My friend Jessica, mother to 3 with another on the way, just shared this story about her 19 month old daughter and I couldn’t resist passing it on: When it was time for Lailah’s nap, I picked up her wrap (Girasol night rainbow 2.5) and as soon as she saw it, a big smile came [...]
“…you have your hands free for things like balancing!”
So you can use your baby as a pillow when you fall asleep!
The first winner of my photo contest is Melissa. Thanks for contributing to my project with your example of things you can do in a wrap! The pendant you chose is on its way to you for your prize. Anyone else have something to say about the freedom wrapping grants to parents and babies? Two [...]
Wraps–they’re good for babies in utero, too! At our Mom’s Circle, my friend Evelyn has taken the rebozo to my pregnant belly a couple of times. SO RELAXING! I’m looking forward to having this tool ready during labor, when my husband can use our rebozo to help me relax my body and allow the [...]
I was looking over the awards for babywearing advocacy and outreach from Babywearing International. It’s wonderful to see how different groups are reaching out and helping the people in their communities through babywearing. But I also thought of the influence each of us makes just by stepping out our doors with a comfortable, safe baby [...]
This is a fantastic and detailed examination of the physiological benefits of wearing your baby (or alternately, the physiological damage of not holding babies enough): http://www.sleepywrap.com/2011/02/strollers-baby-carriers-and-infant-stress/ It also covers positioning in a carrier. Obviously, having a baby in a carrier isn’t enough. The material isn’t magical. It’s using the material to hold your baby in [...]
I have countless precious moments and memories of my two babies wrapped against me. I often think back to when I was a teenager, long before my own babies, and I saw a woman wearing her baby in the grocery store. I immediately decided I would wear my babies too. It was so obviously perfect. [...]
It’s about the nine months I carried you in my womb; the hopes, dreams, and smiles with which I anticipated your earthly arrival; the sight and smell and knowledge of you that keeps my heart doing flip flops; and the fact that neither one of us wants to be separated. Because there is no place [...]
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