Archive for the ‘Less toxic’ Category
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
After his first sleeping bag, our boy is trying this week his first real bedsheets. Up until now, he always slept in a sleep sack, this kind of wearable blanket that was made very popular by the research on SIDS (as the baby cannot get entangled - and choke - ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
You should see our son in his brand new sleeping bag! We figured we had to get him a real one for this trip, as it is not supposed to be overly warm: it could go down to 11 at night. MEC makes a nice kid's down sleeping bag, with ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
If you are old enough to read this blog (and your name is not Darren), you probably received a full complement of shots when you were a child. In these days and ages, however, more and more people are questioning the relevance of the current vaccination schedule. Some of our ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I'm not sure if I mentioned Mother-Ease in my post about cloth diapering. But I am starting to think it is the best company ever!
First, they do amazing diapers. Everyone that I know who tried them have rated them as the best diapers ever. They work so much better than ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
My husband is allergic to perfumes. At first, I thought he was exaggerating when he complained about the smell of some laundry detergent or cleaning product. I was so used to those kinds of smells that I thought they were nice. I was almost sad to switch to a scent-free ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I have been delaying writing a follow-up post to "I’m sorry, why is there lead in my dinnerware?" for a while, however after hearing last week a very unsettling news report out of Utah, in which a toddler may have suffered lead poisoning in utero and from breast milk due ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
The number one reason why people don't use cloth diaper is probably that they don't know enough about them and they think they are awfully complicated to use... It sure is the first thing that came to my mind when I first considered diapers. I will address that concern later ...
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