Manduca Soft Structure Baby Carrier has arrived

Voted “Best Buy” by Mother&Baby magazine when tested against other leading baby carriers and slings (April/May 2010). The Manduca Soft Structured Baby Carrier (SSC) is the bees knees of baby carrying.

Baby carrying is just the best way to get from A to B and around the house again!

Damien’s Celery, Tomato & Ditalini (small pasta) soup

Here’s a cold cure, that doesn’t contain garlic. This is a delicious soup that brings back lovely memories of weekends away with wonderful people. Recipe is for a single serve for a family of 4, next time I cook it I will double the ingredients.

2 tbs Olive Oil
1 large onion
2 celery sticks
3 vine ripened tomatoes
1.5l chicken stock (is use Massel brand “chicken” - vegan - stock)
1/2 cup Ditalini - or any other small soup pasta
2 tbs chopped parsley

Cook off onion & celery in olive oil
Skin and deseed tomatoes (this step is worth it, I cut a cross at the non stalk end and blanch in boiling water for 1 min. to loosen the skins
Add stock & tomatoes to celery & onions and bring to the boi
Add pasta, cook til al dente
Serve with pepper & salt and parsley

We love ours with warmed crusty olive sourdough bread and butter. You could always add some dried chili to clear out the sinuses

Webiste update finally happening

We are doing some update maintenance to our site. This work is long overdue but has been put off due to a third party’s timeline. I’ve decided that we’ll just get a move on and do it ourselves! So bear with me while I make the ecobabe website a better place to shop for your chemical-free products for baby, family and home.

Li’L Ludy Swim (aqua) nappies

There comes a time when every little girl is in need of a good swim nappy. A gorgeous piece of swimwear to protect the pool and her friends from mishaps.

Introducing these gorgeous, Australian made - sweatshop free, Italian lycra aqua nappies. Complete with a waterproof lining and a ‘poo catcher’ gusset. What princess could bare to be without a Li’l Ludy swim nappy. There’s nothing nasty or throwaway about the Li’l Ludy swim nappy the nappies have been cleverly designed to include a snap and tie closing side to allow for easy removal in case of solids (aka poo in the nappy), you simply drop the poo into the toilet, wash/rinse the nappy and you’re off again.

I don’t know about your family, but we swim all year round.

And like the Envirosax, stocks are limited, what we have is all there is

We swim all year around, swimming lessons are very high on our agenda. Plus I’m already planning a winter break somewhere warm and breezy and a million miles away from school runs, childcare, swimming lessons, ballet lessons, garbage night and work.

Brand spanking new Envirosax in store

Introducing the new Oasis, Origami and Midnight Safari ranges of Envirosax shopping bags. If you don’t already own a set of these super-useful, and super-cool shopping bags, then now is the time to hop to it. We have limited stock of each design and even Envirosax themselves have sold out of some of these designs, so hurry along.

The Oasis series

Envirosax make great gifts for Mother’s Day or you could keep a pouch in the present cupboard, they make a great little gift on their own or can be used as creative gift wrap that the recipient can re-use and re-use.  I recently gave a very good friend a copy of Maggie Beer’s wonderful cookbook Maggie’s Harvest wrapped up in an Envirosax, I think the recipient was just as thrilled with the Envirosax as she was with the cookbook.

The Origami Series

The Midnight Safari Series

Be warned, stocks are limited and they will sell out fast.

Buy 1 Innate bottle & receive a free travel pack of WotNot wipes

We are giving away a free packet of WotNot travel wipes, in a hard reusable case, with each Innate bottle purchased at ecobabe. Stocks are limited so get in quick for your free travel case of wipes

Pre and Post Natal yoga

Here is the website of my yoga teacher Ana, Bliss Baby she is a wonderful pre and post natal yoga teacher located in Byron Bay on the beautiful NSW Far North Coast. How I wish I was there right now.

I attended pre and post natal yoga classes with Ana and her colleague Lee during my pregnancies and post natal period (and in between children as well). I find it hard to describe how much joy and physical and mental benefit I found from attending Ana’s classes. Ana I wish we lived closer so I could attend one of your wonderful classes tomorrow morning.

Ana also teacher Pre and Post Natal Yoga teacher training, so if you’re an aspiring yoga teacher check out Ana’s classes http://www.anadavis.com/

New in store: Uimi knits

I am so in love with these beautiful knitted blankets, booties, bonnets and caps from the lovely people at Uimi. All pieces are knit in Australia and are made with love, so much love that you can feel it in each of the pieces. I was lucky enough to snap up a Uimi scarf for myself, I can’t wait for the cooler weather so that I can start to wear it.

Tread Lightly, Parent Gently

What is ecobabe about? We are a webstore, with a focus on products that will assist families to tread lightly upon our planet and to parent gently. Our approach is to bring a great range of chemical free products to as many households as we can. Why? Because we believe that every child deserves to start life as free of synthetic chemicals as possible.

My parenting philosophy is to tread gently in everything that we do as our footprints leave lasting effects upon the planet, upon the people we interact with and most importantly upon the special little people we have been given to care for: our babies.

So come and have a look at the wonderful array of products that we have to support parents to tread lightly and parent gently.

Namaste

Eenee Compostable Nappy, 100% biodegradable disposable nappy

Yes, you heard it here, Eenee have designed a 100% biodegradable and commercially compostable disposable nappy.

WOOHOO

Cue, thunderous applause.

The Eenee Compostable nappy is a mavelous invention and solves so many problems surrounding the use and disposal of single use (disposable) nappies.

This is a two part nappy: the nappy itself is 100% biodegradable and compostable and the reusable gripper belt is re-used many many many times.

Pop on over to ecobabe to purchase your sample pac - we are absolutely thrilled with the performance of this nappy