Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet Guide to Natural Baby Care: Nontoxic and Environmentally Friendly Ways to Take Care of Your New Child

by Ikramuddin, Mindy Pennybacker, Various, et al.

Book Overview

Bringing parents up-to-date information on caring for babies naturally, this book offers advice on how to find, purchase, and use environmentally friendly, nontoxic products. It includes hundreds of mail order sources for finding items such as organically grown baby food, unbleached diapers, safe lotions, and nontoxic rugs, wallcoverings, toys and furniture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471293334
• ISBN13: 9780471293330
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great guide for starting your babies life off safely

We are exposed to thousands of chemicals in furniture, clothes, cleaning products, air, food, water. For babies' sensitive, developing bodies these chemicals can pose life long developmental problems and introduce illness and disease. There are many choices you can make as a parent to reduce and eliminate your child's exposure to harmful chemicals and this book shares those. Most are simple choices like choosing non-toxic paints and using natural household cleaners. Others, like paying a little more to buy an organic mattress to avoid the harmful fire retardant chemicals (recently banned in California) on conventional mattresses, may seem harder. But what wouldn't you do to protect the health and well-being of the most precious person in your life? I'd do anything with in my ability. This book has been a constant reference for me since having my baby. It's an invaluable resource. If your pregnant or planning a baby, buy it now.

Great, just lacking some...

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet, presents Guide to Natural Baby Care by Mindy Pennybacker Aisha Ikramuddin. 4 out of 5 Stars!! Overall, I found it to be a fantastic read, enjoyed the layout, and the freedom from seeing naked, or semi naked pregnate ladies. The book mentioned alot of things and this is the book that can go with you during your prengancy and after. It goes over designing a baby room, choosing products for your baby, and how to take care of the baby (i.e. bath, change diaper, etc). I did find it to fall short in the area of "alternative" parenting or "village" parenting wherein the children are encouraged to sleep with the parents, have only breast milk, carrying a baby in a wrap/syrong, raising vegan children, etc etc, but aside from all of this, I'd recommend the book and I would purchase it myself.

Great Book

I am not to good with words but this book is great for anyone that loves their child as well as the environment. It has websites all through the book if you want to buy some eco-friendly products. I really enjoyed this book and have learned alot from it.

What a fantastic resource!

Mothers and Others has 30,000 members, all of whom receive The Green Guide, a monthly newsletter detailing the latest on environmental toxins and information about safer products and practices. The organization was started in 1989 to stop the use of dangerous pesticides and has been actively campaigning ever since with this goal in mind. This must-have book for environmentally and health-conscious families is a collection of information from the newsletters compiled into one incredibly useful volume. This book is not meant to overwhelm you with ideas and tasks to undertake in the name of acquiring a toxin-free household. In fact, you will find so many useful, easy tips that you will wonder why you didn't get started sooner. The information is applicable to the parents of children of all ages, starting with a chapter on pregnancy and preparing your home for the new arrival. In addition to the valuable facts presented in the book, there is an extensive bibliography listing further titles by subject if you are interested in doing even more research. It also lists hundreds of mail order companies and websites. Bonus: readers of the book can call for a free issue of The Green Guide.