Baby Wearing Resources

General Baby Wearing Information

• NINO - NineInNineOut is a nonprofit babywearing organization to promote babywearing by educating the general public about its benefits.
  
• Mamatoto - a site dedicated to babywearing, even (especially!) with a SPOC (simple piece of cloth).
  
• Peau-a-Peau.be is a French language website maintained by a Belgian non-profit baby wearing organization. The stated goals of the non-profit association that runs this site include to promote breastfeeding, baby-carrying, infant massage, and the discovery of one's child. They also sell slings and run programs in Belgium to teach parents how to carry their children. [submitted and translation by Elizabeth C.]
  
• TheBabyWearer.com is a wonderful website dedicated to reviews, pictures, links, and discussion about baby wearing.
  
• Baby Carriers FAQ is an old site (no longer updated) that still contains lots of good information about baby wearing and various types of baby carriers.
  
• Kelly's AP has lots of information, articles, and links about baby slings.
  
• Portare I Piccoli (Loosely translated: carry the little ones) - A baby wearing informational site in Italiano. Sapere perché e come portare bambini piccoli.
  
• Orange Mama - kids are fun - Russian site on attachment parenting, including babywearing, cosleeping, mothering at the breast and more. With photogalleries on breastfeeding and babywearing.

Baby Sling & Baby Carrier Sewing Instructions

• Reverend Jan's Happy Athiest Page - Jan has been working hard to add patterns (free!) for traditional style baby carriers. (Click on Baby Crafts in the left menu.)
  
• Kelly's AP has links to many different patterns for sewing your own baby sling.

Baby Sling & Baby Carrier Wearing Instructions

• Videos with Wraparoung instructions - from Finland (Baby Idea), again! [submitted by Julia C.]
  
• 13 Wraparound carrier instructions - from Finland. Don't worry about the language problem, there are lots of pictures of wraps that you probably haven't thought of, yet! Several for newborns, too. Just click on each word next to the folders.
  
• Peppermint.com wearing instructions for various baby slings and baby carriers - all in one place!
  
• Kelly's AP

Traditional Baby Slings and Baby Carriers on the web
(I will be continually adding links to websites where I find examples or information about traditional ways of carrying babies and children around the world. I would love to know if you have links that should be here, or if you know of sources for any of these carriers. Also, we have an email discussion group dedicated to traditional baby carriers. Join and share! Traditional Baby Carriers)

Welsh Shawl:

• 19th century photograph. Bottom of page.
• Statue shown in photograph. [submitted by Toddy E.]
• Several pictures and a description of the Welsh method. [Thanks, Toddy!]

Swedish Backpack:

• Dalarna, a northern province in Sweden, held onto traditions from Viking times and earlier, longer than any other part of Sweden. Women played an important role in this culture - they hade voting rights, ownership rights and kept their last names in marriage. Women carried their children in a "bog" - an old word that is today lives on in the English word "bag". It was made of leather that was shaped into a rounded bag. The edges were cut into various traditional patterns and the straps often had sewn on woven bands, that also displayed traditional patterns. The baby would be wrapped in something warm, then placed in the bog so that their right side was always against the person who carried them. [website and translation courtesy of Cecilia, whose dad grew up in Dalarna, and he remembers children being carried all the time! - thank you, Cecilia!]

Inuit Amautik:

• A 7th grade English class project. Look about halfway down the page.
• Same class, different picture. Bottom of page. Loose translation: "it's heavy for the mothers, but all babies love being carried like this." [submitted by Beth M.]
• Nunavut Regional Virtual Heritage Fair Project. [submitted by Maura]

Chinese & Viet Namese Mei Tai (Guobei):

• Bai Minority Group from Yunnan Province, China
• Black Hmong, Vietnam
• Yunnan Province, China

Indonesian "Hard Seat" Carriers (as opposed to selendangs):

• Dyak, from Kalimantan
• Borneo ( Look at the bottom of the page.)
• "Ancient glass beads and amulets of bear-claws or leopard's fangs add to the spirtual protection of the baby carried within." Borneo, Kayan and Kenyah Tribes

American Indian Cradle Board:

• Kiowa and Comanche Baby Carriers museum exhibit [submitted by Billie-Jo G.]
• Department of the Interior Museum Exhibit. Click on "baby carriers" at the bottom right. The detail page takes a long time to load. [submitted by Billie-Jo G.]

Mexican Rebozo:

• The Rebozo Way Project has done much valuable work in promoting traditional baby carrying.
  [submitted by Susie Q.]

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