As predicted, I had a great time recharging with the moms and babies at our weekly moms group. It is so nice to get together like this and talk with other moms in a way that is more conducive to discussion than your average park date! We talked nursing (and
Bali Baby Breeze wraps have come to Wrap Your Baby and are available for sale in limited quantities. I look forward to carrying them in all sizes very soon, but for now I am very excited to have them at all. Here are a couple of the newly available Bali
I’ve been so busy increasing inventory, putting up new web pages for new products, and sending newsletters out to my mailing list that I haven’t posted much. I really wanted to get one in on Mothers Day, and now that the kids are in bed, I have at least half
Belle is old enough now for me to start playing with hip carries. I don’t know if I would even bother if I didn’t have a blog to keep up…I have never found hip carries to be as easy, comfy, or convenient as front and back carries. I’ll try to
Hanna Vogel wrote me this very nice letter that I wanted to share: “I am so happy I stumbled across your website the other day. I am so passionate about babywearing, and now that my youngest is three have not been doing it much…and I miss it! Almost enough reason
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
Sometimes a parent puts a little baby into a wrap carry and the baby disappears down into the fabric. This can be upsetting to the baby and, most importantly, is dangerous. You should always be able to see your baby’s face. Your baby’s head should be high on your chest
First, put your arm around your baby in the wrap and hold your baby at the position that you want him or her to be held. While holding your baby right there with one hand, use the other hand to pull the fabric of the wrap tight so that it
This post is just for Dannette, who wants to know how to wrap up her two year old. First, I recommend a back carry. By this age it gets unwieldy to wear them on the front and a back carry is more comfortable than a hip carry. If your son
Take a deep breath and remember that some people are completely unfamiliar with babywearing. The most important thing is not to let them upset you. The best thing would be to let them see how wonderful babywearing is. But the key is “let them.” People are rarely persuaded by force!
Due to the seventeen thousand obscene spam comments posted in one day to this article in it’s original incarnation, I had to delete the original post and am reprinting the text here. AND, all comments will now require approval prior to posting! Here’s the blog post again for all the
There is just no way I cannot repost this. The woman is a comic genius. And then there is this one: See more comics on her blog: http://www.mama-is.com
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
Babywearing becomes more valuable when carrying your children becomes more of a challenge. Pregnancy is such a time. You may become tired more easily, but that fact does not keep your toddler or preschooler from needing and wanting to be carried. If you are going to be carrying your child,
Recently the Infantino bag sling was recalled after some babies died in the carrier. It is terrible that deaths had to occur before this dangerous product was recalled, and it is a reminder to all parents to treasure our children and to make sure we know how to carry them
