A Healthy Home for Baby & Family (download your free guide)

 

Heidi Murkoff, author of What to Expect When You're Expecting with Sharon Mazel has written a great guide titled "What to Expect Guide to a Healthy Home".  It's filled with easy tips to keep your house clean and free of germs.  What a perfect time to start thinking about how to keep germs and bacteria away!

In a season where the cold, flu and sniffles from little noses are rampant this guide gave me some practical ways to make sure I keep my family healthy.  Some of the tips that stood out for me were:

• Sponges and washrags in your kitchen are prone to bacteria so wash them in the dishwasher every night or place them in the microwave for 30 seconds to nuke the germs.  Better yet throw them out every month & replace.
• For baby's bottle and pacifiers you don't need to buy special machinery to sterilize them.  Use the dishwasher or boil them in hot water.
• For your children's stuffed animals you can put them in a ziplock bag and freeze them overnight to kill germs.  Or you can throw washable toys in the washer with hot water & soap every week.
• Wash your hands with soap and water as often as you can - this is the #1 way to stop from spreading the germs and viruses.  "Research shows that simple washing can reduce the number of infections in children under the age of five by more than 50 percent!"
• Bleach and water solution is a great way to disinfect your bathroom and any part of your house.
• When looking for a daycare center ask them how often the kids wash their hands, how often the toys are cleaned, how often the bathroom is cleaned and how many kids are in the daycare at one time.

I found everything in this guide to be really helpful and also reminded me of things I should be doing on a regular basis to keep my family out of the doctor's office.

Heidi's guide is a perfect resource to keep at your finger tips.  Click on this link to download your free copy  What to Expect Guide to a Healthy Home