June 21, 2007
New Moby Wrap Article
I just got an e-mail about a Moby wrap article on the National Baby & Children’s web site. The article titled All Wrapped Up: It's 18 feet long, nurtures a bond between you and your baby..... is short, but worth reading.
I personally would not have named the article the way they did. Just hearing that a wrap is 18 feet long sounds intimidating, and could be a turn off to new moms and dads. I think once you use the wrap a few times the length of the wrap is inconsequential.
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Posted by ChattBabyWearer at 09:35 PM | Comments (0)
Babywearing hot new thing for busy parents
Found this babywearing article today and thought I would share.
One thing that strikes me is that the importance of babywearing has to be reported in the news. How is it that the need for a child to be close to its parents has to be reported on? I seriously don't get it. I guess I am struck by how quickly some moms will reject natural instinct and follow the silly and harmful advice of the Gary Ezzos of the world.
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Posted by ChattBabyWearer at 06:27 PM | Comments (2)
September 28, 2006
Babywearing in the News
Just a few links to a little babywearing write up the Chattanooga Times Free Press did. Here is a link to the TFP article.
Also, you can check out this link if you want to see some babywearing in action. It starts on page 5.
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September 01, 2006
Babywearing Fathers
I have been thinking about the fact that I want to be much more involved in babywearing when our next baby arrives. With our first two I just let DW do all the babywearing for the first several months. Then when the little one would get a little bigger I would do some of the babywearing. I guess my reasoning was that in support of cue feeding it just made more sense to have the baby close to the food.
I think what we have learned is that baby was so used to sleeping on or next to mommy that he could not easily fall asleep with me. My hope is that by wearing from the start and getting baby used to falling asleep with me that on those evenings the DW would like to stay up a little longer that the transition to bed will be a smoother one even though she is not there.
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Posted by ChattBabyWearer at 07:46 PM | Comments (0)
August 24, 2006
Wear Your Baby at Wal-Mart
The American Academy of Pediatrics has an opinion on this! Here is an excerpt from their guide, Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families 2006:
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July 29, 2006
About this Blog
This is our first post here at the Chattanooga Babywearing blog. I am in the process off getting everything set up, which could take a little while for me to do. I think I will just start of using the default template, and as time allows, we will move on to a more personal, babywearing-oriented template, whatever we figure that out to be.
Leslie and I are not new to babywearing. We have been wearing babies since our first little one was born 3½ years ago. Leslie was ready to start (or I guess I should say, continue) wearing him before he was even born. She bought a New Native pouch, which she carried him in, in spite of the fact that it was extremely uncomfortable, but being that there was no place in Chattanooga to try on a different carrier, she just had to make due. Plus, he just loved being worn, so she just endured the lack of comfort and continued to wear him. When he was old enough to start holding himself up, we started to carry him around in an external-frame baby backpack carrier. At the time, I was use to hiking with a 50 lb. external-frame backpack, so wearing a 15+ pound baby was no big deal, and the pack was fairly comfortable.
Flash forward 3 years, and we now have two boys who are 3 ½ and 18 months, and another little one on the way. Due to Chattanooga's void in the babywearing support department, we started an online store where we sell baby carriers. We also open up our house for a more hands-on experience with baby carriers. Leslie can demonstrate the carries that can be done with slings, wraps, mei tai, podaegis, and structured (front/back pack) carriers.
Our goal here at the Chattanooga Babywearing blog is not to really talk about our store, but more just a place where we will link to good articles, highlight many of the baby carriers on the market, and discuss the babywearing interests of those of us in the Chattanooga and Southeast Tennessee area.
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