No Flame Retardant

Please leave the toxic flame retardant chemicals off my mattress.  That is where my baby sleeps.
Thanks in advance.  In an article bythe Chicago Tribune:

After years of study, scientists in the U.S. and Europe had reached an alarming conclusion: Flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, build up in blood and breast milk, interfere with natural hormones, trigger reproductive problems and cause developmental and neurological damage.

And...

If adopted, the EPA's proposed rules would be a major step toward eliminating chemicals that doubled in the blood of adults every two to five years between 1970 and 2004 and have shown no signs of declining since then. A typical American baby is born with the highest recorded concentrations of PBDEs among infants in the world.

People ingest PBDEs — which have been widely used in furniture, electronics, textiles and plastics — after the chemicals escape from products and contaminate dust. Levels are especially high among breast-feeding infants and young children who play on the floor and often put things into their mouths.

Yet...

But after promoting the rules as a significant public health achievement, the EPA has delayed making them final amid fierce opposition from influential industries. Trade groups for automakers, military contractors, aerospace companies, appliance manufacturers and clothing companies are fighting behind the scenes in Washington to scrap the rules, postpone when they take effect or rewrite them to allow PBDEs in certain products.

Adding another twist to the debate, the Pentagon also is urging the EPA to back off.

In moving us all into our new house, we decided to make the leap.  We purchased a king size green cotton mattress without the flame retardant from White Lotus Home.  A prescription is required to purchase a mattress without a flame retardant on it.  If you don't have a prescription, they will mix some wool with the cotton to make it flame retardant without using chemicals.  Even though you don't think you're ordering a custom mattress, I am pretty sure each mattress is made to order.  That means it takes 4 to 8 weeks to get your mattress.  In our case, it was 8 weeks.  The mattress is thick, came rolled up like an Ikea mattress, and was shipped special by the store.  It is extra firm, firmer than any other mattress that I've ever had, but it is very comfortable.  The king mattress is 80 x 80 and does fit into the standard king Ikea frame, but Ikea king mattresses are smaller.

And then, we top this baby off with Target's organic cotton sheets.  Hot damn.