It happens to any mom of two (or more) little ones. You bring a carrier for the baby and figure the toddler can hoof it. After all, she knows how, right? And for a while, all goes well, until your toddler starts whining about how tired she is, and you’re still a long ways from [...]
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Who doesn’t love to check out what celebrity parents are doing? Whether to gawk, criticize or just get up-to-date on the latest trends, many of us love to check out what the current it-girls, boys, men and women are doing. And has many recent articles have noted, celebrities are definitely getting into babywearing! Babywearing fans [...]
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It was bound to happen: ERGO baby carriers are so successful and so popular and yes, so excellent, that someone out there has decided they are worth knocking off. Apparently, Chinese manufacturers have gotten hold of the label and other specs and are selling the products (presumably at a cut rate) to unsuspecting buyers. At [...]
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First of all, happy Mother’s Day! With all the hubbub lately about Consumer Reports knocking all baby slings as unsafe, it seems like a good time to make a few remarks about safely using your baby carrier. Although it drives me crazy when people knock baby carrier usage without knowing much about it (like CR [...]
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Enough people have responded to the Consumer Reports article “5 Products Not to Buy for your Baby” (see my blog post about it here) that they were motivated to write a followup post. I was so interested in this, because apparently (according to this article in the New York Times), CR almost never gets this [...]
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I finally found a picture of Kitty Walker (on the show Brothers and Sisters) wearing her brown Maya Wrap baby sling. Maya Wraps are great ring slings for beginners – easy to use, hard to screw up, very comfy. And so pretty, too! A few comments on how she is wearing the sling. First of [...]
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I have always been a Consumer Reports fan. I’ve used their recommendations to buy washing machines, dishwashers and car seats. I’ve always thought of them as responsible and thorough, and liked the fact that they had tested all of the items they reviewed (unlike say a lot of magazines who recommend items that are paid [...]
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