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The Natural Baby Shop TAKING CARE OF BABY JUST COMES NATURALLY
ince 1996, Angie Bricker has been helping families raise their babies. She created Yellow Brick Road, a children’s consignment store many of us will remember. It began with a vision of a place where moms could shop in a clean, friendly store for quality used products, and grew to offer new items as well. Over the years, Bricker focused more and more on healthful, gentle products, and began Sweet Peas Baby Specialty 10 years later. In 2007, she combined the two stores and created The Natural Baby Shop. She says when she began, “health and environmental issues were just a blip on the radar screen.” She says most parents were not educated to the possible hazards in using second-hand baby items or toxins in plastics. One of those people whose zest for life and passion for her work is written all over her face, Bricker says some current must-have items for families include Ringley Natural Wood and Organic Cotton Teething Ring, reusable diapers, organic skin care products for the whole family, and “great” strollers like the Bugaboo or the Mountain Buggy. Asked how daunting a task it might be for parents to make the switch to more healthful, environmentally friendly products, Bricker grins, “It is quite easy, just come on in and we’ll show you!” While she still offers consignment items, demand for new products has increased. Bricker, a great supporter of other mompreneurs says, “Everyone needs someone to believe in them and give them a start. It gives me great satisfaction when I am able to bring an unknown product made by a local mom and it becomes a must-have product that I can’t keep on the shelves.” The Natural Baby Shop offers everything a family could need for raising young children. “The new generation of parents, in the next few decades, I believe will revolutionize parenting,” she says, “and take it back to a simpler time while pushing it forward into new territory. “There will always be more to learn about how to treat the earth with more care . . . it is important to children because of what we all know and will discover about our world and sustaining it for future generations.”
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The Natural Baby Shop #108-1980 Cooper Road, Kelowna, BC Phone: 250-860-0307 info@thenaturalbabyshop.ca
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