Eco Babies Wear Green*

Categories: Parenting & Families

People often say when a baby enters your life it creates an enormous number of unexpected changes. What they don’t mention is that along with the little one (or little ones in my case) comes a whole new category of stuff to fill every corner, closet, and available floor space in your home-- not only the obvious large items like furniture and diapers, but also a slew of items you never heard of before that are soon to be essential to daily life. Who knew my first floor could pass itself off as a Babies R' Us annex??

Add to it our attempt to green our lives and suddenly my husband and I were overwhelmed with articles on everything from cloth diapers to organic baby food and fair-trade clothing… Luckily I also stumbled onto a few great books with easy and economical things you can do to raise a green family

Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care

In this second volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care environmental activist and children's advocate Deirdre Imus addresses specific issues faced by children in every age group -- from infants to adolescents and beyond.

With contributions from environmental science and public-health experts such as Dr. Phil Landrigan, Dr. Harvey Karp and Dr. Alan Greene, as well as many celebrity supporters including Gwyneth Paltrow, Brooke Shields, Tobey Maguire, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Williams, and Tom Hanks, Healthy Child Healthy World is filled with easy steps and simple solutions to improve family living without wreaking havoc on schedules or budgets, this book includes inspiring ideas for safe, eco-friendly cleaning methods, choosing healthier food, pet and garden care, nursery and home building materials, plus extensive tips for energy saving and family fun.

Green Babies Sage Moms: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Baby

Author Lynda Fassa, founder of Green Babies organic clothing, offers a guide for new mothers in raising a "green" family and includes information on  ways to get the house ready for the baby, baby gear-from clothes to crib mattresses, Organic recipes for health-conscious breastfeeding moms, the diaper dilemma: wash vs. toss, and much more.

In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care-from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate Jeanette Pavini includes information for making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby's delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products.

*The title of this posting comes from an adorable board book I discovered in The Children’s Learning Center last week, Eco Babies Wear Green by Michelle Sinclair Colman