Changes and a contest!

Good evening! It is almost DECEMBER! I can hardly believe that this year has gone by so quickly. I have finally started my Christmas shopping - the earliest I have ever started. Normally, I wait for snow. Enough about me, on to baby wearing news!

First, a reminder about the next baby wearing meeting. Though the place we meet hasn't changed, you might notice the name on the sign is different. It now reads the (re)birth wellness centre. The lovely ladies inside still offer the same fantastic support and services, just with a new name.

Our next meeting is on Friday, December 2 from 10am til noon at the (re)birth centre, 256 Central Ave. in downtown London. Parking is available at meters on Central Ave. and Wellington St., or free if you are willing to walk a bit further from a side street.

I also wanted to let our followers know about a contest that Michelle from Natural Mother Productions is running just in time for Christmas. Everyone who enters has a chance to win a custom NPM baby carrier! Check out "Natural Mother Productions" on Facebook and check under "Notes" for more details on how to enter and win.

Looking forward to seeing lots of mamas (and daddies, of course!) at the meeting next week!

An introduction.

Hello! I'm Catherine, and I have been given the reins to post on this blog about babywearing. Kendra is a very trusting person, but I think, in this case, it is well-placed.

I am a first time mom to a wonderful little boy. I was introduced to babywearing by my lovely sister in law, who wore her second child and taught me how to carry him in a structured carrier. When my son was born, she once again stepped up and taught me to wrap my baby, when he was just a few days old. I was recovering from a c-section, and wearing my baby gave him the closeness he needed, and gave me my hands back to do the basics around the house.

It wasn't perfect, but it worked for us. I attended my first babywearing meeting in May, and was hooked. I even went home with a new wrap, thanks to Kendra, and a better way to wear him, thanks to a princess called Carly. ;)

Since the Geckos Tanami came home with us, I have steadily been acquiring more wraps and carriers. Each of them hold a special place in my collection, and I am a wee bit ashamed to say I now have a different carrier or wrap for each day of the week. In my defence, they each serve a different purpose, and I chose each and every one of them with care.

I love the idea of babywearing, and am thrilled to be able to pass along what I have leared and am learning to those new to wrapping. As I move forward in this blog, I hope to open a discussion about the benefits of babywearing, different carriers (both structured and wraps) and different techniques to try out.

I look forward to your input! As much as I like to talk about myself, I hope this can become a reader-directed blog, covering what you are interested in. Please leave comments, so I can get ideas about what to look at.

Happy Babywearing!

Next Baby Wearing Meeting!

Our next meeting is this week! We'll be getting together this Friday, October 7 from 10am-noon at Life With Baby (256 Central Avenue). We have an extensive collection of wraps, carriers and experience to help find the right carrier for you and your little one! The meeting is very child friendly, so please feel free to bring older siblings!

A famous London Babywearer!

One of our own just won a babywearing photo contests! Check her awesome picture out below! Congrats Canadace!

http://wrapyourbaby.com/blog/2011/10/thewrapphotos/

Babywearing meeting tomorrow!

Hi all,

HOpe you can come out tomorrow, Friday September 9th to Life with Baby for our babywearing meeting. WE meet from 10-12. Please feel free to bring your older children.

We will have lots of wraps to try and borrow!

Hope to see you there!

Thanks and some info!

Hi all,

Thanks for a great meeting today, it was great to see so many new moms/new to babywearing moms! Hope you found some useful information today! Please let us know if there is anything else you need!

As requested, some information.

This is the website/forum we mentioned that is all about babywearing. It is quite big and busy and overwhelming, but is a wealth of babywearing information, and they even have a for sale section to look at carriers if you are planning to buy! You do have to register.
www.thebabywearer.com

Brands of Woven Wraps: This is not an exhaustive list, but the ones that I know. So you can tell if you are getting a woven wrap, ask for the materials (should be cotton, linen, wool, bamboo - NOT jersey).
*Didymos
*Natibaby
*Hoppediz
*Storchenwiege
*Chimparoo (Canadian!!!)
*Vatanai
*Bbslen


Some great videos for Front Wrap Cross Carry (FWCC)- the front carry we showed most of you today. IN this one she holds the baby the whole time, which is another way you can do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSTW8h5lcs&feature=related

Nursing in a FWCC video I like! Where she leaves his legs in, I would often leave them out. Its just preference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCs1Rj_6jyA&feature=related

And some great ring sling videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdP_KcN20uw (for a new born)
http://www.youtube.com/user/zolowear#p/u/31/Bkb9vZklVpk (legs out)
http://www.youtube.com/user/zolowear#p/u/33/2wBCKU7hyf0 (Hip Carry for toddler/older baby)

Any of the ring sling videos by the Zolowear are great!

Happy babywearing!

Next Meeting: August 12th 10-12 at LWB

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in announcing our meeting! We will meet a WEEK tomorrow, on August 12th at our usual location, Life With Baby.

All are welcome, and brainstorm some ideas of other things you would like to see the group doing. Weekend meetings for after you go back to work/daddies? Social ideas? Workshops/specific topics? Let us know what you want!!

See you next week!

Next Meeting and Congrats to our Lotto winner!

Hi all,

Our next meeting will be Friday August 12th at our usual location, Life with Baby, from 10-12. Please join us to try out some carriers, and even borrow some. Feel free to bring older children as well, and if you haven't had your baby yet, don't worry. There are lots of borrow! We also will be taking a photo shoot to catalogue our carriers. Come on out and be a model!!!

And big congratulations to our lotto winner, Catherine! She has won a carrier of her choice! We are working on paying off the carriers we have bought for the library as well as funding some much needed additions. So any donations are welcome - either monetary or carriers that you no longer use!

Thanks

Spreading the Babywearing Love!!

We want to expand our babywearing group and lending library! So here is the deal...

Buy a raffle ticket for only $2 or 3/$5. Winner will receive a carrier of their choice for FREE!!! (Chose from some ring slings, woven wraps, mei tai's) Lots to chose from, including brands such as Didymos, Natibaby, comfy joey and more!!

Winner will be drawn August 1st, prior to our next meeting which is August 5th!

Good luck!

Babywearing meeting Tomorrow!

10-12 at Life with Baby (256 Central Ave). Lots of carriers to try and borrow, and lots of other mamas to talk to! Please come out if you can!

Also, Sunfest is on in Victoria park, right across the road - you can check it out for some lunch after the meeting!