Natural Nursery Blog

Many newborn babies quickly become attached to a favourite toy or blankie - it can sooth them when they are fractious and help the slip gently into sleep. 

As they become older, the comforter becomes a treasured companion, some thing to help them feel safe in their ever expanding world, a favoured plaything and a learning resource.

Making a beautiful, natural first blankie available to a young baby can help them in so many ways and the benefits of natural fibers are many.

A natural material will soon absorb comforting scents – many new parents sleep with a comforter before giving to a baby so the child will be comforted by the familar smell.

Lambs’ wool is soft and gentle on a baby’s delicate skin and has its own unique feel and texture, something that is often missing from mass-produced baby items.

We are delighted to now be stocking a range of Noonoo comforters and baby toys, made from gentle lambs’ wool, organic cotton and other sustainable fabrics.

The range has been carefully designed to provide simple, soothing comfort for newborns as well as a highly interactive learning process.

Beautiful felted wool, stunning embroideries, careful use of colour and a whole range of tactile experiences in the form of bobbles, stitched lines, loops, pockets and “fingers and toes”, mean the Noonoo range is quite simply the best on the market.

They make a wonderful new baby present and come gift packed in a white box.  You can buy Noonoo toys and comforters from The Natural Nursery webshop.

The UK’s very first Eco Chic Wedding & Home will take place on Sunday 8th of March 2009 in the heart of England.

Set amid the breathtaking splendour of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in leafy Edgbaston, this exclusive wedding and home event will bring together the very best the UK has to offer in green & ethical weddings and living.

http://www.ecochicweddingandhomeshow.co.uk/

Two billion people – a third of humanity – still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change too. Fairtrade is a people’s movement for change that aims to tip the balance of trade in favour of poor producers. We all need Fairtrade more than ever and we all have the power to create positive change for people and planet.

Make it happen. Choose Fairtrade.

Take part in Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 and play your part by joining a powerful global movement for change!

See http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved/fairtrade_fortnight/fairtrade_fortnight_2009/default.aspx for more information, download action guides and go bananas eating fairtrade products.

Children who are breastfed exclusively for the first three months of life score higher on IQ tests at the age of six than other children, according to a study conducted by researchers from McGill University in Canada and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

“Long-term, exclusive breastfeeding appears to improve children’s cognitive development,” lead researcher Michael Kramer said.

From naturalnews.com

Time – 10.30 – 12.30, 14th Feb

Place – St Stephens Church, High Street, Exeter

Come and join us for a cup of coffee, home made cakes and Valentine’s crafts

http://www.exetersteinerschool.com/events.html