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Archive for March, 2009
The Organic Craze
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The baby industry thrives on the ‘guilt syndrome’ 
Making parents feel guilty if they don’t buy top of the line stuff for them. The other thing its amazingly cashed in on is the organic craze. I never bought into this organic phenomenon really. And now while shopping for baby stuff, its amazing what they have come out with. Organic clothes, burpcloths, even mattresses!!! The question is – how long will you protect the child? How will you build their immunity? They are going to grow into a world of normal food at school and outside. pollutants, not to forget that trips to India will surely ‘ need to have’ them develop a strong immune system.
It’s a hard thing to resist though. Peer pressure and the ‘guilt syndrome’ did make me go organic to some extent, but I refuse to let it too much into the baby’s life. I don’t want a baby that’s going to fall sick every time he makes a trip to India or gets exposed to some dust. At the same time I don’t want to expose him to toxins that are unnecessary. Trying to find a middle ground here, and hopefully it will be beneficial for him in the long run!
How hard it is to find baby room decor?
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The answer is ‘quite a bit’. You have extremely few stores to choose from, and if you are doing the shopping at the last minute like I did, chances are that you will not be very patient while researching.
The few standard stores to look at decor for is Babies R Us, Pottery Barn, Walmart etc. I discovered and liked Land of Nod, that has some unique stuff, Gap Baby Home , Target (which has some very affordable cute baby stuff) The best route I felt was to go online. It doesn’t require you to walk around in the store and waste your energy (which you don’t have much of and also because the options are many more.
I tried hard to like Pottery Barn but unfortunately couldn’t. While all those around me raved about stuff at Pottery Barn, turns out that I have not bought a single piece from there!! I guess to each his own.
The nursery is not complete yet, but I think it wil be an evolving thing. And we’ll keep changing as baby grows older!!
