What do you do when you are pregnant or seeking to get pregnant about insuring that the environment for the pregnant mom and kid-to-be has a really safe environment? It’s more than just safety measures of baby safe measures, but it’s also about the actual fabrics, furniture, and home products that you use in the house that will impact a mom-to-be on a daily basis along with the baby after it’s born. In other words, what ingredients are in or what are the items made of that you personally use and/or wear or cover furniture or windows etc. in the house?
Did you know that certain fabrics give off fumes? Ditto some types of furniture? Did you know that the residue from certain cleaning products can affect you and your child?
It’s not everyday I find someone in the “green” sector that knows as much as the guest blogger for today. This investigative journalist and documentary producer used her research expertise and found out on her own as she became pregnant how to ensure a safe environment for herself and her two children. Not only that, she wanted to share her findings with others which drove her to create a website so that others could source environmentally safe products for home, mom and baby too!
Thus Non-Toxic Munchkin was born and Aida Garcia-Toledo, the founder and “environmental” consultant, created an amazing blog, website and consulting service that helps you find the way to “detox” your home and provide the cleanest, greenest environment for you and your family. Please welcome Aida Garcia-Toledo and I hope you enjoy this post!!
Non-Toxic Munchkin:
Your hand lotion, body wash, furniture, the tv, your mattress, the paint on your walls, your children’s toys, your nursing pillow, your child’s car seat, your food and food containers; all of these items, and so many more, contain chemicals. Some chemicals are perfectly safe, but many have never been tested for safety, while others that have are already linked to neurological disorders, endocrine problems, cancer, respiratory issues and many other illnesses. When you are exposed to any given chemical on a daily basis, for years (even decades!), there is a potential for it to affect your health. How and where do you start to reduce your chemical exposure when all the products you have depended on for years in your home, are all potentially exposing your family to a harmful cocktail of chemicals?
I, personally, became overwhelmed when I first realized that there were chemicals in everything. Everything. After my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, over 15 years ago, we began researching the links between environmental factors and cancer. I learned that the US government does not regulate the great majority of the chemicals I used everyday. Of the over 85,000 chemicals that can freely be used in the US, only slightly over 200 had ever been tested for safety. What about the other 84,800?! How was it possible, I remember thinking, that the products I trusted and had been using for years did not have to be tested for safety? I had always assumed that, if its available for me to buy and use ( and even use on an infant), it had to be safe… but I was wrong.
Fast forward a couple of years, when I became pregnant and truly obsessed with researching every single thing that could potentially come into contact with my unborn child. Most children today are born pre-polluted with over 200 chemicals in their umbilical cord blood and the effects that these chemicals have on them at such an important developmental period is sometimes apparent at birth, while other times not apparent for years or even decades.
My profession, as an investigative journalist and producer, had instilled in me a keen love of researching and sifting through dense information and making it easy to understand. Slowly, word got out about my research and my friends and other pregnant mothers started asking me for tips. They didn’t have the time or know-how of how to sift through all the information, laws and products, but knew I had already done the legwork and were truly concerned and interested in protecting their own health and that of their family. That is when I realized there was a need for an outlet where people could get advice and learn what, specifically, they were being exposed to every single day in their own routine and home, without getting overwhelmed or wasting a lot of time.
If people are going to change, you have to make change easy. Thus Non-Toxic Munchkin was born: a “one stop shop” where you can learn, and get tips on how to reduce your exposure to chemicals specifically at your home.
IT IS NOT A DIET. IT IS NOT A DETOX. IT IS A NEW WAY OF LIFE.
This is the goal of Non-Toxic Munchkin. To help people transition to a new, healthier, way of life. To educate and help people make changes that are so easy and make so much sense that they become second nature. No stress.
How do we do it? We now offer Non-Toxic Munchkin Home Consulting services where I am able to work personally with each client and address their home and family’s specific needs. I take what can be an overwhelming and time-consuming process and, after thoroughly assessing each room or home’s status quo, tell the clients exactly what they need to do, why it should be done, how to do it and how to prioritize (they can even leave out the ‘why’). All the research is done for the client, and the big and little recommendations are all made – everything from finding the perfect non-toxic hand soap to non-toxic paint options, or water filtration system.
If you need help transitioning to a healthier less toxic life, and live in the Los Angeles area you can contact Non-Toxic Munchkin (www.nontoxicmunchkin,com) and set up your home consultation today!.
Connect with Aida Garcia-Toledo on these social platforms:
Website: www.nontoxicmunchkin.com
Instagram: @nontoxicmunchkin
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nontoxicmunchkin/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/amgarciatoledo/nontoxicmunchkin-com/
I would highly recommend that if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, set up a consultation with Non-Toxic Munchkin. Also if you know someone who is pregnant, this would make a great gift to help that person clean up their environment and ensure a safe and healthy environment. It’s also a smart thing for someone undergoing treatment for a serious illness (chemo/radiation, bone marrow transplant, etc.)
Our deepest appreciation to Aida Garcia-Toledo’s guest post and the time she took to write it!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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This is a great subject that needs more light shed on it. This is the equivalent of the unprocessed food movement for all products. There is so much toxic stuff floating around, and as noted, much not even tested for safety. Just because we can buy something does not mean we should. Awareness is key.