Why Use Baby Carriers and Slings? Why carry your baby? 1. It is as close to being back in the womb as your baby can get. It takes as much as a year after childbirth for newborns to complete the transition to the outside world from inside the womb. 2. It is very important for your baby to hear your mother’s heartbeat, a sound both familiar and comforting. 3. You can have a life! When your baby is in a carrier your hands are free, so you can do other things. It is easier to cook, clean, play with other children and work when your baby is in a carrier. 4. Being carried soothes fussy babies. Nothing soothes a baby like walking around with him in a carrier or sling. 5. Your baby needs to be close to you for his emotional and psychological well being. It teaches him that the world is safe, that you are right there to meet his needs and that he is loved. 6. Babies who are held more cry less, because her needs are met right away and she feels safe and secure. 7. Carrying your baby helps you get in rhythm with your baby. It puts you in harmony with him. Your baby is more likely to sleep when you sleep when he is carried during the day. 8. Carried babies are happier babies. They are happy and full of life and curious about the world around them. 9. A carrier or sling is the optimal learning environment. Can you imagine anything better than exploring the world through the safe arms of your mother? She gets to experience all the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic stimulation that you do! Best of all, she doesn't get over stimulated. You regulate her intake of sensory experience and she can always take a break and just gaze up at your face for comfort and reassurance. 10. Breastfeeding is so easy in a carrier or sling. Breastfeeding in a sling gives your tired arms a break and lets you do other things while nursing.
Why Use Natural Products for Mother and Baby?If you are a pregnant or new mother, you are involved in the beginnings of a journey that will last for the rest of your life. I know you want to be the very best mother you can be to your baby. The pregnancy and the first three years of your baby’s life are the most important years in terms of physical, mental and emotional development. If you can give your baby a very good start, this foundation will serve your baby well for the rest of his or her life.
Why Use Organic Cotton Toys and Wooden Toys?The first three years is so very important for the growth and development of your baby. She/he is growing physically, mentally and emotionally. She/he is learning so much about her/his body, her/his family and the world around her/him.One of the many things she/he is learning to do is grasp and manipulate objects. At first everything she/he is able to grasp will end up in her/his mouth. This is how she/he learns about new objects and about it's purpose in her/his life.As parents it is our responsibility to protect our baby from toxic elements in her/his environment, at least until her/his immune systems are well developed and more able to protect her/him from bacteria or other toxic elements. Since we know everything will go in her/his mouth, why not give your baby an organic cotton toy to suck or teethe on?
Why Use Organic Cotton Baby Clothes and Diapers?
Can you even imagine a world without cotton? It's like imagining life without corn, wheat or rice. Yet beneath cotton's natural fiber lies a long chain of chemically intensive, unnatural processes. To bring this delicate plant to harvest, it is heavily sprayed 8 to 10 times a season in extreme cases-with pesticides so poisonous they gradually render fields barren. And that's just the beginning. To create finished goods, fabrics are often colored with toxic dyes and finished with formaldehyde.
90 million acres are devoted to the production of cotton worldwide, consuming 25% of all pesticides used on our planet. Genetically modified seed accounts for 50% of the cotton grown in the United Sates. We can only speculate about the long-term consequences of genetic engineering. Petroleum based hydrocarbons (chemical fertilizers) are intensively applied to cotton crops to speed up and enhance the plant's growth cycle and productivity. The runoff of these chemicals pollutes our watershed and food chains. Organically grown cotton is not treated with pesticides, herbicides or petroleum based fertilizers, nor does it use genetically engineered seed. In the United States, Egypt, India and other countries, farmers are raising cotton organically, without the use of costly, often ineffective and dangerous chemicals. They are courageously developing alternative sources of the world's favorite natural fiber. Living soil is the basis of the organic farm: free of toxic chemicals for at least three years and enriched by compost and other organic matter. The concept is simple: vigorous plants resist insects, weeds and diseases better than those under stress due to repeated chemical applications.
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