You know all those great kitchen habits you have read about and considered enacting for years? The birth of your baby is a great time to put them in action. Your first move, if you haven’t done so already, should be to throw away your sponge! It is the easiest place to grow bacteria in your kitchen. Use instead rags or old cotton diapers and label them with their intended use: BABY FACE, COUNTERS, DISHES, APPLIANCES, etc. A towel for CLEAN THINGS can help you avoid cross-contaminations. You’ll need to convince your spouse and anybody else in your kitchen to go along with your new regime and not interchange the rags. Color-coding can work well if you have older children who can’t yet read. If you have paper towels in your kitchen, use the non-chlorine-bleached, recycled paper ones.
For spills, have handy a spray bottle of non-toxic kitchen cleaner. Vinegar mixed with lemon juice works well on counter-tops; avoid chlorine bleach, which is highly toxic. Meat-preparation areas should always be washed with hot soapy water. Remind everyone to wash their hands regularly with warm water and soap and dry them on a clean towel, both before cooking and after handling food.
If your baby is spending a lot of time on your kitchen floor, make sure the soap you are using for mopping is benign. If it’s less than totally pure, wipe the floor with a damp rag after you mop.
Finally, remember to clean your kitchen garbage container regularly with a non-toxic kitchen spray or in a bathtub with hot soapy water. By the time your baby is a year old, you will want to keep the container latched.
Just some advice I thought and would like to share with you.