WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

The part they neglect to talk about are moments like these, when you find out you thought you were doing good because mass amounts of society do it TOO. Although it is the worst thing you could possibly have done! You do not think because it is not illegal that it could be harmful to your child. You fall into the drone thinking that EVERYONE else is doing it so it must be okay. I suppose living better than okay should be our goal.

Late night hours between feedings I find myself reading. Yes, I am reading the books I probably should not read. Why do I do this? I know too much about the wrong things. Perhaps the right things, and my thoughts are that later I will thank myself.

The benefits of breastfeeding are suppose to out weigh anything else. My favorite book, the chapter is called Suck it up and do it and Breasts exist for a reason. The chapter I probably could or maybe even should have skipped The companies you trust.

My biggest concern was that Pampers and Huggies are part of this evil empire that misleads consumers just to sell cheaper products. The two companies I hear the most when parents rave about the products they use and love.

SO LISTEN UP! PLEASE IF YOU READ ANYTHING ON THIS BLOG PLEASE FOR ALL PARENTS AND CONSUMERS OF THESE PRODUCTS PLEASE READ THIS:

"Pampers Baby Fresh wipes contain Dimethicone, iodpropynl, butylcarbamate, sodium hydroxymethlglyanante, BIS-PEG, and fragrance.

Babies Grins and Giggles Lavender Baby Wash contain disodium lauroamphodiacetate, cocamidoproply betaine, PEG-80, PEG150 distearate, Quarterim-15, D&C Violet#2, and Red#33.

Johnson and Johnson's Baby Lotion has methylparaben, porpylparaben, butylparaben, BHTZ, fragrance, and RED#33."

My favorite part to hate, Huggies a well-known company markets baby diaper wipes called their 'natural care' line. yet the ingredients consist of "Potassium Laureth phosphate, polysorbate 20, tertrasodium EDTA, DMDM, Hydantinin, and methylparaben."

So your thoughts might be similar to my own: "WHAT? WHO CARES? I don't understand what any of these words mean, so I trust that these are safe since they are being used by the mass public. What else is there?"

The truth: There is nothing natural about anything listed. These ingredients include a "formaldehye-releasing preservative, and chemicals that can cause breast cancer, reduced fertility, pregnancy complications, neurotoxicity, immuntoxicity, organ system toxicity, developmental reproductive toxicity, and irritation to eyes and lungs." (page 248 of Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven - if you do not believe me).

So consider this, I am wiping these ingredient onto skin at least ten times a day wondering why she has a rash or is uncomfortable when I change her diaper. My biggest ache in the very bottom of my soul was I OWN THESE PRODUCTS. I just bought the huge case of 1000 wipes! I used this lotion because it SMELLED good. I immediately ran to Wal-Mart (I know...) to find something else.

I found this product 'parents first choice'. What a joke that was. Organic? They are able to claim their product is ORGANIC because the wipes are made on ORGANIC cotton, yet the ingredients are NO DIFFERENT than the NON-ORGANIC brand. I am talking literally the same list just printed on a different color wrapping, and not much different from Pampers and Huggies. I was horrified. I finally made my way to Babies R Us where I found the product Seventh Generation the least toxic wipes I could find, and I cleared off the shelf. I then splurged on the over priced nontoxic baby wash.

My problem is I of all people I KNOW BETTER! I am kicking myself for falling into the 'disbelief category'. I mean how could I believe that these chemicals are toxic and that our government allows these to be put into our everyday items.

I did believe the note about how these are also found in wide amounts of cosmetics. That was no shock to me. The part that just breaks my heart is all these unsuspecting buyers trying to do what is best for their child buying the expensive brand 'natural care' and little do they know they are poisoning their children.

The difficult part is where do you buy products that do not contain these chemicals? Believe it or not they are EVERYWHERE unless you go all natural and use water. One extreme to another is what we are forced with.

These companies are smooth. They need to make a dollar and for some reason it seems like killing humans is their motive. I find it interesting the more syllables a product contains the cheaper the ingredient seem to be. I mean some of these names do not even sound English. What words in English beside chemical names actually contain the letters 'tylph' in order? what sound does that make? The logic here seems to be that the more prefixes and suffixes added to the base root word is like adding more and more meaning to the word, unfortunately these definitions have more and more TOXIC side effects.

It is the middle of the night and I am tired, yet I am mildly awake in between feedings obsessing about the many chemicals that are lurking in the things I have purchased. I at least can sleep better knowing at night her surroundings are organic.

The thing that also gets my skin all twisted is these companies market the idea that there products are 'eco-friendly' or better for the environment. SO it is okay to poison people, but the environment we need to save. Talk about population control. How can these products be better for the environment if they are TOXIC? Doesn't sound better to me. I am sure that no plant would survive if you rubbed any one of these ingredients all over its skin, so how is that 'eco-friendly'?