Pinning Down and Wrapping Up a Wiggly Toddler
Back Wrap Cross Carry with rucksack straps 2.5 year old
July 23, 2010
6 Comments
Wrap Your Baby Blog
3.6 meters: Shorter Wrap Options
I dedicated yesterday to my 3.6 meter Inka Storchenwiege. It is one of my very favorite wrap colorways, has been used plenty and is floppy soft, and I used it in July in Florida, albeit mostly indoors. I am something like 5’3 and 115 lbs. The 3.6 was too short
July 23, 2010
No Comments
Moms Circle–Vaccines
Instead of our usual format, our moms circle invited a guest speaker today. Doctor Holly Johantgen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an Acupuncture Physician and a Primary Care Physician in Clearwater Florida, as well as a mother of two young children. She fielded questions about vaccines, and we snuck
July 22, 2010
No Comments
Cloth diaper meet-up
Tuesday the Pinellas Cloth Diaper Chatter group had a meet-up at the beach. We love cloth diapers, but for me, everything is about baby wraps! Amy has a new Lou Neobulle in a shorter size than her other wrap and wanted to know what carries she could do with it.
July 15, 2010
No Comments
30 June Moms Circle
I never quite got around to writing about this moms group, but with such a beautiful collection of mamatoto dyads, I had to share the photos! The last one is the babywearing gang we formed–flashing our gang sign…
July 15, 2010
No Comments
Moms Circle, 14 July 2010
Today I helped Amanda and Julie get their babies on their backs in double hammock carries, and helped Dana’s cousin wrap her itty bitty up in her Moby. In conversations we addressed topics as varying as coping with potential medical problems (and the question of trusting doctors), to boundaries in
July 14, 2010
No Comments
Moms Co-op
At our Moms Circle today, we decided to form a mothering co-op. We’ll start next week at my house. Tuesday, 6 July 2010, I’m opening up my house at 9am for a playdate in which some of the moms will stay and hang out, and some moms will drop off
June 30, 2010
1 Comment
Moms’ Circle 23 June 2010
Evelyn began our discussion today with an admonition that we are here to support each other, and not to nitpick the particulars of our parenting choices. We are better mothers when we are emotionally (and physically) available to our children. As the mother, we are often wholly responsible for our
June 24, 2010
No Comments
This week.
I’ve hardly been on the computer the past week. I haven’t blogged, I’ve let my messages and emails go stale, and I couldn’t take pictures because the old ones weren’t uploaded. I did: spend the Solstice with my daughters and some friends (aged 5 and 2). We made suns out
June 24, 2010
No Comments
Babywearing is a Tool
The end is a happy, thriving child; a relaxed, loving mama; and a strong bond between them. The means is the baby wrap. Wrapping made mothering less stressful and more fun. Let’s face it, this society isn’t exactly tailor made for women with children. Sometimes it’s a pain to function
June 15, 2010
1 Comment
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
June 15, 2010
No Comments
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
June 15, 2010
1 Comment
9 June 2010 Moms Circle
In wrapping news, Lindsay got a water wrap, Julie’s going to buy Lindsay’s Christiane EllaRoo, Ainsley and Evan are deciding which Bali Baby Breeze to get, Anna bought my Earthy Rainbow Girasol, I bought Tina’s mystery organic wrap, and Tina’s going to sell her short EllaRoo and buy a Bali
June 10, 2010
No Comments
Pool wrapping
We went swimming in our friend Darlene’s pool last week and she took some pictures of Annabelle and I in the water wrap. I tied it in a front cross carry, with the tie behind her back instead of under her legs. And Darlene put Audrey in their new Alice
June 9, 2010
No Comments
Babies Must Breathe
It is true of all human babies that they must be able to breathe. This is true in arms, in bed, in wraps, and in cars. Always and everywhere. Usually there is no difficulty. But in the case of a very young infant, especially premature or weak infants, extra care
June 7, 2010
No Comments
