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Where to start? Baby sling types and babywearing styles
Ok, you've decided to give babywearing a go but where do you start? There are dozens of different types of baby sling and different ways of carrying your baby. Your baby can be on your chest looking at you or facing forward (or though many sling consultants/experts feel the forward-facing position Continue Reading
Evaluating Research About Pregnancy and Birth.
So, you're pregnant? Wonderful, isn't it, how you're suddenly surrounded by friends, family and professionals, all giving you the benefit of their sage advice? Anecdotes and opinions about being pregnant and giving birth abound. How much of what you hear is actually evidence-based, though - and does Continue Reading
Getting Between the Sheets of the Bed-Sharing Debate
In the true spirit of this site, we'd like to make sure our readers have access to the facts about bed-sharing - especially in the light of press coverage about the SWISS study. A couple of facts: A cot death means a death in a cot - not in the parental bed. The correct term is SIDS - Sudden Infant Continue Reading
Baby sling or baby slings? Google and babywearing
If you type "Baby Sling" into Google you get back a list of nearly 3 million pages; if you're a plural kind of person and you stick an 's' on the end you only get 2 million and to confuse matters even more there's a significant difference in the results. Okay the top two results (*) are the same but Continue Reading
Benefits and Advantages of Baby Slings
Did you know that babies who are carried cry less? Up to 43% less. Not only that but they develop faster and mums are less likely to suffer postnatal depression. This is because babies expect to be 'in arms' because we are a 'carrying species' [read more about this here] On top of that baby slings Continue Reading