5 Phases Bottles Are a Healthy Way to Feed

By Emmi Kern

There are plastic baby bottles, there are glass baby bottles, then there’s 5 Phases. These unique bottles combine the classic benefits of glass bottles with the safety and durability of BPA-free plastic. 5 Phases’ innovative feeding system includes a glass bottle that nestles inside a protective cover. The cover helps keep the glass from breaking and also contains the glass in the event a break should occur.

5 Phases is a baby bottle company founded on the Eastern principle that life is divided into 5 stages, each with its own unique joys and challenges. To be in sync with these phases means better health and increased happiness; to be out of the flow can lead to poor health and emotional distress. 5 Phases founder Christine Barlow chose the name of her company because she embraces this principle in her own life and wants to share her path with others.

Looking at her successful business and thriving family, Barlow is the perfect natural lifestyle mompreneur, but the life she lives today didn’t come easily. Her journey into holistic health practices – and her subsequent launch of the 5 Phases bottle line – was inspired by her experience with a parent’s biggest fear: having a child with serious health problems.

Barlow’s son was diagnosed with a birth defect in the womb and was born 3 months early, weighing only one pound seven ounces. Barlow spent the following months by her son’s side in the NICU where his medical team worked hard to treat the multiple complications he faced. Even after being released at three months old, he suffered frequent breathing problems, allergies, and infections. The thought that her son might never live a normal active life was heartbreaking, and it drove Barlow to research more about his problems and to seek alternative answers.

Eventually, with the help of several holistic-minded doctors and her own relentless perseverance, Barlow was able to find the right combination of chiropractic care, nutrition, and other treatments to relieve her son’s symptoms and give him a higher quality of life. One of the startling facts that Barlow encountered in her research was the fact that BPAs (bisphenol-A) and phthalates can affect a person’s hormonal balance and overall health. That’s why the presence of these chemicals in infant feeding bottles and other drinking containers should be a concern for everyone.

For more information, visit www.5phases.com