Another benefit of baby wearing: playing in the orchestra?
by Carder
I’d like those people to know that using a good baby carrier makes mothering and fathering so much easier. It’s a relief to ditch the stroller and travel freely. It’s a relief to be free to get yourself a sandwich or peel a banana for an older child. And it’s a relief to have so many of baby’s needs met effortlessly so the household experiences less crying and less stress.
These benefits cross socio-economic borders and no one should be excluded from them!
~ Diana Rosenfield, creator of Wrap Your Baby, explaining the benefits of baby wearing, including being able to play in an orchestra, Baby Center, October 7
Oct.10, 2014 6:00 am |
Pregnancy |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Babywearing is amazing! My 2 month old son LOVES it (it’s great snuggling time for him). And being able to have my hands free is so convenient.
Never would have thought of babywearing in an orchestra, though.
I am hoping to give it another go when my baby is a little older. From about 5 weeks onward he has been obsessed with trying to stand – on anything – if there is anything that will offer resistance against his feet, he presses against it. I can’t even put him in footed sleepers unless the legs are waaaaay too long on him, because he will press and strain against the foot part trying to “stand” on it, even laying down in bed, and get himself all worked up. So when I put him in the Moby or the ring sling, he fusses until he finds a foothold and then straightens his legs, rocketing upwards, which is of course dangerous as well as obnoxious. Once he is big enough for the Ergo I might give it another shot. It would be really nice to have my hands back.
I wish the baby-wearing tech had been available and popular when our children were small.
I suppose that as the culture grows more pro-life, there will be more inventions, activities and accommodations for for families with children again.
Alexandra, have you tried the infant insert that you can get with the Ergo? It allows for it to be used with smaller babies. I don’t know if you would still have the same issue or not, though…
I thought about that, Kate! But I think until I can have his feet dangle down it’s a lost cause for us. What a troll baby!
I wore a sling with my youngest – absolutely wonderful. and she could sleep in there – like lying in a hammock. When she was older it freed one had so I could get some things done. Very good for us both! :)
Apparently my mom tried this with me, but I didn’t like it. So I guess it isn’t for everyone.
I loved my Moby wrap with my first baby–it was the only way I could haul laundry to the apartment complex’s coin-op machines! And I definitely plan to use it again for baby #2, in hopes of keeping up with the now 3-year-old VERY active toddler!
If you have long(ish) hair and you wear the baby on your back, isn’t the baby forever putting your hair in it’s mouth ? I know everything they touch ends up in their mouth, but …? Just curious.
There is nothing wrong with getting a sitter or leaving the child with his father. If I played with her I would be ticked if we had to stop because a diaper needed changing or the kid was screaming. I certainly wouldn’t pay for a performance with an infant involved. This insistence that all kids, be all places, all the time is one of the reasons many are so entitled. There is nothing wrong with age appropriate events. I don’t go to Chuck E Cheese and expect to see an R rated movie, so why do people bring children to adult events and expect people to smile as their kids disrupts things because it isn’t a place for a kid.
Woah easy there tenn2…you can’t say anything like that in this crowd. If it’s not pro baby all the time it is a sin I tell you. Getting a sitter is practically saying you support killing babies after they are born. Careful…..
I had something (I think it was called a Snuggie) when my kids were babies that held the baby to the front of my body. I remember having them face toward my body when they were small (the pregnant feeling all over again!) and facing them outward when they were a bit bigger and wanted to look around.
I never had a something that I wore on my back. When they got too big for the Snuggie, they were carried on my hips. Back in the days when I could find my hips!