Tag: proximal care

• The Inuit Amauti

  

  It’s difficult to make sure baby stays warm in the winter but imagine living in the arctic full time. Learn how the Inuit have combined baby carrier and coat to keep themselves and their babies warm.

  Aradia Wyndham

  November 14, 2018

  Babies, Blog

  airways, amauti, arctic, babywearing, Baffin Island, body heat, breastfeeding, Canada, climate, cold, cooperation, culture, EC, eskimo, First Nations, history, infant carrier, Inuit, naked, nanook, newborn, nomadic, Nunavut, parka, positional asphyxiation, preschooler, Project Naming, proximal care, resources, seal, skin-to-skin, skins, swaddling, toddler, toileting, tradition, University of Alaska, wood

• Does Babywearing Really Reduce Crying?

  

  Can an infant carrier stop your baby’s cry hole? Science says… probably not. But it might make you feel better.

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 7, 2018

  Babies, Blog

  abuse, attachment, attachment parenting, baby, babywearing, biology, body language, Canada, carrying, colic, cry-it-out, crying, crying disorders, crying peak, culture, dicyclomine hydrochloride, education, excessive crying, experiment, Hunziker-Barr, Ian St. James-Roberts, infant, intervention, Italy, massage, McKenzie, media literacy, neglect, newborn, NHS, non-crying cue, parental perception, parenting, parenting styles, pharmacological interventions, proximal care, reduction in crying, reflux, research, responsiveness, science, scientific literacy, Sheridan, sleep deprivation, slings, stimulation, stress, supplemental carrying, Taubam, transport response, UK, vestibular proprioceptive stimulation, walking, Wolfe

• 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