babywearing

This week is International Babywearing Week, and I was just thinking about when Emma was little and wearable. I can still wear her, but she would rather walk, so it’s just not as much fun.

So here’s a walk through our babywearing days …

1 week old in an Urban Baby pouch

2 weeks old in a Moby wrap

1 month old in the Moby wrap

just over a month old in a fleece Peanut Shell pouch (this was one of our favorites!)

some days, she would really konk out

8 weeks old in the Gypsy Mama Bali Breeze Wrap – looooooved this in the summer months

in Charleston, SC

hiking in the Ergo

in Charleston, SC again for a tennis tournament

2 days before her first birthday — she was sick, and I was working

in the Beco Butterfly (I sold the Ergo to fund this, and I am SO happy with it!!)

I’m not sure what I’ll do for future baby #2. I think I would like to try a ring sling, but I did love my Moby wrap so much. I’ve always heard that ring slings are MUCH easier, though.

Anyway, happy babywearing week!

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I found another fun plugin, so I thought I’d try it out … the poll!

As you can see, there’s a poll on the left sidebar. Let me explain.

I recently ordered a new summer wrap for me and Emma – a Gypsy Mama Baby Bali Breeze wrap.

These are hand-dyed and batiked in Bali, Indonesia. They are a bit dressier than the stretch (think “blouse” vs. “t-shirt”). Though the stretch wraps are a fairly lightweight cotton, the gauze wraps are some of the lightest, coolest, most compact wraps on the market, and fold down into a handy built-in storage pocket. The gauze, like other woven wraps, offers the greatest range of carrying positions, and many find it more supportive for older children.

The only hard part I had was choosing a color.

Here are my favorites:

Iris

Freya

Psyche

Morgaine

Haumea

Orion

Lalita

So the poll is for you to see if you know me well enough to know what color I finally ended up choosing. Good luck!

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