Touched by Nature
Touched by Nature organic cotton, made to go on one-handed
Every piece here opens where you need it to open at three in the morning: envelope shoulders that come off downward, zips that run the whole length of a leg, gowns with no fastening below the waist at all. Sizes start at preemie and run to 5T.
261 colorways · 29 sizes · from $10.32
- Preemie to 5TOne size chart across the range, so a second baby starts where the first left off.
- Packs, not singlesMost things arrive in threes, fours and fives: the count a laundry cycle actually needs.
- Organic cottonThe same fiber through bodysuits, sacks, sheets and towels.
- Envelope shoulders on every bodysuit
- Full-length zips on the sleepers
- Sacks instead of loose blankets
- Prints that repeat across the range
- Sized preemie through 5T
01Where to start
Three ways into the Touched by Nature range
One size chart runs through all three, so what you buy for a newborn in October still makes sense against what you buy in March. Each route lands on a shelf of the Touched by Nature collection.
Just arrived
Gowns, swaddles and preemie sizes for the weeks when changes happen every two hours and nothing goes over the head.
53 colorways on the bodysuits, rompers & layette sets shelf
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For the night
Zip sleepers, wearable sacks and fitted sheets: the things that make a crib warm without anything loose in it.
28 colorways on the sleep sacks shelf
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For the day
Pull-on pants, leggings, dresses and hoodies, in the prints that repeat across the rest of what we make.
19 colorways on the pants, leggings & shorts shelf
See the shelf02Most rated
What parents keep coming back for
The pieces with the deepest review pools in our range, grouped by what they are. Pick a group and the row changes.
Dresses
Dress and Cardigan in Woodland Alphabet
12-18 Months to 2T · 3 sizes
4.7 · 17,444 ratings
03The catalog
Eight shelves, one size chart
Everything we make is organic cotton and shares a single set of sizes, so a bodysuit, a sack and a pair of leggings bought in the same week fit the same baby.
Bodysuits, rompers & layette sets
Envelope-shoulder bodysuits in long and short sleeve, rompers, and layette sets that arrive boxed for a new baby.
53 colorways · from $10.32Sleep & play
Footed sleepers with full-length zips, gowns that open at the hem for night changes, and two-piece pajamas.
52 colorways · from $10.68Sleep sacks
Wearable blankets in sleeveless and long-sleeve cuts, sized from newborn through toddler.
28 colorways · from $12.02Blankets & swaddles
Receiving blankets, swaddle wraps and knit throws in organic cotton, packed in threes and fours.
28 colorways · from $10.99Pants, leggings & shorts
Pull-on pants with fold-over waists, leggings, tights and shorts, mostly in four-packs.
19 colorways · from $12.31Dresses, tops & hoodies
Pinafore and jersey dresses, tees, tunics and hooded sweatshirts for babies and toddlers.
24 colorways · from $12.55Socks, bibs & hats
Crew and ankle socks by the pack, dribble bibs, caps, headbands and scratch mittens.
30 colorways · from $10.99Nursery & bath
Fitted crib sheets, changing pad covers, pillowcases, hooded towels, washcloths and burp cloths.
27 colorways · from $14.9904The fabric
What organic cotton looks like before it is a vest
Forty seconds, no voice-over: the fiber, the knit and the finished piece, so you can see what you are putting against skin that is three weeks old.
We keep the same fiber through every shelf here, which is why a bodysuit, a sheet and a hooded towel bought together feel like one set rather than three. It is the plainest thing about Touched by Nature standards.
05Why it is cut this way
Four decisions you will notice at two in the morning
You will meet all four in the first two weeks, usually in the dark, usually holding a baby in one arm. They are the four decisions the people at Touched by Nature took before anything else.
The shoulder comes off downward
An envelope neck stretches sideways and rolls down the body, so a bodysuit that failed at the diaper end never passes a face. You will find the same neck on the tees and the sleepers.
The zip runs the whole leg
A full-length zip opens a sleeper from the throat to the ankle in one motion. You are not counting poppers in the dark, and the baby stays mostly covered while you work.
The sack replaces the blanket
A wearable blanket keeps a baby warm with nothing to pull over a head. The pediatric guidance prefers it to loose bedding for that reason, and the sizes here are cut so a sack cannot ride up.
The prints repeat
A print that appears on a sleeper also appears on a swaddle, a sheet and a hat. Replacing one piece does not mean replacing a set, and a gift for a second baby still matches the first.
06Before you order
How to pick the size without a tape measure
Age on the label is a shorthand. These five checks are what actually decides whether a piece fits the baby in front of you.
- Weigh first, then read the ageNewborn is for a baby under about eight pounds. Most babies leave it in two or three weeks, and 0-3 Months carries the rest of the first season.
- Measure length, not widthBabies outgrow a bodysuit in the torso long before the sleeves get short. If yours is long rather than heavy, take the next size up and roll the cuffs.
- Do not size up a sleep sackA sack with room to grow into can ride up over a face. Buy the band that fits now and move on when the length runs out.
- Count a cloth diaper as a sizePull-on pants clear a cloth diaper at the usual size for most babies. If yours is between bands, the larger one is the safer buy.
- Wash before you judge the fitCotton gives up a little length in the first hot wash. Run the pack through once before you decide the sleeves were wrong.
07Straight to a line
Touched by Nature by the thing you actually need
Each of these is a page of its own, with the size run, the price range and every print we make it in. Together they cover most of what Touched by Nature standards puts on a shelf.
Touched by Nature Bodysuits
The layer that goes on first and gets changed most. Envelope shoulders mean the shirt comes off downward rather than past a face, and the packs run in threes and fives because a newborn does not get through one a day.
33 colorways · $10.32 to $30.99
Open the pageTouched by Nature Sleep and Play
A sleeper that opens from the throat to one ankle turns a night change into one motion. Sizes start at preemie, the feet are covered, and the zip has a chin guard at the top.
29 colorways · $10.68 to $43.99
Open the pageTouched by Nature Sleep Sacks
A wearable blanket warms a baby with nothing loose to pull over a face, which is exactly why pediatric guidance prefers it to a blanket. Sleeveless and long-sleeve, 0-3 months up to 18-24.
28 colorways · $12.02 to $37.85
Open the pageTouched by Nature Swaddle Blankets
Forty inches square is the size that actually wraps, small squares come loose by the third night. Packs of two and three, some with a matching cap, and the print turns up again on the sheets and bibs.
27 colorways · $10.99 to $33.99
Open the pageTouched by Nature Dresses
A dress that arrives with the cardigan and the bloomers already matching, so nothing has to be found separately at eight in the morning. Sized 3-6 months up to 3T.
21 colorways · $12.55 to $21.99
Open the pageTouched by Nature Socks
Three size bands cover two years, the cuffs are ribbed knit rather than elastic, and they come six and eight to a pack, which is the honest number for something that disappears in car seats.
19 colorways · $10.99 to $17.99
Open the page08The company
Who Touched by Nature is
We have made organic cotton basics for babies since 2012, which is 14 years of the same short list: things that go on easily, wash often and hand down. The longer version, including what we refuse to claim, is on the about page.
One fiber, eight shelves
Organic cotton runs through everything we make, from a preemie gown to a hooded towel, so the wardrobe you build over a first year came from one place and behaves the same in the wash.
Sized preemie to 5T
A single size chart covers the whole range. You learn it once, and it still works when a second baby arrives and you are buying against hand-me-downs.
Sold in packs
Threes, fours and fives rather than singles, because a newborn does not go through one bodysuit a day and a shop that sells you one is not thinking about your laundry.
Prints that carry across
A print that appears on a sleeper also appears on a swaddle, a bib and a sheet, which is what makes a gift look considered rather than assembled at the till.
09Asked first
Questions people send us before they order
Sizing, washing, what belongs in a crib, and where to buy. If yours is not here, the mailbox is at the foot of the page.
Where can you buy Touched by Nature clothes?
Every card on this site carries a buying button, and every page has one at the bottom. The button opens the current price with our retail partner in a new tab. Payment, delivery and returns happen there rather than here.
If you already know the size, the button in the header opens the whole range at once. If you do not, the eight shelves narrow it down by what the piece is for: sleeping, changing, going out.
What size Touched by Nature should you order for a newborn?
Start at Newborn only if the baby is under about eight pounds. Most babies spend two or three weeks in it and then live in 0-3 Months for the rest of the first season. Preemie exists as its own size in the layette sets and the gowns.
Everything here shares one size chart, which is the part that saves you money: a 3-6 Months bodysuit, sack and pair of pants bought in the same week fit the same baby.
Can you machine wash Touched by Nature organic cotton at home?
Warm wash, tumble dry low. The rule that matters across every shelf is heat: a hot dryer is what shrinks a sleeper out of its size range before the baby has grown out of it, and what turns a soft sack stiff.
Wash new pieces before the first wear. Cotton gives up a little size in the first cycle, and you want that to happen before you decide whether the sleeve length was right.
Are Touched by Nature sleep sacks safe to use in a crib?
A wearable blanket is clothing, not a safety device, and the national guidance is blunt about the rest of the crib: firm flat surface, fitted sheet, nothing else in there. What a sack does is keep a baby warm without anything loose to pull over a face, which is why pediatric guidance prefers sleep clothing to blankets.
Two conditions come with it. Get the size right so it cannot ride up over the head, and stop using anything that holds the arms and chest, meaning a swaddle rather than a sack, on the day a baby shows signs of rolling.
How do you know Touched by Nature cotton is organic?
The pieces on these shelves are made from organic cotton, and where a garment mixes it with something else, such as a little spandex in a sock cuff or polyester in a sock heel, the fabric line on the card says so.
The label sewn into the garment is the document on this, and it travels with the piece. Ours is the fabric figure printed on the card beside the size run.
How many pieces do you get in a Touched by Nature pack?
Most of the range is sold in threes, fours and fives rather than singly: five bodysuits, four pairs of pants, three gowns, three swaddles. The count sits on every card and in the size table on the page for the piece.
That is deliberate and it is about laundry. One bodysuit is a spare. Five is a week, which is roughly what a newborn gets through between washes.
Every size, every print
Whatever you are dressing today, whether it is a preemie who came early, a six-month-old who has outgrown three wardrobes or a toddler who now picks her own pants, the size and the print sit behind this button, inside the Touched by Nature range.
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