Why Use Organic Cotton Toys and Wooden Toys?

The first three years is so very important for the growth and development of your baby. She is growing physically, mentally and emotionally. She is learning so much about her body, her family and the world around her.

On of the many things she is learning to do is to grasp and manipulate objects. At first everything she is able to grasp will end up in her mouth. This is how she learns about new objects and about its purpose in her life.

As parents it is our responsibility to protect our baby from toxic elements in his environment, at least until his immune systems are well developed and more able to protect him from bacteria or other toxic elements. Since we know everything will go in his mouth, why not give your baby an organic cotton toy to suck or teethe on?

Non-organic cotton is heavily sprayed - 8 to 10 times a season in extreme cases - with pesticides so poisonous they gradually render fields barren. And that's just the beginning. To create finished goods, fabrics are often colored with toxic dyes and finished with formaldehyde.

Babynut offers organic cotton toys for your baby made by Under the Nile, which uses 100% certified organic Egyptian cotton and non-toxic dyes. You can be assured that absolutely no pesticides or chemicals have been used through the entire production process. Under the Nile organic cotton toys not only look good and feel good, they are good for your baby.

At Babynut we also offer a wide variety of wooden toys and puzzles for your baby. Wood is another natural product, which does not break into sharp pieces like plastic can. Wood does not emit harmful gasses or off-gassing - like plastic toys do, either. Wood feels good in the hand and lasts and lasts, often from generation to generation. We sell Melissa and Doug wooden toys and puzzles, who specialize in premium quality, hand crafted simple wooden toys, made from select quality hardwoods and finished with colorful, non-toxic dyes.

Melissa and Doug has recently designed a new line of shake, rattle and roll First Play baby and toddler educational wooden toys, which Babynut is now carrying. These toys promote sensory development with satisfying sounds, eye-catching colors, smooth-edged shapes and interactive motion. My grandchildren play for hours with their Melissa and Doug wooden toys and do not seem to miss the bells and whistles a battery powered plastic toy offers. To me it seems as if their own imagination is more engaged as they play with their wooden puzzles, blocks, trains and food sets.

As your baby grows older, she will be more susceptible to peer pressure and advertising onslaughts on TV. She will start asking for whatever she sees on the TV as a desirable toy. You will have less influence on what she plays with and what she desires. So take advantage of the first three years, and provide her with the sorts of toys you want her to play with. Oh, and by the way, you will enjoy these classic and new wooden toys right along with your baby or toddler!