Attachment Parenting

"To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted." John Holt

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Babywearing history from Wrap Your Baby

source: http://wrapyourbaby.com/blog/2013/02/cultural-babywearing/

“I wish they had those when my babies were little!”

We modern babywearers often hear this sentiment ridiculously often.  I would be surprised to meet a babywearer who hasn’t been told this at least once.   Yet our baby carriers are modeled after carriers that have been used around the world for centuries.  The period of time in which European and American babies have not been worn, is really a very short gap and we are now returning to something more workable than strollers and bucket seats.  We are going back to something simple and functional.
If the theories in this article are correct, we are going back to one of early man’s first and most basic tools.  http://newhumanist.org.uk/2330/slings-arrows
So while babywearing is not new, it is not something that most of our grandparents had any exposure to.  No one did it.  

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