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The No-Brainer Baby Carrier
Give me the easiest baby carrier, the one that needs no instruction booklet, has no list of warnings, requires no specialized lingo, and I’ll give you a bazillion dollars. That’s the number my three year old says when he tells me, “Mama, I want a bazillion more jelly beans.” Oh yeah? I think to myself, Well, I want a bazillion more hours of sleep.
Three Kinds of Easy
If you’re the kind of parent who cowers at the …
Costumes for Your Baby-in-a-Sling
If you miss the trick-or-treating candy-collecting days of yore, bundle your little one up in a sling or carrier, grab a flashlight and bag, and get read to help baby celebrate her first Halloween. Does it really matter that she doesn’t even have teeth or that she can’t eat chocolate?
Here are some costume ideas for baby only and for baby-parent combos. I’ll also provide a list of sling-friendly costumes and do-it yourself ideas you can …
Finding Your Eco-Friendly Baby Carrier
Thank goodness it’s not as hard to be environmentally conscious as it was, say, for our friends who had kids ten years ago. These friends may now be flaunting the fact that their kids are sleeping through the night. Well, you can just flaunt right back, so to speak, with your eco-friendly, chemical free, sustainably manufactured baby carrier. Yeah, I wouldn’t wait for them to turn green with envy either (pun intended).
What Makes a Carrier …
Memory Devices for Most Popular Wrap Ties
This is a follow up to my related article, “Untangling Baby Wrap Tying Techniques.” Here, we’ll unwrap the directions for two popular carrying styles – the hug wrap is covered in the previous article. Reading that one before continuing here will help clear up how mnemonic (memory) devices, as they apply to baby wraps, can be helpful in quickly learning to use your wrap.
The Cradle Hold (Great for Nursing and Newborns)
This tie technique puts …
Untangle the Baby Wrap Tying Techniques
If you’ve purchased a wrap-style carrier like the Moby, or if you’re thinking about it, take a lesson from your high school or music teacher. Remember “I before E except after C” or “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”?
We may be parents, but we’re not too old to use mnemonic (memory) devices to ingrain techniques for using baby wrap carriers. This article will explain how …
A Hip Baby Carrier for Both of You
When my grandmother embarrassed the heck out of me by announcing that I had “childbearing hips”, I wished I would have dissolved into the wallpaper. Twenty years later, I’m over it. Good thing too, because I realized in part that the childbearing she might have been talking about wasn’t the actual birth, which doesn’t last nearly as long as the other kind of childbearing (Carrying one or more children on your hip as they cling to …
Can Baby Carriers Diminish Reflux?
To soothe their newborns, many parents can often be observed rocking, jiggling, or bouncing their babies rhythmically. But for little ones with still-developing digestive systems, gastrointestinal distress, or full-blown reflux (pun not intended), one false move can cause baby to lose those precious few ounces of breastmilk or formula he just consumed. So, how does using a baby carrier fit into the early months of a baby suffering from irritating, even painful, acid reflux?
What Is …
Are You the Baby Carrier Type?
If you think parents who wear their babies are swathed in tie-dyed baby slings, striding around in vegan sandals, and driving hybrid vehicles, you may be accurately describing oh, I don’t know, a hundred parents or so (definitely a good description of Julia Roberts, by the way)! But truth be told, there is no one type of parent who uses a baby carrier.
If you have been discouraged from wearing your baby by the nagging thought …
Why I Chose To Use a Baby Carrier
I’d like to share with you why I chose baby carriers over strollers whenever possible with both my kids.
But I wanted to make this more than a personal story.
So I’ve organized this article to cover probable reasons for babywearing among four major groups individuals likely to be weighing whether or not to choose a baby carrier. Who should read this?
Expectant parents awaiting the birth of their first child.
Parents who didn’t use a carrier with their …
Swaddle Your Baby: Which Carrier is Best?
If you’re a new parent, you’re probably getting used to the unexpected. Did you ever anticipate that properly swaddling your infant would be the holy grail, the well-publicized highly-touted key to happiness for both of you? Even swaddled, your baby still must be carried in the hammock of your arms, unless you can find a baby carrier that’s best for swaddling.
Swaddling: The What and Why
It’s the first thing the nurses will do when your baby …
