape you wish. If you wish to make a pendant for a necklace, use a nail to poke a hole in the plastic and let it dry overnight. Once it is sufficiently dried, use metallic gel pens to decorate it in your own design.
What Happens
The casein from the milk hardens into plastic that can be painted with acrylic paints.
Why It Works
The combination of heat and acetic acid precipitates the casein, an ingredient used to make plastic, from the milk.http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/199…
Precipitated casein, when dried, is pretty tough stuff. That is what I’m
guessing your “plastic” is.
An example of such an edible plastic is Parmesan cheese. Take a look at a
block, not the grated stuff. Cheese is made from precipitated casein that
has first been snipped by an enzyme called rennet.
Casein is also used to make casein glue and “milk paint”, a traditional but
durable mix of milk and lime.
Why didn’t the goat milk separate and make plastic?
Well, I don’t know for sure.
I suspect the amount of vinegar was too little to precipitate the goat’s
milk. More should have worked. However, there is the possibility that the
goats milk casein had already been partially broken down by heating or
proteolysis and thus, was small enough that it would not precipitate.
There are plenty around! What i found the most useful is this site, which has over 1000 American and European toys for babies, toddlers, and kids! here it is:http://www.oompa.com/baby-toys/category/…
i hope you find something worth buying!
http://www.oompa.com/
i got all the toys from here, they organize them based on where they are made- and list where every toy part was made and where.
Damp cloth good idea, also try a frozen waffle