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FREE A RIDE ON MOTHERS BACK: A DAY OF BABY CARRYING AROUND THE WORLD PDF Emery Bernhard,Durga Bernhard | 40 pages | 01 Sep 1996 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | 9780152008703 | English | Boston, United States Babywearing - Wikipedia Babywearing is the practice of wearing or carrying a baby in a sling or in another form of carrier. Babywearing has been practiced for centuries around the world. In the industrialized world, babywearing has gained popularity in recent decades. Part of the reason for this shift is due to the influence of advocates of attachment parenting. Babywearing is a form of baby transport which can be enjoyed for as long as mutually desired, often until toddlerhood and beyond. William Searsa pediatriciancoined the phrase attachment parenting. One of Sears' principles of attachment parenting is babywearing and he attributes many benefits to babywearing and the in-arms style of parenting. Kangaroo carein which the baby's bare body rests against the parent's bare chest, with or without a baby sling, has shown clear benefits to premature and ill infants. Studies of parent-child attachment, parental satisfaction and infant crying point A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World babywearing as a satisfactory arrangement for both parents and baby. Baby carriers and slings help increase the number of hours a day an infant is held, and proponents believe that the more a baby is held, the less the baby cries. The babies are allowed to nurse freely, and are passed from one woman or girl to another to be carried throughout the day. Yet, the Munduruku babies cry very frequently despite being carried all day. Babywearing allows the wearer to have two free hands to accomplish tasks such as laundry while caring for the baby's need to be held or be breastfed. Babywearing offers a safer alternative to placing a car seat on top of a shopping cart. It also allows children to be involved in social interactions and to see their surroundings as an adult would. It follows that many sling and soft carrier users have found that A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World their infant is much easier on the back and shoulders than lugging them in a car A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World. The weight of the child is spread more evenly across the upper body and they don't have to struggle with a bulky, hard and awkward car seat. There are many different types of carriers available to purchase or swap, and they can also easily and cheaply be made by the parent or caregiver, also laws in the United States have now limited the legality of manufacturing carriers and slings. Wraps, slings, mei tais, and soft structured carriers with buckles also referred to as SSCs make up the vast majority of carriers. In the western world, carriers can also be seen as a fashion statement and be worn as part of an outfit. Breastfeeding and babywearing often go hand in hand. Many baby slings and other carriers offer mothers privacy and for many mothers, the option of nursing hands-free while tending to other activities or A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World chores. Not all mothers can nurse hands-free in a baby carrier. Large-breasted mothers and mothers of small or hypotonic infants may need to support the breast or help maintain proper positioning of the baby's head or body. Even so, a properly adjusted baby carrier can help reduce arm strain and allow a mother more freedom of movement while nursing, even if it does not allow her to be completely hands-free. Babywearing can help premature babies and babies who are slow weight gainers to gain weight at a faster rate. Not all parents find breastfeeding in a sling or carrier easy. It is important, before attempting to breastfeed in a carrier, to first master the art of breastfeeding without a carrier. Latch and position are vital, and it is important to establish these first before adding a carrier to the mix. Where breastfeeding difficulties exist, babywearing can simplify the other tasks of parenting by allowing a parent free hands to deal with breastpumps, bottles and other supplementation devices. Some parents prefer, even with the best carriers, to take time out and sit down to nurse a baby. Some babies may reflexively clamp down when nursing while a parent moves around, so nursing while babywearing is not always entirely comfortable. Individual experience will vary radically not A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World from parent to parent, but also from baby to baby, even within the same family. Some babies nurse very well in slings and carriers, others do not. Where breastfeeding is not possible, babywearing can aid attachment by encouraging closeness during bottle feeding. Daycare providers and foster parents often find that babywearing allows them to better meet the needs of multiple children by freeing hands during times when babies need to be held. This can be done with twins or with two children of different ages, for all the reasons of practicality and enjoyment stated above. Babywearing is celebrated around the world each year during the annual International Babywearing Week. Many countries have formed their own celebrations that run alongside this event such as Australian Babywearing Week. As with any physical activity, there are certain safety precautions which must be considered in babywearing. Most are common sense, but the guidelines are particularly important to remember when carrying a newborn baby that has limited head control. The question has been raised as to whether or not babywearing is safe with respect to falls. In the case of a caregiver accidentally tripping or falling while wearing a baby, the wearer's arms would likely be free to break the fall, while the child remained relatively safe close to the carer's center of gravity. If the child was being A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World 'in arms' without a carrier, the likelihood of injury would be much higher due to the impossibility of the carer being able to both hold the child safely and protect themselves from injury. Exercise with babies in slings and carriers is now a growing way of mothers being able to undertake exercise and movement-based classes with their babies. It has been reported to increase mother-child bonding through physiological and neurological pathways. It is important to find a safe and qualified provider who can ensure the safety of the mother and the baby in the particular exercise class. Babywearing yoga is particularly popular as it does not involve bouncing and moving fast whilst carrying baby in slings. Further reading on the subject of babywearing safety can be widely found. The popularity of baby wearing has brought with it an explosion of types and brands of baby carriers, such as the woven wrap, stretchy wrap, ring sling, mei tai, pouch carrier, soft structured carrier, and backpack baby carrier. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Play media. Pharmasoft Publishing. What Comforts a Baby? In Babywatching pp New York: Crown Publishers Inc. The Crying Baby. Penguin Books. Does Infant Carrying Promote Attachment? Child Development, Vol. Journal of Biomechanics. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, The Guardian. Retrieved Women of the Forest. Columbia University Press. The premature neonate's response to handling. Journal of the American Nursing Association, I. Effects of handling on the subsequent development of premature infants. Developmental Psychology, 1 6. Archived from the original on Baby Centre. September Categories : Babywearing Baby products Child safety. Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links CS1 maint: archived copy as title Commons category link is on Wikidata Articles containing video clips. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baby slings. The Benefits of Baby Carrying - The Natural Child Project Being carried or worn in an upright position with proper leg support is not only developmentally sound but often preferable to mothers and babies alike. Europe seems to host the greatest number of pediatricians who recommend that, in order to avoid pressure on their underdeveloped bodies, newborns and infants should lie flat on their backs in a stroller and not be carried. Yet, laying a young infant on his back alone in a stroller is actually physically and emotionally stressful, and can be developmentally inhibiting. Upright carrying optimizes the physical, emotional and intellectual growth of your baby. Our spines are not perfectly straight, even though they may appear so from the front or back. When you look at a person from the side, four slight curves are visible, forming an elongated S shape. These curves help keep us flexible and balanced. They also help absorb stresses placed on our bodies through our daily activities, such as walking, running and jumping. We weren't born with these curves. Normal curves of the spine develop gradually, as a means of adapting A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World gravity. At birth, babies are in a A Ride on Mothers Back: A Day of Baby Carrying Around the World of flexion, still curled up, with their spines in a natural, long C-shaped convex curve. At first, a baby does not have the strength to hold his head up, nor the balancing curves in his spine to do so.