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Baby-Wearing
What is "Baby-Wearing"?
It has been said that all a mother needs to care for her baby are her arms, her breasts, and her sling. I couldn't agree more! I can't imagine how I ever managed to lug around that big infant seat 5 years ago. Everywhere I went, there it was with me, complicating everything. Especially those times when my daughter refused to humor me by staying in it!
There was a lot of buzz getting started then about all the benefits of baby massage. It had finally been proven that being in physical contact with your baby created physiological benefits! Go figure. Again, tribal mothers had been doing the very best all along before modern science scared us into believing that our children would be spoiled brats if we gave them too much love and affection. These findings have helped to further validate the attachment parenting philosophy.
Babies were not meant to be bundled. Babies were made to be carried by their mothers. And mothers' hips were made to carry her babies! Newborns were not designed with the ability to regulate their own heat because it was God's intention for it to be regulated by the mother.
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