Dream It / Do It: Eco-Friendly Baby Gear

Lola & James have made a vintage cashmere baby blanket, $298, from recycled cashmere (still as soft), eliminating much of a product's manufacturing waste. It's available in a "boy" and "girl" color palette. For a more straightforward receiving blanket, try Petunia Pickle Bottom's Organic Gift Set, three blankets for $79, available in two sets of graphic prints. And don't forget your organic blanket friend, $18, a security blanket topped with a sweet little rabbit, all in super soft organic cotton.

Giggle offers a set of two organic blankets in its "Better Basics" series for $34. Choose either blue and ivory or pink and ivory. And Eden Home is offering 15% off its Organic Cotton Receiving Blanket by Under the Nile, featuring organic Egyptian cotton in two snappy prints. Now $27.20.

The Oeuf Crib in Walnut, $920.

Hand crafted from solid birch, finished with nontoxic lacquer and featuring medium-density fiberboard made from recovered wood fibers, this is a good-looking place to sleep, inside and out.

City Lights Commuter Crib by Sorelle, $406.

With this piece, you'll get modern design as well as the good-for-the-planet stamp. You won't find solid birch at this price point, but this crib is made from poplar, uses water-based paint and odorless glue and makes use of a reforestation program to gather materials. While perhaps less virtuous in a lineup of nontoxic cribs, IKEA's Leksvik Crib, $159, is made from solid, renewable wood sources (in this case, beech and spruce) and uses "less toxic" glues. In short, non-toxic = more money, less toxic = less money.

Natural Mat Mohair Crib Mattress, $625.

Weaved together from horsehair tail, organic coir and fleecy mohair, this mattress is a combo of the best available natural materials. No chemicals, synthetics or any ingredient that ends in -cide here. If you're worried about a potential mohair allergy, there's the oft-touted Naturepedic 2 in 1 Organic Cotton Ultra Crib Mattress, $399. This one's waterproof (sides too!) and features organic cotton that's unbleached, undyed, un-everything you worry about.

Organic when it comes to mattresses doesn't come cheap. But remember that research has shown some connection between synthetic mattresses and toxins leaching into child's bodies, so if you're going to splurge, this could be the place to do it. Further down the rungs in the pediatrician-endorsed Naturepedic series is the No-Compromise Organic Cotton Classic 150 Crib Mattress, $259.99, which simply features fewer coils. Then there's the Sealy Naturalis Crib Mattress with Organic Cotton, $99.99, though it's unclear what else is in the mattress besides organic cotton. (That preposition "with" makes us skeptical.)