The Eco-nomical Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways for Parents to Save Money and the Planet Reviews

First off you should know that this book offers the BEST advice on green diapering ever. If all you need is info on cloth diapers, I'd still say that this book is 100% worth the price. Chapter 5 covers everything you could hope to know about cloth diapers, greener disposables, diaper services and price break-downs for all of it. Chapter 6 is Cloth Diapering 101 and it’s perfect for someone who wants to make the most of cloth diapering. How to purchase cloth diapers, how to save money on cloth, how to put them on that wriggling baby, diaper reviews, diaper accessories how to wash and more.

This book covers a ton of green baby topics...

• Advice about baby products to skip and which baby products you’ll actually need. Great attention is paid to buying fewer products overall or looking at used products.
• Toxins found in conventional baby products, how to understand green slang, and the most important items to purchase green.
• Green baby showers on a budget.
• Lovely design and a great pleasure to read.
• Some information on breastfeeding, homemade baby food and other green feeding options.
• An excellent chapter on living green with baby when obstacles pop up (and they will). Issues like finding green daycare, single parenting, resistant-to-green spouses and more.
• The book is never preachy but always helpful.

• Parents who are new to green living will find this book invaluable but best of all I think that green parents already heavy into green living will like it too. Normally my biggest complaint with eco-friendly books is that I’ve heard it all before. This book actually offers new information for parents who aren’t brand spanking new to the green scene. Basically, I learned some new facts and for that I was super happy.
  
  Amazingly... This book delivers the goods it promises; book does not boasts money savings to trick you into reading it. Any parent can easily follow the tips in this book and save money while yes, going green. If you want to go green and live thrifty you need this book. In fact this book is so darn thrifty and green that authors actually advocate checking their book out at the library to save both money and trees.

Cons?

• I wish it was printed on recycled paper. Actually though, I spoke with the authors and they had asked their publisher to print on recycled, but business issues popped up. That's too bad, but it's nice to know the authors wanted recycled content too.
• I think the green cleaning information is slim. Green cleaning not only saves you money but it really promotes safe air quality and family health so I expected more information on this.
• The feeding section is not extensive – if you're looking for only green feeding tips I'd suggest Happybaby.

Overall if you're a parent looking to green your baby care this book is worth the cost - or worth checking out at your library. I think it's one of the best green baby minded books I've read in a long while.