Healthy sleep

How environmental toxins and harmful substances effect individuals is a widely discussed topic nowadays. Ecological thinking and the conscious choice of nature-based products without toxins is becoming increasingly important for many families –especially when it comes to our children.

In the beginning babies sleep about 16 to 18 hours per day. Due to this the baby bed is playing an important role when wanting to enable your child to have a healthy start into its first years of living.

By using solid wood (no glued wood) and cotton from certified organic cultivation, the baby bed is certified free from toxic substances and dangerous evaporations.

Allergies

Every third child has an enlarged allergy risk. The second most common allergy right after the pollen allergy is the house-dust allergy, for which mites are responsible that preferably live in the mattress itself. Their excretion can be responsible for excema and asthma. Mites can usually not be removed from within a mattress, while in this case it does not matter whether the mattress is made out of nature-based materials, foam, latex or the like.

In the organic baby bed the child sleeps on a spanned cotton underlay. An advantage of this is that the fabric of this bed can be entirely washed which kills mites to a great extent. Also dirt and the like can be effectively cleaned this way.

Safety

Even though the amount of crib deaths has largely decreased in the past years, this remains to be the most common cause of death of babies in the Western part of the world.

There are numerous theories about the origin of this. Some studies point out that a common fungus can turn certain substances in the mattress into toxic gases. Other studies claim that over-heating or CO2-rebreathing are to be blamed. At this point no commonly accepted cause has been found for crib death of children.

In order to keep the risk for the child as small as possible it is useful to optimize the child's sleeping environment with regards to the assumed risks:

  • By using organic cotton which is permeable to air, the bed is breathable and no CO2- rebreathing takes place.
  • The spanned lie down area is isolated against the cold through the insertion of organic molleton. In the summer this can be removed which diminishes the risk of over-heating.
  • The bed is free from dangerous substances. There is nothing that could convert certain substances into toxic gases.

Please also keep the official advice for preventing crib death in mind.