Caring for Life explores how collectives of mothers draw on Chinese knowledge and their own embodied practices of childcare to create new hybrid forms of infant care. Tracing how the Chinese diaper-free infant toilet training practice of baniao has traveled to Australia and New Zealand and examining the practice of infant elimination communication, Kelly Dombroski develops the concept of "guarding life," a viewpoint that counters homogenous cultural practices and imposed sanitation standards to embrace diverse hygiene practices that are networked across varying wisdoms and bodies. A call to action, a theory of change, and a fascinating account of the transformational possibilities of care practices, Caring for Life shows how experiments in personal care can lead to collective, widespread change, ultimately providing a practical and hopeful vision for environmental action.