Lets see you babywearing !

[nypage1981]

HT, its very inspiring what you plan to do. I love to picture women everywhere thinking of babywearing as cool and beautiful.

I am considered very alternative with my cloth diapers and babywearing amongst my peers, but am spreading the cloth interest. This town isnt that diverse, but quite a "hippie" town so babywearing shouldnt be such a foreign thing here!
(NOT saying that all or only hippies wear babies, or that we are hippies for wearing babies!)

 

[katerdid]

Absolutely lovely plan, Hot Tea!! You have the most gorgeous photo's - I really think you could gather a lot of followers. That's what caught me at first really. I stumbled across a blog of a lady who traveled across country and had carried her little girl up in wovens. Just seeing that made me really interested and hopefully you'll be able to inspire like that on a large scale!

 

[Willo]

I'm in Ireland. However I'm a bit camera shy but would consider it as it is so positive what you want to do. It would be so good to get a big group all baby wearing in the one place.

Where I live you don't tend to see too many people baby wearing and I think most people see it as an alternative thing. Would be nice to show how diverse the baby wearing community truly is.

 

[Rmar]

https://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t305/rikim_m/3d330e84.jpg
I'm falling in love with Nadia. I came for the colour and stayed for the fringe and thinness.

 

[Tulip]

Im not far from London, HT! There's a great BW community over here (centred around naturalmamas.co.uk) though it isn't considered mainstream unless you're using a mainstream carrier or better known SSC - if you're in the street wrapping your child, you're generally considered to have two heads!

South East girls, there's a Spring Sling Show in St Pancras on 24th March with a raffle FULL of slings - PM me if you want details, I'll try and start a thread about it later.

 

[JellyBeann]

i have no family on my side, but my partner is dutch and grew up in Amsterdam. All his family lives there still. It's work related, as well as We want to raise our children very cultured. Vancouver island doesn't offer that in the slightest. It's beautiful, but it is very flat in every other way but nature.

The move enables me to be a SAHM - I will be wandering the continent. I want to start up a babywearing group that I can do meetups all over. I plan on trying to meet some people over in england. It could easly be a day trip by plane.

Come to Pembrokeshire, it's beautiful...and I live here lol...we're in Wales, pretty much as far into Wales as you can go without falling in the sea!!

I just want to make babywearing look more "cool", accessible, etc. More modern and more fashionable. Basically, I want to attract on a shallow level, so that after that attention has been captured people will start to listen to my message. Seems a bit immoral, but I LOVE babywearing just because it is the one time I feel GORGEOUS. Just because it is self expression - this is what Istand for, you know? Closeness, love, nature. I feel that message needs to be pushed.

Who here is in the EU? Who here would be interested in joining in in some way? I think it would be SO cool to go to a huge city like London or Amsterdam with a group of babywearing mamas and take high resolution images. Make it a really modern, interesting meet. I would want to do somelive stream video.

My partner is actually a web designer and programmer so he can set me up with the website etc, make it look nice. He also works in advertisement so he can make it appealing.

I'd join!! Definitely be up for that!!! It sounds AMAZING!!

 

[JellyBeann]

Oh, ad they are:

1) Ellevil Cotton Zara
2) Girasol Xela's Rainbow

 

[Thumper]

I second Pembrokeshire being utterly gorgeous. Most of Wales is though.

I am now off to search for that Giirasol

 

[Snuffy]

A friend has kindly offered to lend me one of her wovens to have a try of

 

[21p1eco]

Us at Pennywell farm today in our babyhawk mei tai, excuse the picture of me i look awful as im very tired today.

https://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac284/21p1eco/e5d84b9b.jpg

 

[StarlitHome]

You ladies with your gorgeous wovens have got me looking around now... Unfortunately I don't think wovens are very common here so the chances of me finding a good-priced used one are slim-to-none.
Someone back me up here - I posted a link to a lovely woven wrap on my FB and someone said "Just get a Moby/Sleepy wrap, they're much cheaper" BUT I was pretty sure that the stretchy wraps are not safe for bigger/older babies and certainly not for back-carries? I had a Moby but sold it and got a Mei Tai when my daughter hit 15 pounds - she's now 20 pounds.

 

[sun]

Though you can technically use a stretchy wrap for heavier babies as long as they are on the front, it gets uncomfortable as they get bigger. The wrap ends up sagging and needing readjusting, etc...

So I would definitely recommend a woven wrap if you can get your hands on one. Check out the used wraps on The Baby Wearer. They are in the US and so shipping shouldn't be too much xx

 

[booda]

I had to give up my moby about a month ago, LO was about 15lbs then......he just kept sagging and if i spent more than 20mins i'd have to take it off and re-tie it which is a pain in the arse. It was a godsend when he was <14lbs though, for popping him in and out

I think victoria sling lady does non-stretchy wraps, ill go check

Yes, here! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victoria...?pt=UK_Baby_Carriers&var=&hash=item5f78c22908

dont think they're woven but they're not stretchy like moby...

 

[nypage1981]

Yep, agreed with them on the Moby wrap. Its fine for newborn but now at 18 lbs Kian is too big. Although for some reason he likes it now, hated it when he could be supported by it! So I still use it until ive decided on a better wrap, but its no good for hands free anymore, I still kind of hold him he is just too big for it. Would not think back carry with Moby....he can arch back and pretty much be out of the thing...

 

[Arcanegirl]

Daddywearing in our new Boba
https://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/karoline1246/5cb580e4.jpg

and me trying it up under bump (sorry about the jammies ) Im soo happy I can toddler wear again, Ive missed it!
https://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/karoline1246/eea63463.jpg

 

[loopy82]

Hot tea, I'm in! I'm setting up a sling library and meet in NW England, you can see the website here: https://bdslinglibrary.com and the fb page in my sig x

 

[Tulip]

Daddywearing in the ergo

https://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m602/tulip1uk/Dillon%201%20year/0cb0c219.jpg

 

[sun]

Tulip - OOH I like that ergo colour! Haven't seen it before.

Love it AG!

I am loving this woven wrap - it is gorgeous and I can carry Pip for hours. She slept in it for 4h the other day. Here's another pic of it - I messed with the pic on photoshop a bit to try and get the real colours of the wrap to show! It's beautiful, so comfy and super easy to wrap!

 

[Thumper]

AG that looks great. It looks like it fits nicely around your lovely bump

Tulip- we have that Ergo too. It's brilliant.

 

[nypage1981]

Here's Kian ridin dirty in Robin..(my carrier's name, really original since its a Robins Nest BB). I look like crap because I didn't feel like showering today. Hey, we all have our days.

Anyways, I am really shopping hard for a wrap and was thinking I need something breathable for summer because Kian is a heater. Which is fine for us in the MN winter cold.but not summer...Anyone have any opinions on Vatnai? Or Storch Leo?