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Wow I've never heard of this! We haven't bought our mattress yet so I guess we still have a window.. although I wasn't planning on buying an organic mattress.

@loveisstrange: WHAT?! Too much rain?? That's the weirdest thing I've heard in awhile!

@loveisstrange: Yeep. Agreed.

None of us slept on organic mattresses (I bet) and we turned out just fine.

I opened DDs crib mattress and let it air out for like 2 months before she arrived

Er, we ended up bedsharing so she hasn't actually used it yet. Oh well.

Yes, I've heard about it. No, it wasn't a priority to spend that much extra money on an organic mattress- we got a good deal on a regular mattress when we bought the crib.

@mrskc: ditto

I got the naturpedic off amazon; it makes sense to me that the fewer chemicals the better. I also avoid particleboard furniture and VOC paint, etc but still have some nylon rugs and conventional sofas. Win some lose some.

@loveisstrange: Hahaha thank you for that! Yes, if we worried about everything every study out there said moms should worry about...well, let's just say that I worry enough without doing that!

This was really never even on my radar, but I just now googled it and read through some articles - honestly, it all looks pretty suspicious to me. It looks like pretty much one group in NY released a study about how seventy-something percent of crib mattresses have 'toxic chemicals.' I was curious as to what exactly they mean by toxic chemicals, and apparently any crib mattress that contained allergens or 'chemicals of concern.' Okay, what is a chemical of concern and why are we assuming it is toxic. I then discovered that according to this group, vinyl is toxic and can cause cancer and development issues. And some kinds of foam have VOCs that can cause cancer, so apparantely mattresses with foam are typically toxic. And any that use latex are bad too, because some latex might have an allergen that might cause anaphylaptic shock in some people. That's a whole lot of 'might/may cause' and 'some people' to decide that they are all bad and toxic.

Oh, and also, a ton of the mattress companies didn't respond to their request to give information on their mattress materials, so they just assumed that those companies use toxic chemicals and included them in the seventy-something percent.

I'm trying to be nice here because I understand we all want to be safe...but honestly I think this is pretty suspect. I hate it when people are just giving parents another reason to be paranoid and fear-mongering about cancer in children to get parents to spend more $$$ on products that MIGHT be better, despite a whole lot of assumptions and lack of clear knowledge (they even admit that they don't know what most of these chemicals do...they just might be harmful) going on here.

@wonderstruck: I personally was worried about flame retardants that are often sprayed on mattresses (BFR's - tons of articles but here is one http://www.nachi.org/brominated-fire-retardant-dangers.htm) and also PVC (http://www.healthybuilding.net/pvc/).

I found that the organic bedding was literally not a dollar more expensive than non organic brands we would have purchased. Same with the mattress. The only more expensive item was the changing pad and to be honest it is super sturdy and I am hoping will last through two kids!