Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care

This book is great. I was already fairly knowledgeable about "green living" but I have really learned a lot from this book. There are things that I want to be more aware of now that I am pregnant. It is expensive to go 100% green, but after reading this book I can focus on the things I feel are most important. For instance, I am willing to invest extra money into a good baby mattress after knowing about all the many different harmful toxins in conventional baby mattresses, and now I know what to look for when looking for a safe baby mattress. It also gives references in each chapter to different websites that has a wide range of baby products, food, diapers, paint, furniture, etc.

This book is a great resource. It details some do's and don'ts of living a green/chemical-free lifestyle. One of my favorite features of the book are the lists of products that the author recommends. Obviously these products aren't the only (or even the best) options all of the time, but for someone just starting out in this lifestyle, the tips are a pointer in the right direction. Also, I liked the fact that the author noted that EACH change makes a difference for the world, and it is not always necessary change EVERYTHING if one is not ready.All of this being said about this book... I also bought The Complete Organic Guide to Pregnancy, and I liked that book a little bit better. Overall I am glad that I bought both because the books complement each other, but if I had to choose one or the other, I would choose The Complete Organic Guide to Pregnancy.

This book is fantastic. Speaking as a physician and a father, I think this is the definitive book out there for raising children in an environmentally sustainable way. I was worried that the book would be preachy or overly aggressive about making all the possible changes. Instead, I found the book to be quite reasonable and also understanding that we might make some changes and not others. I found it easy to read, practical, and inspiring that we can do our part to make the world a better place with some small changes in our choices.

As an expectant parent, I was so happy to read what I can do starting NOW. I already considered myself "green" however this book was filled with resources and ideas that I never thought of before. It's definitely worth reading if you are expecting a child or simply want to live a greener lifestyle. The philosophies in this book reach further than child rearing and are highly valuable. The book is also a quick and easy read with a positive and optimistic tone. Loved it.

Raising Baby Green was easy and quick to read and is a book I will keep around simply for the fact that Dr. Greene has put together an impressive resource guide of websites where one can find lots of information on greening one's life and home. I'm sure this book will be a great reference in the future when I'm looking to buy something, that being said, I had two problems with this book.First, after about the second chapter this book starts to read like an advertisement to buy buy buy! For example, there is repeated references to bringing you own organic cotton sheets to wherever you give birth and using them to replace the sheets at the hospital/birthing center. Now call me pragmatic, but 300 count organic cotton sheets cost between $125-$175 for my bed, thus, these are not the ideal sheets TO GIVE BIRTH ON. They will be ruined and I know when I'm expecting a baby I don't generally have $175 dollars to throw away. Nor does he address the impracticality of packing home sheets covered in birth mess for washing.While Dr. Green does repeatedly say you can do as little or as much greening as you like in your home, he really does seem to push for more. There comes a point when ripping up your current hardwoods floors which are perfectly good to put down new floors made from cork which is a renewable resource stops being green. If you gut your entire house to "remodel green" the question becomes, are you really being green? Or are you just buying into the latest fad and wasting valuable, usable resources?This green baby guide seems to have bought into our consumer culture hook, line and sinker, which is the reason I was going to give it 4 stars, but I dropped that down to 3 stars when I ran into my second problem with this book: Mis-information.On page 248 there is a section titled "How to Drive Green." Two of the suggestions given are changing your air filter (which he says will save you $130 in fuel economy) and filling your tank at night. Now if you google "10 gas saving myths" you will find several articles about, well, gas saving myths and both of these are on there. Neither filling up at night nor changing your air filter really increase you fuel economy.Green goes on further to say that filling up at night, "decreases evaporation during pumping, so anything that escapes won't be cooked in to the ozone." So, those fumes I see/smell when I pump gas at night don't go into the ozone? Because it's night? So . . .where do they go? To the pub for a beer?If Greene has mis-information about fuel economy in his book that can be disputed by a simple google search, it makes me wonder what else he got wrong.

i think i highlighted the whole book:) it is full of information, some are very scary especially since i lve in the middle east and we don;t have many options here to go green. i have to order bpa free baby bottles and chemical free shampoos from amazon and it ends up very expensive, but i think well worth it in the end.its one of those books that you have to keep next to you to study.a great read

The more I read the book, the more I realized this was the wrong book for me. Information in there was not as detailed but more so General and not so well justified. I wouldn't recommend it to a young mother, I would recommend it to a 90-year-old that was raised in a different era and is having a baby

Just as expected!

It wasn't what I expected. I was hoping for more information an extension of the first but this is more like a review of the first with some information on environmental products etc. It is a good read but I felt the first one was more focused on what we put into the body and this one is focused on reviewing the last and more on things etc. I do recommend reading it though.