We have been in need of a new crib mattress. While we are expecting our third baby (and you’d think we already had a crib mattress), we have decided to keep our 2 year old on it in his crib for now. We bought a second hand crib from a neighbor but didn’t want to [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Organic, PBDEs on February 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Environmental Working Group wants to collect 75,000 signatures to show that Americans support the Kid Safe Chemical Act. We don’t think that current chemical legislation is adequate (see my letter) and believe that all chemicals should demonstrate safety before they can be sold. The EWG has already gotten 40,000 signatures in one week. Consider [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Environment on February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
After going through two kids, our cloth diapers are in pretty rough shape. So we are buying a new stash for baby #3. Shopping for cloth diapers in 2010 is so different than in 2005!! I love all the organic cotton options and many diapers are now one-size-fits-most. Unfortunately, prices have gone up too, but [...]
Filed under: Children, Personal Care Products on February 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have read many pregnancy books–the typical week by week guides, natural and organic pregnancy books, books about labor and delivery. None are like Having Faith, written by Sandra Steingraber. When I first got the book from a library in stack of other books I was anxious to read, it went straight to the bottom. [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children, Environment on February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
HealthyChild.org is a great online resource for parents. It’s the website for an organization called Healthy Child, Healthy World and on it you can find great information about creating a greener, safer home and environment for your child. In 2008, the CEO and executive director of the nonprofit wrote a book: Healthy Child, Healthy World. [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children on January 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
Protecting my children from the chemicals and toxins in their environment is the passion that caused me to launch this blog 2.5 years ago. After researching BPA and phthalates and working hard to eliminate them from our home, I decided to start this blog to share what I had learned. Now that it is almost [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Lead, PBDEs, Phthalates on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
I have recommended the book Raising Baby Green on this blog, and now the author, pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, has recently released another similar book called Feeding Baby Green. Even if you’re not pregnant or don’t have babies, this is a fascinating book on food and feeding children. Dr. Greene theorizes that the reason so [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Food and Nutrition, Genetic Modification on December 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Several studies (see video) have found that toxic substances, many of which have been banned for decades, can be found in our bodies. Most saddening to me is that many of these subtances have been found in the blood of umbilical cords of pregnant women, meaning that children are exposed to harmful chemicals before they’re [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children on December 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think it’s great fun to have all my holiday shopping done before December. My husband thinks it’s annoying to be in Christmas mode before Thanksgiving. So if you’re more like my husband than me, don’t keep reading.
I am a sucker for great quality toys for my two boys. I love buying classic, simple toys [...]
Filed under: Children on November 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
The EWG has a great article about cleaning supplies in schools. They have a form letter you can send to your child’s school to encourage the school to look into safer, green certified cleaning supplies. I emailed my son’s preschool to look into this more (something I already did in 2007, but feel the need [...]
Filed under: Children, Cleaning on November 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »