Babywearing Educational Blog

Fall Babywearing: Loving your Stretchy Wrap for Fall Outings and Family Visits!

By: wrappingrachel November 17, 2018December 6, 2018

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It’s finally fall! The weather is cooler and the air is crisp! There are pumpkin patches to visit, forest trails to hike, shopping trips to do, and fun family dinners to attend! Your stretchy wrap (Moby, Boba, Solly, etc) can be a wonderful tool for getting out and enjoying the fall with your baby! A…

Choosing a Baby Carrier

By: wrappingrachel November 15, 2018May 6, 2019

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What baby carrier is the best for you and your baby? What carrier should you buy? How do you narrow down the options and choose one? This post will help you choose the best baby carrier for you and your baby! Most blog posts like this tell you what carrier is the best, maybe even…

Poppable Woven Wrap Carries for Rainy, Cold Days

By: wrappingrachel November 15, 2018May 6, 2019

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It’s cold and rainy outside! This fall weather is the best for babywearing (no sweating, yay!), but not that fun for parking lot wrapping. While you absolutely can parking lot wrap in the rain without getting your tails dirty, it’s not that fun standing in the rain on a cold day! Poppable woven wrap carries…

Why Visiting a Babywearing Group or Educator Beats a YouTube Video Any Day

By: wrappingrachel November 11, 2018December 7, 2018

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Alright guys, I’ve got to tell you a secret. Visiting your local group, taking a class, or buying a consult from your local babywearing educator beats watching a YouTube video any day. It’s the number one thing I hear when I teach classes: “I keep playing the video, hitting pause, and then trying the steps,…

Positioning your Newborn Baby in a Baby Carrier

By: wrappingrachel November 9, 2018December 7, 2018

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How do you position your newborn baby in your baby carrier? Your baby already knows what to do! When you hold your newborn to your chest, your baby will likely naturally take the perfect position. This post will discuss optimal newborn positioning in a baby carrier and show you images of optimal positioning in each…

Babywearing Safety

By: wrappingrachel November 9, 2018December 7, 2018

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The safest place for your baby being held by a loving caregiver. With your baby securely in a baby carrier, you can easily monitor your baby, notice your baby’s cues, and sniff their sweet little head. Babywearing is safe and beneficial to both you and your baby. This post will show you how to check…

Find a Babywearing Group or Educator Near You!

By: wrappingrachel November 6, 2018April 27, 2019

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If you’re just getting started with babywearing or are ready to learn a new skill, it can really help to find some in-person babywearing help! This list will help you find a babywearing group or babywearing educator near you. There are babywearing educators and babywearing groups all over the world that can work with you…

How to do Back Carries in a Woven Wrap (for beginners)

By: wrappingrachel October 24, 2018December 7, 2018

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Using a woven wrap to do a back carry can be an incredibly comfortable, versatile, and beautiful way to carry your baby! In this post, you will find beginner back carrying tutorials, tutorials for getting baby onto your back, and pro tips for starting back wrapping. Are You Ready to Begin Back Wrapping? To…

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Positioning your Older Baby or Toddler in your Baby Carrier

By: wrappingrachel October 8, 2018December 7, 2018

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How do you position your older baby or toddler in your baby carrier? Here’s the good news! Your baby already knows what to do. Pick up your baby and notice how your baby likes to be held. When you hold your older baby baby on your front or hip, your baby probably: Likes to be…

Wrap Pass Glossary

By: wrappingrachel September 29, 2018December 4, 2018

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All woven wrap carries can be broken down into different types of passes. Knowing the names of the passes can help you learn new carries more easily. It can also help you adapt carries you already know to make them suit your needs better. This blog post will show you the main types of passes…

How to do Hip Carries in a Woven Wrap

By: wrappingrachel September 3, 2018December 7, 2018

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Hip carries are my favorite for a baby who wants to see all around! In a hip carry, a baby can see in front of you, behind you, and watch your face and hands while you are talking or signing to them! You can do a ton of different hip carries with a woven wrap!…

How to do Front Carries in a Woven Wrap

By: wrappingrachel September 1, 2018December 7, 2018

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Woven wraps are beautiful and versatile! You can do a ton of different carries with woven wraps! Here are resources for learning front carries in your woven wrap. They are organized by the size wrap that they need. If you are a wrap beginner, start with this post. Base Size Woven Wrap Front Carries These…

How to Use a Woven Wrap for Beginners

By: wrappingrachel August 31, 2018May 6, 2019

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Woven wraps are beautiful, versatile, and comfortable! This resource will help you with selecting a wrap and learning a few beginner carries. We will go over beginner woven wrapping tips and woven wrap terminology. Wrap Sizing One thing that people find confusing about wraps is that they come in different sizes. Different sizes can be…

How to Use a Meh Dai

By: wrappingrachel August 31, 2018December 7, 2018

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Do you have a Meh Dai that you’d like to learn to use? A Meh dai does a very comfortable front, hip, or back carry and is pretty quick to put on. This post will cover how to use your meh dai in a front carry, newborn front carry, hip carry, and back carry. Front…

How to Use a Soft Structured Carrier

By: wrappingrachel August 30, 2018December 7, 2018

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This post includes tutorials to help you learn to how to use your soft structured carrier (Tula, Ergo, Kinderpack, Boba, Beco, etc) for a front carry, hip carry, and back carry. There are so many brands of Soft Structured Carriers and each come with their own tips and instructions. Before using your carrier, be sure…

How to Use a Pouch Sling

By: wrappingrachel August 30, 2018December 7, 2018

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Pouch Slings are wonderful! They fold up tiny and are so convenient to bring along for a quick carry! A pouch sling can work well from newborn to toddler! With a newborn, a pouch sling does a lovely front carry. With an older baby or toddler who wants to walk or wants to be up…

How to Use a Ring Sling

By: wrappingrachel August 30, 2018January 3, 2019

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Do you have a ring sling you’d like to learn to use? This post includes tutorials and resources that will help you love your ring sling from day one! How to Thread your Ring Sling The first thing you need to learn to do is thread your ring sling. Getting the threading set is really…

Wrapper’s Cheat Sheet

By: wrappingrachel August 23, 2018November 11, 2018

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Once you know all of the types of passes that are used in wrap carries, you can easily learn new carries or refresh your knowledge of a carry you’ve learned a while ago, but have forgotten. Visit my Wrap Pass Glossary to learn all of the pass types. Here we will show you how the passes…

Photo-Tutorial: Short Cross Carry with a Ring

By: wrappingrachel July 16, 2018November 27, 2018

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This photo-tutorial will show how to tie Short Cross Carry with a sling ring. This carry takes a wrap can be done in a wrap that is your base size minus two. Short Cross Carry is a quick and easy poppable carry (a carry you can pre-tie and pop baby in and out of as…

Front Cross Carry Photo-Tutorial

By: wrappingrachel May 1, 2018November 11, 2018

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Front Cross Carry is one of my favorite woven wrap carries. First, it can be completely pre-tied and your baby can be easily popped in and out of the wrap as many times as needed. This is awesome especially for babies or toddlers who like to be up and down. Second, it ties in the…