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Essential Baby Gears You Can’t Live Without and Educational Baby Toys

January 27th, 2010
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Essential Baby Gears You Can't Live Without and Educational Baby Toys

When I have a baby, it seems like every­thing I do, I do it for my baby. I guess this is a nat­ural ten­dency that all the par­ents have. We all want our baby’s life as com­fort­able and safe as pos­si­ble. Below are some very impor­tant baby gears that I am sure most of us can’t live with­out. Many of these baby gears can actu­ally pro­mote health and safety for our babies.

First, a baby car seat is a must. Even if you don’t intend to take your baby out by car. Many hos­pi­tals will actu­ally make sure that you have one before they release the infant and mother. If you don’t have one, some hos­pi­tals will pro­vide a tem­po­rary baby’s car seat for you, but you need to agree with their insur­ance regulations.

One way or another, you will want to carry your baby around when you are tak­ing him or her out­side, but your arms will get tired. So, you need a good baby car­rier; a good back pack or front pack baby car­rier will do won­ders (I pre­fer front pack baby car­rier as I can always keep an eye on my baby). It will free your arms and also great for pro­mot­ing phys­i­cal close­ness and bond­ing between you and your newborn.

How­ever, both back­pack and front pack baby car­rier can get heavy after a while. This is where a baby’s stroller becomes use­ful. A sturdy stroller that comes with some safety fea­tures such as a brak­ing mech­a­nism for hills and near the curb is very use­ful and safe. Also, make sure you get one with an adjustable hood to pro­tect your baby from direct sunlight.

Both at home and away, a good dia­per chang­ing sta­tion will prove to be very con­ve­nient for moms or dads who are car­ing for their babies. A portable one is very handy and will do won­ders dur­ing the spur-of-the-moment that always seem to come at the most incon­ve­nient time.

Lastly, when it comes to baby toys, soft baby toys are always bet­ter as they are free from sharp edges and con­tours. Babies are exploratory by nature, stack­ing toys in the form of alpha­bet, num­ber and pic­ture blocks can help the baby’s devel­op­ing mind learn about shape, vol­ume and other basic skills. Your baby will learn to stack blocks one on top of the other. These toys are safe and nicely rounded and free from sharp edges.

There are a whole range of toys that can give your baby great learn­ing expe­ri­ence and help them learn how to inter­act with their world. For exam­ple, Baby Ein­stein toys offers great inter­ac­tive learn­ing expe­ri­ence. There are vari­ety of toys, books, CDs and DVDs avail­able to help your baby get in touch with the world.

Here are more infor­ma­tion on Baby Ein­stein Toys.

Watch the video related to baby toys

The best­cool, edu­ca­tional baby toys! Learn all about baby toys that help your baby develop hand-eye coor­di­na­tion in this free video clip on baby safety and baby learn­ing toys. Expert: Daniella Buet­tner Bio: Daniella Buet­tner, toy buyer at Right Start, has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in chil­drens goods and ser­vices. Film­maker: Traci Holsey

Help answer the ques­tion about baby toys

What is the best way to san­i­tize baby toys?
my baby has a lot of toys that he keeps chew­ing on, throw­ing on the floor,etc so I want to clean them as often as I can. His plas­tic toys are easy to clean. I just wash with soap and warm water but don’t know how to clean his soft toys that come with a label of sur­face clean­ing only. What is the best way to clean such toys?

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  1. Anonymous Jan 27th, 2010 @ 06:18 | #1
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    NO COMPRENDE

  2. Theodore Satou Jan 27th, 2010 @ 06:35 | #2
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    So you put some­thing in its mouth, it suck it, then it cries?

  3. Dogma (puppy due July 25th) Jan 27th, 2010 @ 07:38 | #3
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    My dog has “HIS” toybox

    My Baby has “HER” toybox

    Toys are kept separate.

    Baby is only allowed to play with her toys.. if she has a dog toy, I remove it from her and give her one of HER toys

    Dog is only allowed to play with his toys.. if he has a baby toy, I remove it and give him one of HIS toys.

    Even­tu­ally the toys will have their indi­vid­ual scent and your dog should be able to rec­og­nize which are his and which belong to the baby.

    Baby toys are also put away when she’s done play­ing.. they are not left lay­ing any­where. Most of her toys are kept in the liv­ing room, which is baby gated off– the dog has lim­ited access to that room.

    The best solu­tion is to just super­vise, and make sure that baby toys are put away when the baby is not play­ing with them. Your child can learn at a young age to keep her toys picked up, or they may become chewed up.

  4. beg82920 Jan 27th, 2010 @ 08:00 | #4
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    !!!! WAIT !!!!! ANSWER #1 IS 100% INCORRECT !!!

    He states

    “Stick with wooden or cloth/plush toys for a baby — that’s one option. ”

    The wooden toys from China are the ones that are painted and have the biggest chance of hav­ing lead based paint (LBP). Cloth/plush items will (can) col­lect lead dust from floors. And then pass it to the kids if they are not cleaned / washed often.

    There was a web site for recalled toys but I can’t find it right now. But even this site may not list all the toys effected with lead. Its a good start but I would test each wooden OR PLASTIC toy I bought. There can be lead in plas­tic or vinyl.

    edit: found the web site… http://www.babycenter.com

    The eas­i­est way to test is with a prod­uct call “Lead Check”. They are small white tubes that deliver a chem­i­cal (sodium rodiz­inate) to the sur­face. If there is leach-able lead it will turn color (pink or red). Call around to your local paint stores to find them. There are many types of these chem­i­cal test kits but my opin­ion is Lead Check is the best / easiest.

    HINT: They cost about $3.00 each BUT !!! (Lead Check hates me to teach this) … There are 5 to 7 drops in each tube. If you use a clean dry cot­ton swab on each item, you can get 5 to 7 tests.

    (no I don’t work for or own stock in this co.) … :)

    For more info plese read http://home.mindspring.com/~wrltc/lswp.pdf A book I wrote for par­ents doing re-modeling or hav­ing it done. And lead issues in gen­eral. It was paid for by a fed/state grant. Which means its your book as much as mine. I am NOT try­ing to sell you any­thing. Edu­ca­tion about this sub­ject is my job.

  5. Theodore Satou Jan 27th, 2010 @ 14:52 | #5
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    I am from Esto­nia and this IS ESTONIAN LANGUAGE!:)

  6. J.M. Jan 28th, 2010 @ 00:30 | #6
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    I used to work in an infant room in a day­care cen­ter and DHS reg­u­la­tions had us spray the toys with diluted bleach…take a clean spray bot­tle and fill it full of water then add one table spoon of bleach to it. Spray the toys over the sink and let air dry. If there are stains on them you are try­ing to remove, you can sim­ply take a lit­tle bit of laun­dry deter­gent and rub it on the stain and then rinse it.

  7. Army Wifee Jan 28th, 2010 @ 00:54 | #7
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    lemon juice or V8

  8. greenarcher Jan 28th, 2010 @ 09:30 | #8
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    toys r us

  9. Theodore Satou Jan 28th, 2010 @ 10:20 | #9
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    jee­jee, i am FINNISH!!!!!

  10. Theodore Satou Jan 28th, 2010 @ 16:33 | #10
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    i no its not Ger­man and its not Eng­lish so wht lan­guage is it

  11. Theodore Satou Jan 28th, 2010 @ 22:57 | #11
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    fukin funny

  12. missy Jan 28th, 2010 @ 23:30 | #12
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    You may be sur­prised how many of those toys can actu­ally sur­vive the washer and some even the dryer. I’ve washed many stuffed toys and they come out of the washer clean and in good shape. Use the gen­tle cycle and air dry them if you’re con­cerned about the heat of dryer. You might try it first with some­thing you’re not really attached to and see how it works for you.

  13. Theodore Satou Jan 29th, 2010 @ 17:59 | #13
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    0:10 , “ree, cloaks!!” ok… ree cloaks…

  14. Theodore Satou Jan 29th, 2010 @ 18:23 | #14
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    It is ESTONIAN not German!

  15. Theodore Satou Jan 30th, 2010 @ 00:38 | #15
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    oh my gosh azim­mafia speak proper eng­lish
    Whats all this ” girlzz deez dayzz ” what is the point in doing that???

  16. Mallory is 13 months old Jan 30th, 2010 @ 02:47 | #16
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    I agree with hot soapy water but you could also use a 50/50 solu­tion of water and per­ox­ide. If you are look­ing for a non toxic/healthy way to clean.

  17. Baba Booey! Jan 30th, 2010 @ 12:51 | #17
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    I love dis­in­fec­tant spray! I think it is awe­some. Obvi­ously you don’t want to give it to your child while it is wet and you just freshly sprayed it, but I use it on my sons toys while he is nap­ping or after he goes to bed and put then run them under hot water and let them dry. It just makes me feel bet­ter. But also hot, soapy water works great too.

  18. Shauna A Jan 30th, 2010 @ 16:52 | #18
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    No, most of the toys you will find at reg­u­lar com­mer­cial toy stores do con­tain ptha­lates. The FDA and other reg­u­la­tory agen­cies do now acknowl­edge any dan­gers in ptha­lates, parabens, diox­ins, SLS, sodium poly­acry­late, etc., so the man­u­fac­tur­ers don’t see a need to change to more expen­sive mate­ri­als. If you want non-toxic toys, shop at nat­ural baby stores. Some good online stores are:

    http://www.cottonbabies.com
    http://www.wilddill.com
    http://www.melissaanddoug.com

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