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Rainbow Baby and Pregnancy Loss

Guest Post by Kita Wolfe for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month When asked about our current pregnancy and why we call her our rainbow baby, I can’t help but wish that I could just walk away sometimes. But most of the time, I’m open and welcome to sharing a

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Babywearing When the Weather Changes

When it starts to get chilly in the evening and early mornings, wrapping parents are presented with the challenge of dressing themselves and their babies for a day with fluctuating temperatures. Of course, layers are always good – you can remove them when it gets hotter, and put them back

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Discreet Breastfeeding and Babywearing

This is what is known as discreet breastfeeding thanks to a Front Wrap Cross Carry in a Paisley Linger Ellevill wrap. You can learn some ways to nurse in your woven wrap here 🙂 While it comes easily to some nursing pairs, other moms and babies just don’t breastfeed discreetly.

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Big Changes for the Wrap Your Baby Family

Unprecedented 2 for 1 woven wraps sale! Starts on 12 July (Wednesday) at 12am EST through Friday. Choose your first wrap and check-out. Your second wrap will be a surprise! The second wrap may be 1st or 2nds Quality. It may be a wrap conversion ring sling, a discontinued Didymos

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Pro Wrestlers Reby Sky and Matt Hardy Baby Wearing

A professional wrestler herself, now married to Broken Matt Hardy, Rebecca Hardy (aka Reby Sky and Queen Rebecca), is a key member of Professional Wrestling’s most beloved family, consisting of brothers Jeff and Matt Hardy, Reby’s father Señor Benjamin, and Reby and Matt’s 1 year old son, King Maxel. Reby’s pregnancy and

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Mama Miti – Babywearing Children’s Book

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya is both a children’s biography of the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize and a work of ecological and humanitarian inspiration that shows children that you can make a difference one person, one family, or one tree at a time.

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Is My Toddler Too Big For a Wrap?

No, your baby – even your toddler – is NOT too big for a wrap! How do I know? Keep reading and you’ll see! For a toddler wrap, you will want to get a good woven wrap. You will not get the support you want from a stretchy wrap. With a sturdy toddler

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Woven Wrap Newbie – What is a FWCC?

What is FWCC? FWCC stands for Front Wrap Cross Carry and it is the most popular way for parents to wrap a baby in a woven wrap front carry. You can use a woven wrap so many different ways. We call each different way of tying ‘a carry’ and give each carry a

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Front Wrap Cross Carry Newborn Twist

The Front Wrap Cross Carry Newborn Twist is a trick that may make your newborn Front Wrap Cross Carry (FWCC) work better for you. Using this twist is not wrong or right. It’s a tool for you to use if it fits your needs! As long as your baby is

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Kadri – Babywearing with a Bad Back

Babywearing with a Bad Back Below, Kadri shares her experiences as someone who had a back condition before having children. She relates how becoming a mother fueled her search for a truly comfortable baby carrier. One that would make Babywearing with a bad back beneficial and enjoyable! 

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How is a Wrapped Baby Like a Paper Flower?

Why do people love wrapping so much? If you are new to wrapping (or when you were new to wrapping), did you ever wonder why so many people love wrapping SO much? Connection between you and your baby is absolutely the most important thing that wrapping facilitates. Yet many parents

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Normalize Breastfeeding For a Healthier World

The push to normalize breastfeeding isn’t intended to embarrass or minimize the ways that any parents feed their babies. There are important reasons to normalize breastfeeding: breastfeeding can improve health in babies and mothers, can decrease infant mortality, and can ease poverty.

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Natibaby Notes & the Babywearing Orchestra

We are a music-loving family, and that’s why we wanted to make this wrap that looks like sheet music.  There was nothing else like it at the time.  But it couldn’t just be a nod towards music, it was for real musicians, so it had to be REAL music.  Natibaby

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Comparing Mei Tais to Woven Wraps

This is not so much an introduction to Mei Tais as it is a geeky comparison.  When I first launched WrapYourBaby.com in 2005 I included instructions for both wraps and Mei Tais.  My favorite carriers were woven wraps and Mei Tais and I wanted to teach others about them at a

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Kinds of Baby Carriers

Historical Note: This was one of the first pages on my original educational website, long before I added a store.  WrapYourBaby.com was one of the earliest websites providing photo tutorials for wraps (and originally mei tais as well) before YouTube came along and provided video tutorials.  I created this page to

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