What is Babywearing?

Babywearing is a word that is used to describe the practice of using a carrier of some kind to carry your child on your body. This is a practice that has been in use for generations in many cultures throughout the world. Babywearing has deep roots with different styles of carrier in many indigenous and traditional practices. What we practice in the western world as babywearing today owes a deep debt to these cultures as our carriers and carrying styles are modeled after traditional methods. Due to the fact that this site is run by a white educator in the United States, the site will focus on these western style baby carrying methods and not traditional carrying methods. Please if you are interested in connecting to your own traditional babywearing culture, seek out educators from that culture to correctly teach you your traditional practices. If you feel overwhelmed at the amount of information there is on babywearing and baby carriers - you are NOT alone! There are so many models and brands available that it can be difficult to sort through what is the best solution for yourself. At the time of this writing, we are in the middle of a deep pandemic - so the solution that has previously been so helpful to babywearers of the local lending library is not really accessible. However, I do still truly believe that local babywearing meetings with hands on help and carriers to try on are the best way to narrow down your options. With that not being currently accessible, and with many babywearing groups unfortunately closing due to a variety of reasons, I am here to help.