| Did you know that babies sleep for about seventy | | | | rashes in adults and children. |
| percent of their first year? If you're a parent, you're | | | | As organic cotton isn't grown with chemical fertilizers, |
| probably aware of this fact, and you're also probably | | | | sprayed with additional chemicals, or coated with |
| aware - even obsessively aware - of everything in | | | | formaldehyde, the organic crib bedding made with |
| your baby's room. Or, are you? Have you ever | | | | cotton eliminates all of these chemicals from a baby's |
| considered how cotton, which makes up the material | | | | environment. However, organic cotton isn't the only |
| for your baby's sheets, clothing, and mattress, is | | | | organic crib bedding available and the expanding |
| grown and made into cloth? | | | | market for organic products includes such options as |
| Cotton sheets are common for both children and | | | | bamboo or wool baby bedding, both of which |
| adults, and cotton makes up most baby bedding | | | | eliminate chemicals from a baby's environment, as |
| products, but how safe is ordinary cotton? Studies | | | | well. |
| have been done to detect how long chemicals used | | | | Bamboo fibers, a material now found in many organic |
| to grow and treat cotton last in the fabric, and | | | | cloths, is another organic material for crib bedding. |
| ordinary cotton, as opposed to chemical-free organic | | | | While pure bamboo is rarer for fabrics, organic |
| cotton fabric, involves several chemicals from the | | | | bamboo is often a mixture of bamboo fibers and |
| time it's grown in a field to when it's made into a | | | | organic cotton - neither of which are treated with |
| fabric. | | | | chemicals in the growth or fabric making processes. |
| As going green in all aspects of living, from organic | | | | Bamboo, regardless of whether it's being used as crib |
| food to hybrid vehicles, has become more popular, | | | | bedding or clothing, can be mixed with rayon and, in |
| what about going green at home with your baby? | | | | this case, the fabric is no longer organic as rayon is |
| One option is organic baby bedding and, out of all the | | | | not a natural fiber. Wool organic baby crib bedding, in |
| options for going green with your baby's room, using | | | | addition, isn't coated with chemicals and, in fact, has |
| organic crib bedding, made from 100-percent organic | | | | natural fire retardant, antimicrobial, and antifungal |
| cotton, is an organic option for making your baby's | | | | properties. |
| room safer. Cotton sheets that aren't organic are | | | | When you're looking for organic products for your |
| coated with formaldehyde to be wrinkle free and are | | | | baby's room to go green, where do you look? Some |
| processed with chemicals that are, essentially, part of | | | | baby retailers specialize in organic sheets and clothing |
| the sheets. When your baby is sleeping for most of | | | | but, aside from going directly to an organic products |
| its first year, it's coming directly in contact with these | | | | retailer, you can see if the baby bedding has Organic |
| chemicals. As the chemicals and concentrations of | | | | Trade Association (OTA) approval. OTA approval is |
| these chemicals aren't regulated, non-organic cotton | | | | listed on the product to indicate that, regardless of |
| in sheets, as well as clothing, can have high amounts | | | | whether the organic baby bedding is made of cotton, |
| of substances that may aggravate allergies and | | | | bamboo, or wool, that no chemicals are involved |
| respiratory functions and lead to headaches and | | | | anywhere in the process. |