Comments on: Sharing the Love: Wearing Other People’s Children http://baby-carriers-downunder.com/2009/04/17/sharing-the-love-wearing-other-peoples-children/ Helping Aussie and Kiwi parents find the best baby carriers for their needs ...and blogging about it! Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sally http://baby-carriers-downunder.com/2009/04/17/sharing-the-love-wearing-other-peoples-children/comment-page-1/#comment-16171 Sally Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:52:09 +0000 http://www.baby-carriers-downunder.com/?p=738#comment-16171 While I have only worn my DD. My DD has been worn by me, DH, my mum and my dad without any fuss from anyone. While I have only worn my DD. My DD has been worn by me, DH, my mum and my dad without any fuss from anyone.

]]> By: May: Newborn Babywearing Month! | Baby Carriers Downunder http://baby-carriers-downunder.com/2009/04/17/sharing-the-love-wearing-other-peoples-children/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 May: Newborn Babywearing Month! | Baby Carriers Downunder Fri, 01 May 2009 10:31:06 +0000 http://www.baby-carriers-downunder.com/?p=738#comment-2926 [...] pretty quickly here at BCD blog. There was the Carnival of Breastfeeding, we shared the love in words and pictures and I confessed my addiction to FSOT. We paid homage to Douglas Adams and learnt how [...] [...] pretty quickly here at BCD blog. There was the Carnival of Breastfeeding, we shared the love in words and pictures and I confessed my addiction to FSOT. We paid homage to Douglas Adams and learnt how [...]

]]> By: Emma Davidson http://baby-carriers-downunder.com/2009/04/17/sharing-the-love-wearing-other-peoples-children/comment-page-1/#comment-2489 Emma Davidson Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:57:27 +0000 http://www.baby-carriers-downunder.com/?p=738#comment-2489 When my first baby turned five months old, she spent one day a week with my in-laws for babysitting while I worked. My mother-in-law carried her in a mei tai, and it made life much easier for her. I always felt a bit jealous, because my daughter didn't like being carried by me in the mei tai (she didn't like having her face on my chest unless I was feeding her). But all in all, I knew she was happy being babysat. When my second baby turned five months old, she started childcare. Tricky, because she wouldn't drink from a cup or bottle and sometimes had to wait quite a while before I could get there to breastfeed. I used to leave a favourite sling at the childcare centre, and often arrived to find my favourite childcarer carrying her in the sling. She would still be hungry, but chilled out as long as she was in the sling. Even after she stopped needing the sling to be carried, her child carers used it in her cot as a sleep comforter. I think slings are a great way to help out babysitters, especially if they've got more than one child in their care or the baby is used to being soothed by breastfeeding. When my first baby turned five months old, she spent one day a week with my in-laws for babysitting while I worked. My mother-in-law carried her in a mei tai, and it made life much easier for her. I always felt a bit jealous, because my daughter didn’t like being carried by me in the mei tai (she didn’t like having her face on my chest unless I was feeding her). But all in all, I knew she was happy being babysat.

When my second baby turned five months old, she started childcare. Tricky, because she wouldn’t drink from a cup or bottle and sometimes had to wait quite a while before I could get there to breastfeed. I used to leave a favourite sling at the childcare centre, and often arrived to find my favourite childcarer carrying her in the sling. She would still be hungry, but chilled out as long as she was in the sling. Even after she stopped needing the sling to be carried, her child carers used it in her cot as a sleep comforter.

I think slings are a great way to help out babysitters, especially if they’ve got more than one child in their care or the baby is used to being soothed by breastfeeding.

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