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Parenting used to be simpler. Sure, there have always been emotional struggles and family crises, but the day-to-day logistics of life were quite clear. Here is your layette, here is a crib, babies are breastfed or fed with this bottle with this milk. The choices were simple and unambiguous.

Today, an enormous amount of time (that could be spent actually parenting), is spent wandering the baby product aisles of superstores trying to decide which of the 200 types of bottles available is the best one for your baby. Or which diaper or which pacifier or which bouncy seat or which car seat and on and on and on.

This enormously time consuming task has only become more difficult with the growing awareness that many of the chemicals used as building blocks for these modern conveniences might not be safe for growing babies. Now we have to consider not only whether our baby will latch on to the bottle we selected, but also whether this bottle will leach suspect chemicals into the milk?

And the scientific discourse in the media is of minimal help at all, but most often adding to your confusion and fear. One article says avoid this chemical at all costs and the next one says that the science has been blown out of proportion, that the exposures are so small we don't need to worry. Who do you believe? And if you decide to read the studies yourself, how do you decipher and translate them? It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to raise a child.