Vintage Callum babywearing
It’s that time of year again…International Babywearing Week time! As a project of Babywearing International, International Babywearing Week is designed to promote and celebrate safe babywearing. This year’s theme – Carrying On Traditions – acknowledges the long history of babywearing. Although babywearing has increased in visibility and popularity in the US in recent years, it is certainly not a “new” thing nor is it an invention of Western culture. Women around the world have devised various means of carrying their babies while they go about their daily work. The presence of babywearing in nearly every traditional society supports the theory that this is a parenting practice that humans have engaged in since our primate ancestors lost the ability to hold on on their own; there’s even a theory put forth that argues babywearing was a human invention that helped sped along our evolutionary development into modern humans. In any case, babywearing has been around in some form or another for millennia.
To celebrate the diversity of babywearers and to acknowledge the tradition of wearing, I leave you with this lovely slideshow. Enjoy!!
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