xp: Dax organic mattress for Arms Reach Co-sleeper?

sarahnwill

I also posted this on the eco-friendly board, but I thought I'd try here as well  

So, we bought the Arms Reach Co-sleeper mini, and a Dax organic mattress (the organic ones that you can buy directly from Arms Reach are on backorder until late Aug and our baby is due in July). Has anyone used the Dax mattress? It doesn't have the hard backing or safety straps like the orginal crappy/toxic one that comes with the sleeper. SO now I have to decide, chemicals vs possible increase in suffocation risk bc it is not the original mattress and seems "fluffier" ?? Anyone have words of advice?

crunchylove77

I ran into the same problem!  I ordered our mattress from Pure Organics, and it too is thicker without the hard backing.  I see it as a good thing.  I don't think (mine at least) is too fluffy, and it still seems firm enough.  I've read enough about the chemicals and SIDS risk to feel that the flame retardants and other nasty chemicals in conventional mattresses aren't worth the risk at all.  The co-sleepers also rated very high for chemicals according to healthystuff.org, so I feel that they would be worse than other mattresses.  Besides, if you're putting baby on his/her back, and switch to crib once they are turning over, you should be fine.

Jgiesbrecht

The Bebe Safe cover seems to be the best way to avoid any toxicity if you are worried about it.

Have a read about it... 

https://www.healthychild.com/healthy-child-blog/prevent-toxic-off-gassing-when-you-cant-afford-to-buy-an-organic-mattress/ 

Jgiesbrecht

https://www.babymattresscovers.com//images/JNEMPAPEROFFWEB7FEB05.pdf

 

and the summary:

https://www.babymattresscovers.com/crib_death_summary.html

  

Jgiesbrecht

I think that it's a highly political subject. Industry and the lobbying efforts of the same are highly influential in terms of what becomes mainstream knowledge. 

Since this one intervention dropped the Maori SIDS rate to zero, I believe that it's significant.  I would love to see this study repeated with low SES american families too.  Would be fascinating if the results could be duplicated and perhaps gets more attention.

I found that doing this was simple and gave me great piece of mind.  

Thanks for the discussion! I appreciate your perspective

Jgiesbrecht

Oh, and that the first link was a pdf article from....

Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (September 2004) 

Jgiesbrecht

I'll try to post again:

https://www.babymattresscovers.com//images/JNEMPAPEROFFWEB7FEB05.pdf 

Jgiesbrecht

not sure why it's not working so I'll separate it...

https://www.babymattresscovers.com//images

/JNEMPAPEROFFWEB7FEB05.pdf 

 

If you want to read it, paste the entire 2 lines above, without spaces into your address bar.

Cheers

Jenn