Bless the heavens, another celebratory week! The International Babywearing Week began yesterday.
The International Babywearing Week (IBW) is an annual outreach event sponsored by Babywearing International, It is a week full of celebration, promoting, advocating for, and focusing media, and social media, attention on the many benefits of babywearing. It began yesterday, October 2. and it will end on October 8.
Find out more about IBW: https://babywearingweek.org
The theme for this year, ninth annual celebration, is Threaded Together. The inspiration for the theme came from the many different threads that when combined through the weaving process form all of the carriers we use. All of these individual threads, once woven, create a material in the same way individuals and groups worldwide come together to create a global babywearing community.
My first sleeping in a Ring Sling after a walk. Fall of 2011.
One of the jolliest things that come with the IBW is all of the giveaways. Many babywearing companies organize giveaways of carriers, wraps, slings or some other babywearing gear.
Breastfeeding in a Ring Sling. Spring of 2013.
I, myself, am a passionate babywearer. I started with my first, with a green ring sling. We would occasionally wear her for a walk, from when she was like five months old till she was maybe a year. She really loved the stroller. My second tho...a monster. Love monster. She demanded to be held all the time. So when she was about a month old, one screaming day I reached for the sling and she, kind of, stayed there for a few months, till she could walk when she was 9 months. Yes, really, 9 months. I know. A monster. So as she got heavier I bought another type of carrier, a Mei Tai.
And then I had a third kid. I found myself with a hubby working night shifts and having another two kids under 5 besides the newborn, I started wearing her when she was 6 days. She is special. She is quite sensitive and feels secure when held close to us. With her, I tried a woven wrap and a SSC, in addition to the Ring Sling and the Mei Tai. I wore her for almost two full years daily. Then I got sick, as I wrote before, and couldn't for the last half of year. But last week, besides caring for a sick bunny, my youngest caught a bad cold and couldn't really breath and she coughs alot so she has trouble sleeping. So I started waring her again at bedtime.
Babywearing in a Ring Sling. Winter of 2015.
I will try to write about the carriers I tried, and others that I haven't but are out there throughout this week to try to pull you in the magical babywearing world.