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No Dead Babies: How to Spot Unsafe Products and Protect Your Family – Podcast Ep 88

Rachel is sharing strategies to easily identify if products are unsafe on Amazon and ways for parents to find peace of mind.

Updated October 4, 2024

by Nina Spears

The Baby Chick® | Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Baby Planner
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We love Amazon and shop on their site frequently, especially since we’ve become parents. However, we’ve learned that not everything listed for sale on Amazon is safe. This is very eye-opening and concerning for consumers, and we had to learn more. We’re chatting with Rachel Johnson Greer about what we need to know to spot unsafe products on Amazon to keep our families safe.

Rachel is the author of No Dead Babies: How Amazon Pursued Profit Above Safety and How to Protect Your Family. She worked in the compliance department at Amazon’s headquarters for over a decade until she was deposed for speaking up for consumers’ safety. A mother herself, Rachel was sickened by the reports of children that lost their lives due to faulty products. She is on a mission to give parents the knowledge they need to keep their families safe.

“If you’re a customer of a publicly-traded company, you are not their priority. You are their inputs so they can maximize shareholder value.” – Rachel

We’re grateful to chat with Rachel today. She’s sharing how your Amazon cart may put you and your family at risk, strategies to quickly and easily identify if a household item or children’s toy is dangerous, and ways for parents to find peace of mind in an often daunting marketplace.

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Nina Spears is The Baby Chick® and the Founder and CEO of Baby Chick®. She began her career supporting families in 2011 after earning her baby planning certification and attending her first births that same year. Since then, she has earned her birth and postpartum doula certifications from DONA International, her childbirth educator certification from ICEA, her perinatal nutrition expert certification through The Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program, and her infant massage instructor certification from Loving Touch, among others.

Early in her career, one of Nina’s birth doula clients affectionately referred to her as “the baby chick — the ‘chick’ who works with moms and babies.” The nickname stuck and later inspired the creation of Baby Chick, which has grown…

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