Articles Tagged ‘wrap’
Top Seven Questions About Baby Carriers
Scanning my parents’ group message boards, there are certain questions that pop up more frequently than others when moms and dads are discussing which carrier is best for their baby. Here’s a run-down of the top seven questions and their answers:
1. “Is the BabyBjorn safe? I heard it wasn’t. Why?”
Some of what you’ve heard is true for very young infants, birth to eight or twelve weeks. For the smallest and youngest, the Baby Bjorn …
Make it a Double: Baby Carriers for Twins
Congratulations! You’ve been riding the multiples roller coaster since you first saw two (or more) cute little bean-shapes on the ultrasound. Months later, they’ve arrived and the questions have surely piled up. Do we feed them at once? Should they sleep at the same time? Will they wake each other up? Will we, their parents, ever sleep again? When are the grandparents coming to help? I know carrying them is a great way to soothe …
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. …
Kangaroo Care: Baby Carriers for Preemies
The benefits of carrying our babies close are well known. But what about preemies? In the first weeks after a premature birth, parents of preemies are often exhausted from monitoring their baby in the NICU, emotionally spent at the delay in taking their baby home, and scared about the health concerns associated with premature birth. When your premature baby comes home for good, Kangaroo care – with the right carrier for low birthweight babies – can …
Didymos: Weird Name, Wonderful Wrap
Why, you may ask, am I writing a review of a wrap I didn’t buy? Here’s my short philosophy on baby gear. Our family either buys one superior product in a category – say strollers, carrier, or breast pumps, or we buy two or three less expensive and more specialized products from that category.
If we’re sold …
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 …
Why Moms Love Moby
Not named for the whale or the musician, the Moby is meant to evoke the image of the Mobius Strip – that figure-eight looking shape you can make by taking a strip of paper, twisting it once, and bringing the ends back together to form an unending band of paper. And the Moby Wrap holds …
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?
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The Wrapsody: A Baby Carrier for Your Little Fish
I have to admit I was skeptical about this company’s release of a wrap-style baby carrier that could be worn in the water. But after having it for about a month, I can attest that there’s more than one watery use for this wrap, which costs around $55.
The Wrapsody Water wrap is made by GypsyMama, but this isn’t your tie-dyed hippy-mama baby wrap. …
