Tag Archives: baby clothes

Household Product Alert–Dryer Sheets

They’re powerful enough to eliminate static cling and can leave a load of laundry smelling like a field of fresh lavender or a mountain breeze, but using dryer sheets to keep your baby’s clothes cuddly soft, could be a potential hazard. The majority of children’s sleepwear is labeled “Flame Retardant”. But ingredients in fabric dryer sheets and other fabric softeners may mask the flame retardancy of 100% polyester sleepwear. For that reason, companies like “Arm and Hammer”, caution consumers about the dangers of using their fabric softener products on flame resistant fabrics. Also, babies are especially sensitive to chemical irritants, … Continue reading →

Dressing Your Baby – It’s Not a Fashion Statement

I know I may offend some moms when I say the following, but I have never understood those parents who feel like they have to dress their baby up for everything. Little baby girls in dresses can have trouble crawling and are very unlikely to stay neat and proper the way they are dressed. Your baby also doesn’t need a shoe for every occasion. In fact, in my baby’s first several months of existence – she thrived quite well in onesies, footie sleepers and t-shirts. I didn’t buy her a pair of shoes until she was over a year old. … Continue reading →

This Little Piggy Went to Market – A Guide to Buying Baby Shoes

Shoes – they’ve been the detriment of many, many pocketbooks throughout the ages. Especially for girls, there are shoes in every color, every style, and every shape imaginable, and the lure often starts with baby shoes! We’ve all seen them, those teeny tiny name-brand sports shoes, beckoning to us, often with a price tag that could feed a family of two for a week. How then, when our tiny tots start standing, do we pick shoes that offer the support needed, while still maintaining our pocketbooks? Here are a few guidelines: Expensive isn’t better – while you do want to … Continue reading →

Soft-Soled shoes – Not Just For Newborns Anymore!

Soft-soled shoes are one of my favorite “inventions” for babies and toddlers. When my oldest son was an infant, they didn’t exist. I kept him in some snap-on slippers for the first two years of his life. Something about big bulky baby shoes seemed counter-intuitive to me. By the time my last baby was born, soft soled shoes were springing up all over the place. Thanks to the internet and entrepreneurial mothers out there, there are now many different styles, prices and sizes of soft-soled shoes to pick from. We used to think that baby’s first shoe needed to have … Continue reading →