The American Academy of Pediatrics just announced new sleep recommendations in efforts to save babies from dying of SIDS, yet the real dangers still haven’t been addressed. Skin to Skin and Co-Sleeping I applaud the AAP for including new evidence that supports skin-to-skin care for newborn infants. The addition of suggesting that a baby should sleep…
Not All Organic Mattresses Are Created Equal
What to Know Before Buying an Organic Mattress I’ve been doing a lot of research into mattresses lately, and the one thing I have come to learn is that not all organic mattresses are the same! I became educated about the chemical flame retardants used in mattresses 11 years ago, when shopping around for a…
Your Mattress Matters
Know What You Are Sleeping On You spend many of your waking hours each day making sure that you keep your family safe from harmful chemicals in your immediate environment, be it in cleaning products, on food, or in the air that you breathe. Yet, many people never stop to think about the ones that…
"We are what we Eat" – A fetus is what his/her mother eats, breathes and does!
After recently hearing that babies are born with 200-300 toxins in their cord blood, I felt sad! Then I wondered why and what we can do to help bring that number down, as it should be at zero! The statistics are frightening, as I found from Sabine Vollmer in “Science in the Triangle” : “The…