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Myth-busting Babywearing
Friday 10 May 2013
Piper was my second child, but she was the first one I used a Hug-a-Bub to babyw...
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Monday 04 Mar 2013
"I found it so easy to use and after a few times found I could put it on in a ...
Raising Will on Babywearing with Hugabub
Tuesday 06 Nov 2012
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Blog Archive October 2010

Never before have parents had access to so much baby STUFF. In addition to the usual department stores and baby shops carrying baby equipment, we have now witnessed the emergence of warehouse-sized "baby superstores" packed full to the ceiling with every imaginable gadget for the new parent.

From a wide variety of elaborate cribs, to forty different types of bottles and nipples, to the combination stroller/car seat/cradle/carriers that do everything but give birth foryou, parents are left with the impression that there must be an awful lot of equipment that you simply 'must have' in order to properly welcome and care for a baby.

Baby-carrying provides the elements of pressure, motion, pleasure, warmth, security, sound that is essential to the development of the vestibular nervous system. Baby-carrying provides constant vestibular stimulation necessary to the development of motor skills in infants and calming deep-pressure touch and kinaesthetic stimulation.

Carrying infants lowers the level of stress hormones and adrenalin circulating in the blood stream of the infant.

Blog Archive October 2010

Why Isn't Babywearing Widely Promoted?

43 reasons to carry your baby

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