Tag: infant carriers

• Crawling is Cultural… and Unnecessary

  

  What if crawling is unnecessary? There are cultures in which babies are not allowed to crawl and are never given floor time. What effect does that have on their development?

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 24, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

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• Babywearing in Hogarth’s London

  

  Let’s talk about the baby carriers in William Hogarth’s painting, “March of the Guards to Finchley” on display at the Foundling Museum in London.

  Aradia Wyndham

  November 12, 2017

  Babies, Blog

  18th century, art history, babywearing, featured, foster care, foster children, Foundling Museum, foundlings, illegitimate children, infant carriers, London, March of the Guards to Finchley, William Hogarth

• 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

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