Keeping Your Home Healthy

As if an answer to my plea for help, the What To Expect Guide To A Healthy Home arrived in the mail last week. This nifty booklet was put together by Heidi Murkoff, the author of What To Expect When You’re Expecting and offers plenty of tips on how to make it through the holidays as well as cold and flu season without getting sick AGAIN.

Does this have my name written all over it or what?? I devoured it cover to cover in no time flat. It’s written in the same friendly, accessible style as the What To Expect books, the author even starts off by reassuring the readers that our homes are probably cleaner than we think. (She obviously hasn’t seen mine lately.)

The booklet covers all the basics of keeping your home clean and healthy as you invite (possibly germ carrying) guests over to visit. It goes through each room and gives tips on how to address the unique problems each one presents. It reinforces many things you already know, but may need to be reminded of, and introduces some new things to consider. For instance: Little J is in the throws of potty training and LOVES to watch as the “fruits of his efforts” are flushed down the toilet. I never considered that tiny droplets of , let’s say, water vapor fly out of the toilet everytime it’s flushed and land on anything nearby. Like the toothbrush on the counter. YUCK! We will be flushing with the lid down from now on.

The second part of the book addresses creating healthy habits for your family (complete with a section on wand washing with some great tips on how to make sure it happens). It addresses everything from your own home to shopping trips (a personal phobia of mine) to daycare/pre-schools. We can’t keep them locked up at home for the whole winter, right?
Interested in more healthy tips? Download your own What To Expect Guide To A Healthy Home booklet right here. If you’re anything like me, every healthy tip helps!!