Category: Babies

• From Baby Toting to Babywearing

  

  Dr. Sears claims credit for coining the phrase ‘Babywearing’ in the 1980’s but did you know interest in infant carrier cultures had been growing in popularity since the 1950’s?

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 27, 2016

  Babies, Blog

  20th century, A Raisin in the Sun, adaptations, Ann Moore, baby boom, baby seat, babywearing, CBC, Dr. William Sears, Elizabeth Taylor, film, Gerry Baby, graco, harness carrier, history, innovations, Ivory Snow, Lorraine Hansberry, North America, P&G, plastic carriers, popular culture, Rayner Garner, reclining baby seats, retro tv, ring sling, snugli, Spencer Tracy, stigma, The Baby Sling, UC Magazine, vintage commercials

• Medieval Babywearing | European Infant Carriers

  

  With the talk of which culture has the exclusive rights to this or that, some have wondered if people of European descent should use infant carriers at all. To which I can only groan (and share this post).

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 27, 2015

  Babies, Blog

  art history, babywearing, baskets, beggars, Belgium, Berne, Billedet Hedder, BNF, Bodleian, breastfeeding, carrying, cradle, cradle boards, England, europe, Flight into Egypt, France, Giotto di Bondone, Gypsies, hands free nursing, Hare, hip carry, horses, infant carrier, Italy, Jehan de Grise of Flanders, Jesus, Lucas Van Leyden, Maestro di Campli, middle ages, Morgan Library, Pontificial of Guillaume Durand, Poodles, religious iconography, Romance of Alexander, sling, socioeconomics, Speculum Historiale, Speizer Chronicle, spocs, St. Christopher, swaddling, Torture of Jewish Mothers, Twins, Voeux De Paon, Westminster Psalter, wraps

• Birth and Carriers in Indonesia

  

  Learn how the peoples of Indonesia incorporate their infant carriers into their postpartum traditions.

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2015

  Babies, Birth, Blog

  ancestors, Aspects of Baby Wrappings, Beloved Burden, Birth, color, dukun bayi, East Nussa, folding, gendhongan, generational, I.C. Van Hout, indigo, Indonesia, Java, kain panjang, lotus birth, Luwu, matrilineal, midwife, N.U. Russell, newborn, pattern, pipitan, placenta, public hair, putihan, R. Heringa, rituals, sarrong, sayut, selendang, South Sulawesi, status, tapih ciyut, tapih wijar, wengko mole

• The Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  Learn more about Alma Gottlieb’s book “The Afterlife is Where We Come From” on the culture of infancy involving reincarnation and carrying among the Beng.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Blog

  Africa, allomother, alloparenting, alma gottlieb, anthropology, attachment, baby carrier, babysitter, babywearing, back carry, bath time, Beng, child care, children, culture, dorsal carry, EC, emotional health, ethnography, Gottlieb, infant carriers, infant potty training, Ivory Coast, khanga, mothers, napping, parenting, poop, proximal care, reincarnation, torso carry, west africa, working mom