Although many of today's car seats are exceptionally safe for little one, you can't always control whether or not you get into a car accident, so you want to keep baby as safe as possible. Your rear-facing seat will prevent the front seats from being
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What do you need to know abour the safe sleep for your children? Here are just a few safe sleep tips from First Candle that you should share with anyone who helps care for your baby:
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Even if you’re not breastfeeding your baby, these products can still be really useful. I used the boppy pillow as a safe place to lay my daughter while I got dressed or brushed my teeth. Another great option was to use this pillow to enhance tummy ti
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Some time between Black Friday, you might find yourself in a big store buying presents. This got us thinking about retailers and a trend we’re seeing. As an organization that’s spent more than two decades working to draw attention to the risks of tox
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Pay attention on baby wears, just say no to sandals, shoes, boots or raingear made entirely or predominantly from rubber- or plastic-like materials. Keep an eye out when shopping for shoes treated with anti-microbial chemicals.
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It is an amazing experience to have baby, memories and a ton of baby stuff! There are strollers, cribs, car seats, playards, playmats, entertainers, carriers and the list goes on and on. It seems like from the time you see those two pink lines on the
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Usually the direct additives should be fed to lab animals for at least 28 days. Of the roughly 1400 direct additives for which we found feeding data, only 852 were fed to lab animals to figure out how much we could eat before getting sick.
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You could just grin and bear it for a few weeks or a few meals, but these are life-long relationships. And these occasions offer unique teachable moments—a chance to talk about concerns well worth sharing with those we love. You may have better luck
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Pregnant women and children; requiring manufacturers to provide health, safety, and use data on chemicals; demonstrating that chemicals in commerce are safe; identifying safer alternatives to toxic chemicals in keeping with the principles of green ch
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A new standard offers voluntary guidelines for manufacturers to follow in creating their crib bumpers and warning labels for these products. It also makes a distinction between hazardous pillow-like crib bumpers and non-hazardous crib bumpers with sp
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Materials like oats and oat extracts are subject to cross-contamination in processing plants where grains with and without gluten often co-mingle. Another issue is the use of pharmacologically active ingredients like pansy and yucca extracts. Pansy c
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Pressed wood products such as particle board, plywood and fiberboard (or MDF) typically contain VOCs as well as formaldehyde in the glues and adhesives used to bond the particles together.” Though hard wood is more expensive, Terri notes it’s usually
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