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Babywearing is the act of wearing or carrying a baby or child in a sling or other form of carrier. Babywearing promotes in-arms parenting and attachment parenting and is a form of baby transport.
Why Babywearing Your baby is born wanting & needing one essential thing. To be in your loving arms! Sometimes it is not easy to carry baby here & there, especially if Mom has other responsibilities, like other children to chase after. This is why wearing a baby in a sling or carrier is the perfect answer! It offers the closeness that every baby deserves, in a way that every parent can enjoy. Many parents practice attachment parenting, which entails wearing or carrying their babies. Parents and pediatricians alike, believe that babywearing promotes a strong bond between parents and children. Many find that, most of all, babywearing makes life easier on everyone. *A sling offers a safer alternative to dangerously balancing a car seat on top of a shopping cart *A baby in a sling is much more relaxed & content in your arms than in a cold, hard, and heavy infant car seat carrier, or Stroller. *Using a sling offers many mothers the privacy they desire when nursing their young. *sling users have found that it is easier on the back and shoulders than carrying their infant in a car seat. The weight of the child is spread more evenly across the upper body. Benefits of Babywearing Dr. William Sears, a pediatrician, coined the phase 'attachment parenting' (AP). One of Sears' principles of AP is babywearing. Sears attributes many benefits to babywearing and the in-arms style of parenting. Benefits of Babywearing Include: -Babies who are carried cry less due to the comfort of a womb-like environment. -Babies learn more because they spend more time in a quiet state of alertness. -Babies are more organized; parental rhythms (walking, heartbeat, etc.) have balancing and soothing effects on infants. -Babies get "humanized" earlier by developing socially; babies are closer to people and can study facial expressions, learn languages faster and be familiar with body language. -Babies who are carried benefit intellectually because of rapid brain growth due to constant daily stimuli and being an intimate part of the adult world. Pediatricians do NOT recommend parents use back pack type carriers before a baby's first birthday. These types of carriers are rigid, not soft and do not give enough support to mold to the baby's body. They also place all of the baby's weight resting on the base of the spine, prohibiting proper spinal growth and alignment and possibly causing major damage to developing spines. |
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