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The Wrap Photos

I wish I could send a prize to everyone! I am not kidding when I say this was hard.  In the end I practically just tossed a coin because I couldn’t stop going round and round on these great photos.  I had photos of children learning about the world from a wrap, babies were snuggling in  perfect contentment on a parent’s chest, mommies babywearing and daddies babywearing, infants and toddlers, broad smiles, wide eyes, and sleepy grins, wrapping in the water and in the snow, in the orchard and in the city…

It’s just what I wanted: the variety of where wrapping takes you, but I didn’t realize how impossible the choosing would be.  There were also some really stunningly beautiful photos that would win a photography contest, but I was looking for context, too: all the places that wrapping can take you, how much of life you can experience with your baby!

Do you feel sorry for me, yet?  No, you just want me to shut up and show you some pictures, already!  Okay, okay, here’s what you want:

The two mommas who have a free babywearing pendant coming their way are:

Candace, who so epitomized “mommy” that the very description of her photo won the hearts of so many of you–like April who commented, “A picture of how babywearing brings joy and simplicity to what could be drudgery. We all have babies, we all clean up messes on hands and knees, with mussed hair. No matter the ethnicity, the creed, the country. We are ALL mothers!”

And Amanda, who gave me scores of photos of her family wrapping with multiple parents and through multiple children (sometimes both kids at once) across years in the snow, in orchards, on hay rides and firetrucks…so here’s just a sample:

I’m going to make these photos into a movie about baby wrapping, but in the meantime, here’s are a  few of the others I had to choose between: