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Make Mothers Day Meaningful

This Mother’s Day help a refugee family by donating money or carriers to Carry the Future and comment on this Facebook post to tell me you did. I’ll choose one random winner to receive one of my exclusive woven wraps. Carry the Future accepts donated soft structured carriers and mei tais which

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2015 Winning Babywearing Costume

Top 3 winning costumes from this year’s babywearing costume contest! #3 best babywearing costume of the year (1,244 votes): Katie’s family is an impressive looking wrecking crew with baby driver/operator and candy bucket wrecking ball!

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Babywearing Halloween Contest 2015

Do I spy Pumpkin spice . . . everything? Must be time for Wrap Your Baby’s annual Facebook Costume Contest! One entry will win a free woven wrap! Start planning your babywearing costume now. Share it on the Wrap Your Baby Facebook page anytime in October. I will share some of

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Natibaby Wool Wrap for Summer

I donated a wool Natibaby wrap to the Babywearing Group in Augusta, Georgia, with the request that they try it out in the Summer and tell me if the rumors are true: is a wool wrap really breathable and (relatively) cool in hot weather? Here are the responses from members

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My First Wrapped Baby Turns Eleven

How I became a mother, Wrap Your Baby became a business, and you got 25% off a Natibaby wrap this week – read on! I became a mother on September 9th 2004.  It was a girl!  I had planned to name her Molly if she was a girl but once

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What do you love about wrapping your baby?

“I’m mom of a 22 month old and a 5 week old. I only wrap my 5 week old. What I love about wrapping is that i can keep my baby so close in an extremely comfortable and natural way. Not only does it keep baby close and free my

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Babywearing, Family, Special Needs

Connie graciously allowed me to share her Facebook post to friends from earlier this month: Why do we babywear? For my child with cerebral palsy, babywearing allows him to engage with the world when he was a non-walking toddler; now he walks with orthotics, but tires easily, the carrier allows

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How to Share Babywearing with the World without being OBNOXIOUS

I know you love wrapping your baby: the closeness, the connection, and the convenience!  AND it’s so pretty!  And mastering the different wrap carries is fun and makes you feel a sense of accomplishment! Naturally, you want to share this amazingness with EVERYBODY.  But does everybody want to hear?  Are

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Pediatric Babywearing

Mandy is a pediatric nurse.  She doesn’t work in NICU so hadn’t had experience before with a baby going through withdrawal, but as a babywearing mother, when she found herself responsible for a distraught baby, she knew what she could offer him for comfort!  When she shared this in our

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Summer Babywearing and Woven Wraps

Summer babywearing in Florida means knowing how to keep everyone comfortable in a baby carrier in hot weather.  Let me show you some cooler carries to use with your wraps and give you tips for surviving hot weather wrapping so you don’t have to stay in-doors all Summer!

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London Intro to Babywearing Walks

Motherhood is an experience that is unique to each of us yet there are certain experiences that many of us have in common.  That’s why other moms can be the best allies and friends and help to keep us sane and make us happy. Jay (founder of the organization) understood

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Dear New Wrapper . . . You Got This!

Sometimes I hear that wrapping is too hard.  It has a steep learning curve.  There is even a popular meme circulating that begins with “Dear New Wrapper” and promises that as terrible and frustrating as it is to learn to wrap, it will all be so worth it. I disagree. 

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Farm Babywearing – Woven Wraps & a Farming Family

Tatyana relates her experiences with farm babywearing – wrapping her babies and toddlers as she and her husband Frank, always adventurous, embark on the adventure of farming: With two babies 13 months apart, babywearing has saved my sanity way too many times! Me and my husband met hiking the Appalachian

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