Kangaroo care of infants involves a parent, usually the mother, holding the baby skin-to-skin on her bare chest. The steady warmth, easy access to breastfeeding, and simple, physical closeness benefit parent and baby. All babies benefit from closeness to a parent, and premature babies need the most help. Kangaroo Care Helps Baby Regulate Systems Among…Read the full article.

International Babywearing Week celebrates babywearing around the world. New innovations is mass-marketed baby carriers often have their roots in long traditions. Really, carrying a baby is quite simple. Women use what they have to hold their babies close while they go about their busy lives. In the end, the differences in traditional baby carriers around…Read the full article.

Want a good cry, mothers? Peaceful Parenting at DrMomma.org asked last year during International Babywearing Week that men from around the world send in their babywearing photos. From these 729 photos, Danelle Frisbie put together a beautiful babywearing mosaic proving that Real Men Wear Babies. Go look at these photos one by one. Please tell…Read the full article.

October 6-12 is International Babywearing Week, when people around the world show the variety of ways they wear their babies and keep them close enough to kiss. Find an official celebrating organization, and see some of the ways organizations around the world celebrate babywearing. Check out the world’s longest baby sling from Budapest, Hungary, during…Read the full article.

I wore my first baby in a sling starting the day she was born. I knew no one else in person who owned a baby carrier, but another local homebirthing parent recommended that I read Dr. Sear’s Baby Book. I learned about babywearing from Dr. Sears, and my local baby store happened to sell ring…Read the full article.

With a nip in the air, baby needs more than a T-shirt and a diaper to go out. I have two suggestions for the best baby carrier to keep you and your baby warm enough in cool fall weather. Moby Wrap Keeps Baby Warm Start with a baby carrier that holds your baby snugly without…Read the full article.

Today is a sad day. This is the day that Hotslings closes. Hotslings have been a staple for us for five years. It was one of the first products we opened our doors with. In the early days of Parenting by Nature, the baby slept, watched, and played happily in her Hotslings while Tamara created…Read the full article.

Pods and Onbus. Have you heard of them but wondered what kind of baby carriers these are? Podaegi and Onbuhimo are traditional Asian baby carriers. There are more Asian baby carriers becoming popular in North America along with traditional styles of babywearing from Asia. These carriers share a basic structure of rectangle of fabric with…Read the full article.

When you are babywearing in hot weather, there are three elements of summer cool. Fire – Stay out of the Sun! First step for summer cool, stay in the shade whenever possible. If you have a baby less than six months old, you should avoid exposure completely. If you have to be out in the…Read the full article.

For a new mother, I find the best gifts are those have been helpful or meaningful to the giver. When you tell a new parent “I found this helpful when my first baby was born” or “I wish I had this when I was starting out,” the gift is far more than a consumer product…Read the full article.