#carryingisnormal

Good morning everyone! It's #slingsharesaturday! #carryingisforeveryfamilyeverychild This hashtag is to show real life babywearing in normal circumstances: on holiday, around the home, everyday people using their slings in good times and bad, for fun or for survival. Babywearing is for everyone: every body shape, every gender, every ability, every skin colour, every family structure... Here's Kirsty with her small person in a buckle carrier on the school run. Slings make the school run so much easier, yes? Yes!!! and a photo from Anne: grandmother wrapping! It's good for children to have a wide set of loving and trusting relationships. It also helps ease the pressure on the primary caregivers 💙 Do you know a mum or dad struggling? Would a sling help them? If you're a friend who knows the children, would you offering a sling walk/nap help too? Is babywearing for you? Show the world, and I'll use some of the photos next Saturday! I'd love to continue seeing diversity represented here... more people of colour and other countries and carers and partners and dads and grandparents carrying. After all, babywearing is universal! #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal #babywearingisforeveryone #carryingisconnection #everyfamilyeverychild #carryingisforeveryfamilyeverychild https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvZsoZFnFK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k9eohci0h6ma

The @zarinah.melbourne Perfect Storm silk ring sling arrived with me today. I love it! It's so light, so strong, so supportive. It has the most wonderful shine and shimmer and it's very special. It's not super wide which makes it easy to handle the fabric, meaning it would be amazing with babies and young children and toddlers and beyond. It has had some breaking in from my friend @theslingsister and will soon become beautifully soft (it's easy to tighten even now). M is a little big but she still felt supported and I have always adored ring slings. This is joining my local library and I'm sure will be popular for special occasions (but if it was me and I had a baby I'd use it every day!) #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal #wearallthebabies #babywearing #ringsling #zarinah #dupionsilk https://www.instagram.com/p/BnZThCwlCg6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hnjic3tg6y5c

#Repost @boba with @get_repost ・・・ Did you know your baby’s body is adapted to be carried upright and oriented towards you? ✨🧡✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Some mammals leave their babies hidden in places and others are physically developed enough to follow their mothers right after birth. We know human infants are born far from knowing how to walk and we can’t just leave them in the nest to fend for themselves. Our babies have evolved to expect closeness and their survival depends on it! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Luckily their little bodies are adapted to be carried. The instinctual flexed widespread legs and the C-shaped spine, coupled with the clinging reflex that helps an infant are ALL anatomical adaptations that suggest our babies are meant to be carried. 🤯 So bring them along for the ride! #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal #wearallthebabies #babywearing #stretchywrap #normaldevelopment https://www.instagram.com/p/BnZQVrbFBxF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11i84nsdwrzz

Good morning everyone! I've been away for a couple of weeks so the Saturday share had a little break... but here we go again! (With some news about BWI below). It's #slingsharesaturday! #carryingisforeveryfamilyeverychild This hashtag is to show real life babywearing in normal circumstances: on holiday, around the home, everyday people using their slings in good times and bad, for fun or for survival. Babywearing is for everyone: every body shape, every gender, every ability, every skin colour, every family structure... Here's Meghna providing a safe space to sleep for her sleep-regressing child (we've all been there!) and Helen's partner showing their child the narrowboats on the canal. Is babywearing for you too? Show the world, and I'll use some of the photos next Saturday! I'd love to continue seeing diversity represented here... more people of colour and other countries and carers and partners and dads and grandparents carrying. After all, babywearing is universal. BWI in the States have this weekend announced their closure: they've achieved a huge amount in the US. I hope all their chapters of support can find ways to carry on supporting families with babywearing... cos we know carrying and keeping children close makes a difference long term to health outcomes. There is still a long way to go before babywearing becomes truly mainstream, standard everyday practice for every family, every child.... but with grassroots movements and ongoing visibility and continued encouragement to policy makers and working towards a global minimum standard of safety and codes of conduct etc, we will get there one day. #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal #babywearingisforeveryone #carryingisconnection #everyfamilyeverychild #carryingisforeveryfamilyeverychild https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnLT4Fl9Qo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12vv1iu94aiwu

Another great day training another bunch of peer supporters at home at the Snug! Warm congratulations to Hannah, Sarah, Kate, Lyn, Claire and Hannah... ranging from t'other side of the Pennines across to Doncaster and down to Harrow! @dancelikeamother @harrowslingconsultancy #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal #babywearingsupport #babywearingtraining #peersupport #carryingadvocacy

There's always time for fun. Trying out one of the biggest carriers I have ever seen from EasyFeel. Imagine how this would work for older children with additional needs! #carryingisnormal #carryingmatters #babywearing #bucklecarrier #additionalneeds

Made this for my friends like @wrapmybaby and a few local volunteer mamas. It's worth celebrating #carryingmatters #carryingisnormal Www.carryingmatters.co.uk/congratulations

Five days old and I get a cuddle at 4th Trimester this morning 💙💜 #parentingsupport #4thtrimester #4thtrimestersheffield #carryingmatters #oxytocinhit #carryingisnormal #buildingbonds (at The Snug)