Safe Babywearing Practices All Wrapped Up

Wearing your baby does a world of good, yes, but it’s no good if the way you carry your little one in a carrier does a world of harm to your back, your neck, or your posture.  It’s also no good to race around wearing baby, doing as much as you can, without a bit of mindful forethought about the types of babywearing task-management that might put baby at risk of discomfort, or even injury. …

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 …

Bjorn Again: A Baby Carrier’s New Models Worth It?

[caption id="attachment_327" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The Babybjorn Air"][/caption]I have a friend with seven kids between the ages two and twelve.  The three eldest are girls, followed by a run of four boys.  While the kids’ clothes wore out, while strollers broke, while sippy cups cracked and went to the recycle bin, one old stand-by lasted through seven periods of babyhood.  You guessed it: …

Does a Lightweight Infant Carrier Fit Your Lifestyle?

Ever notice how guys offer to carry our heavy stuff and their own? I thought it was chivalry.  Turns out it’s weight distribution.   So it is with baby slings.  You want to find a model that is lightweight, but all infant carriers are not equal in their equal distribution of baby’s weight.

Pound for pound, all soft-framed carriers, slings, and wraps are – themselves – very light.  Soft-framed carriers are on the heavy end because …