THE PRODUCT Garden of Life’s Organic Plant Protein. THE GOOD So if you’ve ever had Garden of Life’s very healthy and quite delicious RAW Fit protein powder, you know that while it’s chock-full of incredibly good-for-you ingredients, it’s a bit chalky and grainy going down. But you deal with it because it actually has flavour…
LANA Natural Wear organic loveys #SafeSleep
I’d never heard the term “lovey” before having kids. Enter sleep training with babe No. 1 and introducing a lovey was such a core part of the extra-gentle method (from Good Night, Sleep Tight) that I wore The K Man’s teddy – one of those teddy bear heads with a small blanket for a body…
OM Home’s organic cotton crib sheet = sweet dreams #SafeSleep
Throughout this kids’ safe sleep series, I’ve written a lot about the reasons that organic sleep products can be so beneficial for your child – like eliminating off-gassing – and for the earth, by using products that are plentiful. This week, instead of starting off with an anecdote about something noteworthy from my family life…
aden + anais organic fitted crib sheet #SafeSleep
Although we never registered for baby shower gifts (because [a] I’m not into showers, as I quickly discovered during my wedding shower where I felt supremely awkward; and [b] because I had my first baby at age 33, with a good job, and we didn’t need help buying things to set up our nest), I…
Organic Teething Bunny by Dress Me Up Organic (guest review)
When I’m asked to review something that I can’t test with my own family, I turn to my Facebook page and offer my readers a guest review opportunity. Let these moms and dads help you see if a product’s worth its price tag. Guest reviewers receive the products for free and get to keep them in exchange for their…
Charlie Banana reusable swim diaper – simply the best!
I’ve written before about how much I love reusable swim diapers. We swim a lot, so it started as purely a financial choice. I wasn’t thinking as much four years ago about disposables going into the bin and clogging up landfills. I was thinking of my bank account, which seemed to shrink exponentially with each…
Manduca: German-engineered babywearing
There’s a lot of talk about “overstimulation” when it comes to newborns. But how about our toddlers? After all, all of that moving, running, pointing, screeching, chasing, tickling, bird-watching, grass-rolling, sand-eating toddler mania must get exhausting. And, now, with a nearly a 19 month old on my hands, I’m glad that I can finally understand…