El Segundo, CA, May 19, 2012 –(PR.com)– Roozt.com and Rockin’ Baby are proud to announce their new partnership, aimed at furthering the effort to help out mothers and children throughout Haiti. Mothers in the U.S. looking to support this effort need not look far: this partnership has put the stylish Rockin’ Baby slings and pouches up on Roozt.com for sale where every purchase will donate a sling to a mother in need in Haiti.

Roozt.com will serve as a platform to spread the word about the Rockin’ Baby products and mission while providing an outlet for customers to make a simple, streamlined purchase. Rockin’ Baby’s aim is to focus on mother to mother relations- for every sling purchased, another is donated to a mother in need, allowing them to “wear” their newborns and free their hands up to carry food and water. Simultaneously, Rockin’ Baby’s products directly benefit mother to child relations, allowing mothers to breastfeed in a quick and easy manner and increase the mother-child bond.

This partnership is aimed at bridging the gap between mothers in the United States and mothers in Haiti by providing them with a necessary tool to balance daily life with the love and support of that motherhood should bring.

Rockin’ Baby, established in 2002, manufactures and distributes stylish baby slings and pouches for “babywearing,” allowing mothers to protect their children while on the go. For every sling purchased, Rockin’ Baby will donate a new sling to a mother in need in Haiti while educating her on its importance, “Mother-to-Mother.”

Roozt.com is an online marketplace that connects trendsetting, cause-related brands with influential online shoppers. Through the Roozt platform, customers can discover new inspiring brands, engage with their causes, purchase their products, and earn rewards for sharing with friends. “In a phrase, we’re bringin’ sexy back to giving back…”

More info on Roozt and Rockin’ Baby can be found at http://www.roozt.com/Rockin-Baby

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Divya Goel
divya@roozt.com, (310) 640 3700
431 East Grand Ave.
El Segundo, CA 92654

When you are pregnant for the first time, it is so exciting. You start planning the name you will give your babe, the way you will tell your family and friends the happy news and you start making a list of everything you need to get done before the baby arrives.

Top on the list is things that you will need — the “essential products” that come with having a baby. I remember being so stressed as my due date came closer that I had to get everything ready, the perfect crib, the nursery, the toys — all had to be perfect.

Then the baby came, time passed and I had two more children and I realized just what I really needed and what products were a total waste of money. Yes, even many of the “essential” ones — looking back was just a waste of time, money and stress for products we didn’t actually need.

As my husband and I continue trying to conceive our fourth baby and plan all that we need to get ready — we’ve realized don’t need to get anything and we don’t even have any of these “essential” products.

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These two socially conscious brands hope to spread the concept of “babywearing” with the use of slings to help mothers protect their children in Haiti.

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EL SEGUNDO, CA- Roozt.com and Rockin’ Baby are proud to announce their new partnership, aimed at furthering the effort to help out mothers and children throughout Haiti. Mothers in the U.S. looking to support this effort need not look far: this partnership has put the stylish Rockin’ Baby slings and pouches up on Roozt.com for sale where every purchase will donate a sling to a mother in need in Haiti.

Roozt.com will serve as a platform to spread the word about the Rockin’ Baby products and mission while providing an outlet for customers to make a simple, streamlined purchase. Rockin’ Baby’s aim is to focus on mother to mother relations- for every sling purchased, another is donated to a mother in need, allowing them to “wear” their newborns and free their hands up to carry food and water. Simultaneously, Rockin’ Baby’s products directly benefit mother to child relations, allowing mothers to breastfeed in a quick and easy manner and increase the mother-child bond.

This partnership is aimed at bridging the gap between mothers in the United States and mothers in Haiti by providing them with a necessary tool to balance daily life with the love and support of that motherhood should bring.

Rockin’ Baby, established in 2002, manufactures and distributes stylish baby slings and pouches for “babywearing,” allowing mothers to protect their children while on the go. For every sling purchased, Rockin’ Baby will donate a new sling to a mother in need in Haiti while educating her on its importance, “Mother-to-Mother.”

Roozt.com is an online marketplace that connects trendsetting, cause-related brands with influential online shoppers. Through the Roozt platform, customers can discover new inspiring brands, engage with their causes, purchase their products, and earn rewards for sharing with friends. “In a phrase, we’re bringin’ sexy back to giving back…”

More info on Roozt and Rockin’ Baby can be found at http://www.roozt.com/Rockin-Baby

ALAMEDA, CA, May 17, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — In a child’s life, a fifth birthday is a special occasion, full of the wonder and excitement of friends, cake and getting to be a big kid. Wild Dill has its own exciting fifth birthday, which means an extra chance for customers to save on presents and goodies.

Wild Dill of Alameda, California recently marked its fifth year in business, and to celebrate, the company will be offering a 15% percent discount on all purchases of over $5.00 from its line of natural and organic baby products. Visitors to the company’s store online can take advantage of the special offer by using the coupon code: 5year

Founded and run by a Mom who couldn’t find natural or organic baby products online for her first son, the eponymous Dylan, Wild Dill has established itself as a premier source for these products. It’s the one-stop shop for anyone looking for natural baby toys, organic baby clothing, or any other holistic alternatives to traditional children’s care products. Materials used to make the clothing, bedding, or toys include soy fiber, bamboo fabric, organic cotton, and even plastic made from recycled milk jugs.

Why purchase natural or organic baby products? In a word: They promote sustainability. More, in a complex and evolving world, things like fair trade baby products ensure that the workers who make them are paid living wages. Natural baby toys contain a minimal number of toxins and pollutants. Bamboo, surprisingly, might be the world’s ultimate renewable resource– it matures in 3-5 years. By shopping at Wild Dill, you can be sure that you are purchasing a product that is good for the Earth, empowering for the people who made them and safe for your baby – they have earned Green America’s Gold Member Certified Business seal as an environmental and socially responsible business.

Any parent who purchases these products is imbuing their child with a good sense of citizenship, and in a small sense, they’re helping to make the world a better place. That’s not bad for a five-year-old.

About Will Dill — Located in Alameda, California, just across the bay from San Francisco, Wild Dill is a premier online source for natural and organic baby products. It recently celebrated its fifth year in business. To view or purchase its line of products, such as organic baby bedding, visit www.wilddill.com.

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Three and half months pregnant and struggling to squeeze into a corseted McQueen dress, fashion editor Pippa Vosper came to a realisation: while she might be pregnant — Pippa’s “lovely yet enormous” baby boy is due in September — she is unwilling to give up the designer creations that had served her diligently throughout a career in fashion in which she has played assistant to Claudia Schiffer and was resident stylist to American Vogue.

With this longing to remain in close contact with her beloved catwalk creations at the forefront of her mind, Vosper, now a fashion editor at style bible Harper’s Bazaar, dreamt up Maternally Chic — a blog which, she says, “is designed to show fashion-conscious women that expecting a baby need not mean giving up designer pieces”. 

She adds: “When I discovered I was pregnant, I knew I would have to find a new way of wearing fashion, while remaining true to my style of body-con dresses and skinny leather trousers. In fact, I wanted all women to realise the same thing.”

Already a favourite with industry insiders and fashion voyeurs, Maternally Chic is, in essence, a photo-diary of Vosper’s dressing regime and includes daily updates showing Vosper adorned in clothes from every label imaginable — from Givenchy to Balenciaga and from Alaia to Christopher Kane.

Of course, not every pregnant woman has the access — or the budget — required to get their hands on the labels showcased on Maternally Chic but for Notting Hill- based Vosper, the blog is about more than just clothes with four-figure price tags. “I want to use my experience as a stylist to show women that it’s more than possible to dress as they did pre-pregnancy by making a few minor adjustments and balancing their new silhouette with stylish yet comfortable fabrics.” She is also constantly on the hunt for innovative baby products and beauty treatments, both of which she blogs about regularly.

But do pregnant fashion editors never have “bad bump days”? “Of course,” admits Vosper. “There have been occasions where I’ve had to admit defeat and place some of my most treasured dresses into storage. Attempting to zip up my Balenciaga at the four-month mark of pregnancy was nothing short of comical.”

A consumer alert for all parents: Baby products sold in stores today that some experts say are causing infants to die.  TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen goes undercover to find out more.

There’s a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying more and more babies are suffocating while sleeping, and they’re warning parents to keep cribs empty. And that got us thinking about all those fluffy toys, blankets and bumpers you put in your baby’s crib. They look adorable in the store displays, but some experts say infants are dying from them — because companies and stores are putting profit over safety.

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We went on a shopping spree undercover at some of the most popular baby stores in the country selling the must-haves for any new parent. “That bumper is nice and soft,” one salesperson said, indicating a crib accessory.

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But for years, doctors warned soft products can be deadly in cribs for kids under 1. Babies can pull pillows and toys over their faces, cutting off air. Or roll into a crib bumper and suffocate against the side.

Yet the companies continue to make them, and stores continue to push them. “You want soft for your baby,” one salesperson told us.

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Soft and cuddly can cost you dearly. A baby boy named Preston was just 7 weeks old when he suffocated in his crib. The official cause of death: “The face being wedged a crib bumper and mattress.”

“I just sat on my knees, rocking back and forth with my child that was gone,” Preston’s mother, Laura Maxwell, said.

Preston’s parents thought the bumper would actually protect their baby because it was marketed that way, sold in baby stores nationwide: How could it be dangerous? They’re now suing the store and the manufacturer.

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The CDC say that in 2009 alone, 665 babies died from “accidental suffocation of strangulation while in bed.” Now the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a specific warning about crib bumpers — that they can be dangerous and parents should never use them. In Chicago, stores are now banned from selling bumpers, and Maryland may follow suit. Some doctors say that’s just not enough.

Dr. Eileen Tyrala, pediatrician and medical director of Cribs for Kids, said, “The manufacturers should stop making the bumpers, which really have no place in a baby’s crib and no place, therefore, ever.”

So we went straight to the group representing all those companies. “Doctors say they’re dangerous, yet these companies continue to make them and market them,” we said. “The question is: Why?”

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“Parents need to make a decision for themselves what items they would like to use inside their crib,” Linda Woody of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association said. “And crib bumpers do prevent head injures and limb entrapment.”

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“So you’re putting it all on the parents, basically? They’re not the experts.”

“Parents are truly the experts of their child,” Woody said.

“Actually, doctors and pediatricians are the experts,” we said. “And they’re the ones who say that these are unsafe.”

“I also think that parents in concert with their pediatricians and themselves, they know what’s best for their family,” Woody said.

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But experts say it’s hard to know what’s best with the kind of confusing message you get at many stores. When we asked a clerk at Target who handled the baby section and claimed to have had all the training on cribs for crib bumper, no warning at all.

“So that’s good, to have a nice, soft thing to keep the baby safe?” we asked. “Even the newborns?”

“Especially the newborns.”

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At Babies “R” Us, one clerk actually warned us about bumpers: “You shouldn’t use these anymore.” But then another clerk chimed in: Well, maybe they are OK for babies.

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They are common items found in a household with a newborn child – baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups.  Most small children interact with these products every day, but at what risk to their health?

Researchers out of the center for Biobehavioral Health and the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital analyzed the number of child injuries related to these kinds of children’s products.  After examining data collected from a network of over 100 hospitals, they found that between 1991 and 2010, over 45,398 children under the age of three were sent to the emergency room with an injury related to one of these products.

In other words, that’s one child every four hours.

“My co-authors and I realized that there really hadn’t been any research on injuries related to these products even though the majority of kids in the country use them on a daily basis,” Dr. Sarah Keim, the study’s co-author and principal investigator in the Center for Biobehavioral Health at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, told FoxNews.com.  “We wanted to fill that gap in scientific knowledge, because there have been reports in the literature of severe cases of children being burned by overheated bottles and choking on pacifier parts.”

According to Keim and her team, 71 percent of the injuries were to the mouth and about 20 percent were around the head, face or neck.  The biggest culprit was found to be baby bottles, accounting for two-thirds of the injuries reported.  Pacifiers were next, accounting for 20 percent and then sippy cups at 14 percent.

Since these statistics are only related to emergency room visits, Keim said it’s likely there are even more injuries that parents are treating themselves and not reporting.

“We think these injuries are likely occurring because children are walking or running with these products in their mouth,” said Keim.  “Two-thirds of injuries were to children who were 1-year-old.  That’s really the age when kids are starting to become mobile, so they’re pretty unsteady on their feet.  This may explain why about 86 percent of the injuries were falls.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) already have existing recommendations for the use of these items, which the researchers believe parents should follow more closely.

“Children use a pacifier up to 6 months of age to reduce sudden infant death syndrome, but there’s a little bit of research that some children may get more ear infections when using a pacifier,” said Keim.  “So parents may want to help children give up a pacifier after 6 months and when they start walking.”

Also, in an attempt to avoid mouth or dental injuries, Keim said parents should follow the AAPD guidelines, which suggest children should transition to adult, lidless cups when they are a year old  She also noted it’s important that parents encourage their children to sit down when using these items to avoid falling and hurting themselves.

Keim and her team hope that their findings will help spread awareness and educate parents about the AAP and AAPD guidelines  and hopefully prevent more kids from going to the hospital.

“I’m sure there are committees about recommendations for these products,” Keim said.  “It’s too early to know whether it warrants a revision of these recommendations for any reason.  The existing recommendations do pretty well already and may help prevent injury in the future.”