The Great Green Baby Giveaway
To happily welcome our newly published book and reward those of you who are in the trenches of green parenting, we have yet another green giveaway this week. One reader will win ALL of the quality eco-friendly baby gear listed below! Here’s what you could win this week:
- 1 copy of our book, The Eco-nomical Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways for Parents to Save Money and the Planet. Using the tips we offer in the book, we each saved thousands of dollars in our first year with baby–and we did it by going green!

- An Eco Cradle from Green Lullaby. A $69 value! This ingenious product can be assembled in minutes without tools, is completely fire retardant while remaining non-toxic, and is designed for a real human baby!

- 1 pair of organic cotton tights from hessnatur. This company makes adorable organic garments for baby (and adults!) that are just as fashionable as they are functional.

- 1 Speesees crawl turtle teether. We love the spunk and style Speesees and recommend this organic baby and kids clothing in our book.

- 1 pair of girl baby shoes from Pedoodles, in the style and size of your choice. We used Pedoodles for our own children. Read our old review of them here!

- 1 organic teething toy from Momma’s Baby. Dip it in water and freeze it to soothe your baby’s sore gums. Unlike plastic teethers, this cute little mouse doesn’t contain BPA or other harmful chemicals.

- 1 Fuzzibunz one-size pocket diaper. These fabulous diapers contain a moisture wicking layer between baby’s bottom and an absorbent insert. Plus this one diaper adjusts to fit babies between 7-35 pounds!

- A HappyBaby gift pack, including organic baby food samples, an Eric Carle growth chart from YoBaby, an Infant & Toddler Nutrition guide co-authored by Dr. Sears, and a set of HappyFamily recipes. HappyBaby is the company behind this fabulous organic baby guide, and their organic foods are available in supermarkets everywhere.

- 1 Snugglebottoms w/Velcro diapers (unbleached ‘green’ cotton flannel) in the size of your choice from Baby Bunz & Co. Baby Bunz & Co. is a great online source for cloth diapers–they’ve been selling them since the ’80s!

- 1 Green Dragon Pest Solutions. an eco-friendly product that will hurt household bugs such as roaches and silverflies without harming baby. It comes in a gel so that you can avoid toxic sprays with baby nearby.

Nine Ways to Enter the Giveaway
How do you enter? Guess what? You can enter more than once! Each way listed below gets you one entry. All comments have to be posted BEFORE Tuesday the 30th of March to win.
Remember, leave a separate comment on this post for each entry you want. If applicable, please leave the link to your Facebook/Twitter/Blog in the comment you leave here.
1. Leave us a comment on this post.
2. Email a friend about our book, our blog, or this month’s giveaways.
3. Subscribe to our blog (look right under the search bar) Again, be sure to comment about it below!
4. Join our Facebook fan club
5. Link to this giveaway post on Facebook or Twitter–tell all your friends to stop by!
6. Link to this post on your blog!
7. Add The Eco-nomical Baby Guide to your “to read” shelf on Goodreads
8. Add our blog to your blogroll
9. Go read our post on Five Ways to Score a Free Copy of The Eco-nomical Baby Guide and leave a comment there if you’d like to review our book on your blog. (Make sure to read the post for more details!) Leave a comment here as well to make sure we can keep track of your entries.
***The contest ends on Monday, March 29, 2010***
Winner will be randomly selected.
We will notify the winner via email and will get you in touch with these companies who will ship your products directly to you. Please Note: This contest is open only to U.S. readers.
Have fun everyone!
Out of all those colorful booties, soft blankets, and various contraptions, what baby gift was the most thoughtful or useful? What gifts do you now give expectant families?
This winter I discovered
Some of you talented knitters could probably whip a pair of these up in no time. For the rest of us, you can order
First fold the fabric so that the outside pattern is facing inward.
Then cut two six-inch pieces of holiday ribbon. Lay the pieces on top of each other and sandwich them between the seam toward the top of the bag with the ribbon strings extending inward.
Sew a seam around the three sides of the bag, including the ribbon in the seam. Then turn the bag inside out. Finish off the bag by doing a rolled seam on the top edges to prevent fraying. You’re done!
If you have time and skills you can applique patterns onto the bag front or stitch on decorative ribbons. You can also use iron-on letters to personalize bags for each of your children. (My mom finally gave me mine after I’d had it for my entire childhood.)
People who regularly doze for sizeable chunks have no idea what an uninterrupted snooze can do for a sleep-deprived family in those first few months. It revitalizes body and soul, regenerates our sadly withered coping skills, and helps us see the world, and our baby, in a whole new light. (Think precious bundle instead of ten-pound heartless, sleep-depriving dictator.)
If you’re scrambling to get your holiday shopping done in these last few days before Christmas, you may want to consider a radical idea: A holiday without presents. It may sound dismal at first, but consider that it would also be debt-free, stress-free and waste-free. What would that be like?
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