Some beautiful sculptures capture the beauty and importance of babywearing through history. Do you know of other artistic representations of babywearing? Please share in the comments!
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Are You Mom Enough? Or Extreme Parenting Thoughts…
Attached Parenting is a label but you don’t have to have heard of it, studied it, or carefully adhere to it. The heart of it is to listen to and respond to your baby. No one ever hurt, spoiled, or confused a baby by listening to and responding to them. In fact, the practice of [...]
That Looks Hard
I imagine all babywearers hear it, but wrappers more than most, I think: “I would never be able to do that–I’m not coordinated,” or “That looks so complicated,” or even, “I wish I could do that!” If you are already wrapping your baby, you may have thought it looked hard at first, too. But now [...]
BabyDancing
A customer asked about babywearing and dancing. She had seen a video once of someone flamenco dancing with a baby on her back. Could she continue her traditional dances with baby wrapped up? So I asked around and I am in love with all the babywearing dancing I turned up. Firstly, thanks to some help [...]
Babywearing Excursions
Our dear friend Robby took us to the most beautiful national park yesterday: Grandview in West Virginia. He also brought his camera so I have a great shot of me, my baby, and the heavenly forest surround. I also have a slightly less picturesque shot of my husband with our one year old beside a [...]
Strollers: a cultural quirk
“It’s not so wonderful. In Africa, we just carry our children or let them roam. They can’t sit like lumps.” The above is my favorite quote from this article about trying to introduce this staple of modern parenthood into the mothering routine in Kenya. In the US, we talk about babywearing enhancing the relationship between [...]
Stuck at home?
We nurse often, but we aren’t stuck at home because we happily nurse everywhere! We cloth diaper, but we aren’t stuck at home because wet bags make it easy to cloth diaper on the go. We EC (elimination communication) too, but with a potty in the trunk and lots of bushes and restrooms, that’s easy [...]
10 Places to Wrap Your Toddler
In a crowd–so you don’t loose each other. On a nature hike, across a creek. At the zoo, after a long day. At the beach, when you think it’s time to leave and he doesn’t. In a parking lot, when your hands are full. Anywhere, when your little one is feeling sick or vulnerable. On [...]
I’m famous!
It became official on Thursday when I was at Busch Gardens with my girls. Annabelle was wrapped on my back in a rucksack, and I was chasing Ada from attraction to attraction when a babywearing mom ran to catch up with me and tell me that, “I told my husband it was the woman from [...]
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