Most back carries with a wrap will have either rucksack straps (the wrap comes straight down from your shoulder and goes underneath the same arm like a backpack–or vice versa, from under one arm to over the same shoulder) or are crossed across the chest so the wrap goes
Back Wrap Cross Carry with rucksack straps 2.5 year old
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
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
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.
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…
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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