A few great posts from International Babywearing week (last week):
We're right in the middle of International Babywearing Week! (Which I know, thanks to Megan's post.)
If you're wondering what babywearing is or what the big deal is or why a parent would want to walk around carrying a baby in a sling, this post explains it beautifully. Enjoy!
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Photo by Pepper44. CCL.
Even close family ties have their tangles. Maybe the closer you are, the more potential you have for misunderstandings, unmet expectations and broken hearts.
"...isn’t family life a bit of a three-legged race?" notes Ann at Holy Experience, "Days tie us together, and schedules trip us up, and everything snarls. We stumble and fall and it
hurts."
Her advice for both family life and three-legged races is the same: “It’ll get better if you get closer.”
I think there's something to that.
You can read the full "Untangling Family Knots" post here.
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Photos by me.
How cool is it that I accidentally did a breastfeeding-related post on the first day of World Breastfeeding Week?! Well, let's keep this up and act like I planned it that way...
We'll continue on with a link to this API post. Which is very long. (Fitting since it starts out talking about nursing children for a very long time.)
Anyway, if you scroll down, it includes suggestions on "How to Celebrate" from La Leche's website. There's also a giveaway (yay free stuff!) for a book called The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which I haven't read but it sounds like it's got a lot of handy info in it.
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Photo by Raphael Goetter. CCL.
Did you know there's a babywearing conference? Yep. It's four days long. And I'm a little baffled by the whole thing. Who goes to a babywearing conference? Maybe I could see it if you sell items for babywearing. But how many people fall into that category?
Granted, there are several workshops on the schedule that don't seem to be babywearing-specific (i.e. "Website 101," "Intro to Cloth Diapers," and "Mom and Baby Yoga") and several more on businessy things (like "Legal Considerations for BW Vendors" and "Owning a Bricks [sic] and Mortar Store"). There are, however, plenty of workshops just about babywearing, and that's what confounds me the most. How much knowledge does one need in order to wear a baby? Am I missing something here?
When I started this blog, I thought I'd look at the diaper debate for a couple weeks, then move on to baby carriers, strollers, etc. Nothing has been as simple as it seemed. Why did that surprise me?
I thought carrying your baby around in a sling/pouch was just handy, little did I know that simple action came with its own terminology (noun: babywearing; verb: to babywear) and often a whole philosophy. Need to read up on that too.
