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- Megan, selected from Green Options
- August 29, 2009
- 7:24 am
- 14 comments
As of yesterday, I am the mother of a happy, healthy one year old girl named Emerson. In my year of motherhood, I have figured out a few things including what products I absolutely love and want every other mommy to have. We haven’t had to buy much thanks to our generous community of hand-me-downers. When we do buy, we do as much research as possible on function, toxins, and quality (so that we can hand them down someday). The following products are items that meet some eco criteria. All have made life easier, look great in our small space, or are loved by Emerson.
1. Born Free glass bottles
My husband and I are completely freaked out by plastic–even BPA-free plastic–particularly when heating it and using it for our child. We used only Born Free glass bottles for those middle-of-the-night expressed milk daddy feedings (thank goodness we’re not up at night anymore). We heated them in the First Years bottle warmer or in a pan of hot water (we’re freaked out by microwaves too) and had no issues with cracking. As an avid breast feeder, Emerson loved the stern sucking required from the flow-controlled nipple too.
2. The Svan high chair
This product is expensive ($250), but well worth the price given its look, quality, functionality, and long life. The Svan’s flexible design works as baby’s highchair and continuously morphs to fit “baby” through toddlerhood, childhood, and teenage hood. We live in a small space so it is nice to have a compact, nice looking piece of furniture in our kitchen and it’s easy to clean to boot.
3. Sophie the Giraffe
The word is out that Sophie the Giraffe is one of the most loved squeaky, fun teething toys ever. This classic French toy, made in the Alps with non-toxic materials is a happy distraction from shoes, electrical cords, and everything else nasty that baby tends to chew on when teething.
4. Natursutton All-Natural Rubber Orthodontic Pacifier
Luckily Emerson found her thumb early, but every now and then she loved to suck or chew on a pacifier. Again, due to our fears of toxic plastics, phalates, and BPA-full products, we found these fantastic natural rubber pacifiers, and Emerson loved them!
5. The Orbitz toddler car seat and stroller combination
We were given a handed down infant car seat. Given that our baby is huge, and now one year old, we started researching toddler car seat options. The first place we went is healthycar.org to see what the lowest toxin car seats were (toxic off-gassing in a small car compartment is a big problem). The Orbitz was one of two seats with a green rating, meaning it is made with the lowest amount of toxins. Next, we looked at a variety of consumer product ratings around the web and the Orbitz was a five star product from a user perspective on every site. In addition to being comfortable, convertible (it can go backward or forward and lasts up to 50lbs), it is the only toddler car seat I’ve found that fits to a stroller. We’ve always worn Emerson in the Bjorn or Ergo, but the girl is getting heavy and having an easy car seat stroller combo started to make sense. This is another pricey product, but, because of its many qualities, we’re going for it (well, OK. Grammy’s getting it for Emerson’s first birthday).
As a conscious consumer, I am thrilled to find more and more products that combine great design, quality, and eco-characteristics. I’d love to hear from readers what their favorite products are too.
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Those car seat/strollers are awesome!!! I totally wish i had gotten one but im good with what i got too!! :D
Great article, and what an adorable baby!
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These are all great ideas for the new green mom. However, I have one item on your list that I would have to disagree with. That would be your glass bottles. My husband and I used the Dr. Browns bottles and we have loved them. I understand your worries of chemicals harming your child, but glass is very dangerous. A friend of mine had your same concern and used the glass bottles. Her idea was suddenly a bad one when her child fell on his bottle as it burst on the ground. He had to have many surgeries and he still has scars. Thank goodness it did not kill him. I understand you were only giving the bottles to him at night, but I wanted to explain a risk associated with constant use. Especially since children tend to get psychologically attached to their bottle, they may grow to want their bottle at other times. And children grow so fast, before you know it they are on the move and I wouldn't want to worry about them hurting themself with a bottle. In my opinion, I would be much more concerned with using glass products compared to BPA free plastic bottles.
We got the wonderful Tripp Trapp chair for my son when he was ready to join us at the table. It may seem expensive but when you consider that it will grow with your child into adulthood it is well worth the initial cost. It is not a "high chair" as it pulls up to the table and does not have a tray but is much nicer since baby joins you at the table. It easily morphs into a toddler chair as the child grows and then continues to be easily adjustable through youth and now my adult son uses it at his desk. It is wood and easily maintained and is a very nice looking item of furniture in its own right. An investment that we are very glad we made.
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