Newborns

As moms in this day and age, we are bombarded daily with media about the safety of the things we are eating, using, cleaning with, etc… Studies are popping up constantly linking potential toxins in our foods and products we use daily as being the causes of the rise in cases all sorts of diseases, especially affecting our children. It can become very overwhelming and scary quite frankly…

…Wait, it gets better, or worse really… a recent study conducted by EWG found over 200 common household toxic chemicals from cleaning products and beauty products found in babies placenta at birth. This is scary. So we know to watch what we eat while pregnant, but now it’s even more than that, now it’s also what we use on our bodies and the products we use when we are going through that inevitable nesting thing we do towards the end when we have that overwhelming desire to scrub everything in sight senseless and re-organize all the closets. Our babies are polluted before we even start wiping their bottoms with toxic baby wipes.

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