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November 14, 2008
NuturePure has done it again! We turned to this established company for a pacifier and they not only gave us what we wanted, but made it a teether as well!
Designed for babies three months and older, this pacifier and teether combination is made completely of soft and nautral food-grade silcone, with no plastic parts or materials of any kind. It’s designed with an orthodontic bulb to provide comfort and promote healthy teeth alignment. Made with air vents, it allows for proper circulation to prevent skin irritation and with a soft, flexible shield it provides comfort during sucking. The innovatively designed grooved handle can be used as a safe, natural teether to soothe your child. We wouldn’t have it in our store if it weren’t BPA free, but this pacifier has no allergens either.
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October 30, 2008
It’s that time again! We are proud to announce our sponsorship of the Eighth semi-annual Great Cloth Diaper Hunt!
Last year I came across a link to the Great Cloth Diaper Hunt while chatting with other moms about cloth diapers. I love scavenger hunts and found myself addicted after I discoverd that first little diaper icon. I have participated in the GCDH two times now and each time my eyes are opened to the wonderful world of work at home moms and natural family living. Not only is the hunt fun with rhymes, riddles and trivia questions (which can easily be Googled if you’re stumped!) but you can bookmark stores that have caught your eye to return to later. Most sponsors have discounts only for participating hunters, many of which run through December and holiday shopping!
How does it work? It’s very simple! Registration began October 15th. Once you register here, you start visiting all the participating sponsor sites and hunt for the Diaper Decisions diaper to earn entries into 65 random prize drawings, including two Grand Prizes and one Ultimate Grand Prize! The hunt starts Saturday, November 1st at 11:00 AM EST!
If you’d like even more details you can visit the Rules and FAQ page at Diaper Decisions.
A little history:
It all began when I complained to my husband one day about the teeth marks scratched into my middle son’s Gerber sippy cup. He made a comment about what our son might have consumed via those marks. I started looking into what sippy cups were made of. I was shocked and suprised and shared what I found with my husband. We then started searching online for stores that had safer alternatives for our boys and didn’t find many at all. We had always considered starting a business that might benefit our children, especially our 10 year old son who was diagnosed with autism back in 2001. And here we are now.
We stock items that are proven to be free of bisphenol A, phthalates and PVC. We continue to add more products for our children that we, as parents, can feel comfortable giving them because we know these items are in their mouths as often, or even more, than their own fingers!
We carry bottles by Adiri, NuturePure and Green to Grow.
Sippy cups and straw bottles by Thermos which use their awesome technology for keeping things cold and safe from bacteria contamination!
Pacifiers and teethers from EcoBaby.
A vibrating massaging teether that does double duty as a steering wheel! 
Sohpie the Giraffe is not only all natural but has been around since the 60’s!
And Boon’s feeding gear is at the front of the pack with their non toxic and modern designs!
We are offering a 10% discount for all GCDH hunters that will last through December. If your order total is $65 or higher, shipping inside the continental USA is free!
Happy hunting!
Tags:BPA Free, Diaper Decisions, Great Cloth Diaper Hunt, Natural Family Living, prizes, scavenger hunt
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October 25, 2008
You probably hesitated when you saw the NuturePure glass bottles we have in our store. Glass is not something I would eagerly give my baby or toddler, either.
Now you can give them glass with no worries. NurturePure has finally released silicone sleeves for their eight ounce glass bottles! Made from a safe, food grade and high quality silicon, your babies NuturePure glass bottle will now bounce, not break, when he tosses them again.
This unique design not only creates an air cushioning landing, but there will be no bottle rolling or skidding off the table. Your child will have a comfortable grip with this cover and thermal insulation as well!
You can now feel comfortable about saying yes to less expensive and BPA free glass bottles for your baby with NuturePure at BPA Free Kids.com.
Tags:Babies, BPA Free, glass bottles, NurturePure, silicone protective sleeves, Toddlers
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May 16, 2008
We are excited to offer the option of getting mini and oblong peronalized labels for your child’s bottles and sippy cups!
Created by Cherry Hill Designs, these labels are made of a thick, waterproof vinyl and really do hold up in the dishwasher!
There are multiple things these could be used for: bottles, sippy cups, lunch boxes, pool and beach toys, swim googles, shoes, sports equipment, cell phones, cameras, CD’s, DVD’s, musical instruments, camping gear, laptops.
There are four designs and colors for both boys and girls. The rectangle labels come in sheets of 20. Fonts and colors as shown.
These oval ones are MINI and are sold in sheets of 60 with the same font and colors as shown below. I’ve enlarged them so you can see how cute they really are!
They will come shipped to you straight from the printer, so if you’ve placed an order for other things besides the labels, expect to receive two packages.
Tags:Babies, Cherry Hill Designs, Children, Personalized labels, sippy cup and bottle name labels, Toddlers, Vinyl waterproof name labels
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May 8, 2008
CHEC’s HealtheHouse is The Resource For Environmental Health Risks Affecting Your Children. They’ve put together a brief summary of why Bisphenol-A, or BPA, should be avoided and in just these few words explain why we at BPAFreeKids.com are doing what we’re doing.
Bisphenol-A is the building block of polycarbonate plastic, a hard plastic used to make numerous consumer products, including most baby bottles and 5-gallon water bottles. Bisphenol-A is also used in epoxy resins, in the plastic lining of some food cans, in some dental sealants, and as an additive in other consumer products.
The chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is ranked as Orange for Warning. We recommend that you avoid exposure.
They go on to say:
Immediate Health Effects
If SWALLOWED, bisphenol-A (BPA) is Very Highly Toxic.
If ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN, bisphenol-A (BPA) is Very Highly Toxic.
If INHALED (SNIFFED OR BREATHED IN), bisphenol-A (BPA) is Highly Toxic.
Longterm or Delayed Health Effects
This chemical It is considered a Unclassifiable Carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or another agency.
Suspected Endocrine Disruptor = May interfere with, mimic or block hormones
And then:
Other
Damage to male reproductive organs in test animals: Male laboratory animals exposed to low levels of bisphenol-A in the womb had enlarged prostate weight as adults, shrunken epididymides (sperm-carrying ducts), and reduced sperm counts.
Early puberty and 20% increase in body weight in female laboratory mice exposed to bisphenol-A in the womb, and increased body weight in mice of both genders exposed as embryos. In mice, exposure to low levels of bisphenol-A has also induced aneuploidy, an error in cell division that causes miscarriages and birth defects, including Down Syndrome, in humans.
For more information, please visit HealtheHouse or CHEC’s homepage.
Tags:Bisphenol-A, BPA, chemical, Children's Health Environment Coalition, Health effects, HealtheHouse, Plastic, toxic
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May 8, 2008
The Catch Bowl by Boon
A Toddler Bowl with Spill Catcher
My youngest son will be a year old next week and he is very interested in eating table food. He reaches for the food on his own and often gets upset if he can’t put it into his own mouth. The Catch Bowl is the perfect dinnerware for him. With a suction cup on the bottom the bowl doesn’t move from the first position I put it in. That means no upside down bowls tossed on the floor! The soft, flexible matching “Catcher” is there to help prevent food from falling from baby’s mouth and getting stuck and squished between tray and belly, and easily bends when bumped by your child.
The baby above is still a little young to use a fork yet, but the one buried in his pasta is the matching Benders Fork and Spoon Set by Boon.
They look unusual at first because this fork and spoon set actually bend at the neck, making them easily positioned in a way that makes it easier for baby to get the food into his mouth. No more spilling before it even reaches their eager tongues. One small adjustment to the right, left, even up or down, will work with your child instead of against them.
Tags:Baby meal time, Boon Benders, Boon Catch Bowl, BPA Free bowl, BPA Free fork and spoon, BPA Free utensils
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May 8, 2008
Perfect for the child who is experienced enough for a cup with no handles, but not quite trustworthy enough to be lid free yet, we now have Foogo brand sippy cups without handles. Still made with the superior technology by Thermos, the Foogo sippy cup is the top rated children’s sippy on the market, according to a study done by Cornell University.
You can expect to find the handle free version available as part of our Transition Kit as soon as our much anticipated arrival of straw bottles come in.
Tags:Bisphenol-A, BPA Free, Cornell University, Foogo, Sippy Cup, Straw Bottle
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May 8, 2008
It’s a smart idea and saves you money when you choose our Foogo Transition Kit. Foogo makes pink and blue sippy cups and straw bottles. We have created Transition Kits that you can mix or match up the colors. I have all boys so just blue around my house! I gave my toddler a blue sippy cup with handles and my older son got a blue straw bottle. The baby is still using his Stage Two Adiri Natural Nurser and a NurturePure glass bottle (to be stocked soon in our store).
All was going well in our world when #2 decided he was a big boy and wanted a “big sippy” (his brother’s blue straw bottle). Unfortunately, all straw bottles are on back order until June 1st, so I wasn’t able to give him his own “big sippy”, but my oldest son has a sweet side and told #2 he could use his straw bottle.
So #2 happily took possession, a complete one-sided ownership, of the blue straw bottle. With him doing that, I decided to introduce the baby to a sippy cup. As hand-me-downs go, the baby got #2’s previously used blue sippy with handles and he eagerly slurped it up, sometimes seeming to drown himself and sometimes emptying it like he hadn’t had anything to drink in days!
Neither the blue nor pink straw bottles are leak proof with the top flipped open. When closed, not a single drop will escape, but a two year old doesn’t always remembe to latch the lid on his appropriated straw bottle when he falls asleep with it in bed. We’ve convinced him to take the blue sippy with him to slumber.
Tags:Baby, Foogo, Sippy Cup, Straw Bottle, toddler
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April 30, 2008
We are trying to leave as small a footprint behind as possible us as we provide other families with BPA Free products for the children in their lives. One of the ways we are doing this is by re-using shipping boxes and packing material. We have asked our family and friends to pass on cardboard boxes in good condition so we can reuse those first. We hope you appreciate our efforts in this area.
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April 19, 2008
I chose to share with you this breaking news from Z Reccomends because they are the ones that did us all a service by putting together their report about BPA Free products; safer ways to service our kids. Their blog is overflowing with information.
Thanks again, guys!
http://zrecs.blogspot.com/
Canadian Health Minister Tony Clement announced yesterday that Canada would ban BPA in baby bottles as well as asking formula makers to reduce leaching from cans, the Globe and Mail reports today. To us, this represents a tough stand on bottles but a fairly soft one on other products which affect infants and young children – sippy cups, utensils, tableware, pacifiers, and teethers – and suggests there will be no firm requirements for eliminating BPA from formula containers or glass baby food jar lids. From the Mail:
Although the government doesn’t expect to formally ban polycarbonate baby bottles for another year, the use of the product is coming to a rapid end in Canada anyway. Throughout the week, retailers across the country took the nearly unprecedented step of stripping their shelves of polycarbonate bottles used by infants and adults in the face of overwhelming consumer rejection of the product.
Canada on its own has never taken an international lead to ban the use of controversial substances. The move against bisphenol A, which is able to mimic the female hormone estrogen, is being compared with decisions made by the United States and other countries more than 30 years ago to curb the use of the insecticide DDT – the first major chemical challenged on public health and environmental grounds. [Link]
Tags:Bisphenol-A, BPA, Canada, Z Reccomends
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