September 20th, 2010
By Whitney
Life has become easier for American women since slings hit the market. The ability to keep your baby near you and happy while you use your hands to do other things? We’ll take it! Whether your child carrier of choice is a sling, a front carrier, or a framed backpack, make sure that you are wearing it properly.
For tips on your child’s safety, see our earlier post about babywearing. What I’m focusing on today is YOUR safety. Your back and shoulders are the only ones you have. Enduring pain in order to wear your baby could lead to more complicated back pain later.
- Take the time to make sure you are wearing your baby correctly. Google the brand name of your carrier and “how to adjust” to find tips. Do not wear your baby too high or too low.
- Consider bringing a stroller when you can. Put your diaper bag in the stroller when the baby wants to be worn so that you are not carrying a bag on one side of your body AND wearing the baby.
- Take a break – and switch carriers from time to time. Instead of putting pressure on the same spots day after day, change it up a little bit.
What other advice do you have for babywearing mamas?
Photo credit: Marketing Mommy on flickr
Tags: baby, back, Safety
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September 17th, 2010
By Whitney
Safety is clearly our number one concern when it comes to our children, and this starts from the moment we are expecting them. Parents may be totally overwhelmed with information about the various threats to their children’s well-being, so we hope that sharing this information will not result in you lying awake tonight pondering the dangers of being alive. It just seemed like a good time to do a round-up of some helpful information that you may not have come across yourself.
- Breast pump care – if you are using a pump, make sure to keep the parts clean and sterilize when possible. Bacteria in milk are no good. If you’ve tossed the manual that came with the pump, find it online and read up on how to take care of your pump properly.
- Safe sleep tips for babies. Make sure you are following all the guidelines to reduce SIDS. It’s not hard to do, but recommendations change. Here’s a recent video
- Stay up-to-date on issues surrounding BPA and other chemicals in your environment with Healthy Child Healthy World. (Liking them on Facebook makes it easy to stay informed.)
- 7 Days To A Safer Home – this step-by-step plan from UL will give peace of mind to families who follow it.
Tags: baby, mother, Safety, UL
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January 26th, 2009
We are Heather Flett and Whitney Moss and we’ll be your hostesses on this blog. We both live in Berkeley, CA and we both have two children. Since becoming moms, we struggle to balance keeping everyone safe with having fun. This blog will explore some of the many aspects of safety as we face it in our everyday lives. We hope you’ll join us and help make this blog a dialogue that we can all learn from.
We write another blog together at RookieMoms.com and just published our first book, The Rookie Mom’s Handbook.
We love hot chocolate, comfortable shoes, and the television show Lost, but that’s where the similarities end. Now we need to stop using “we” and introduce ourselves separately.
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Tags: baby, Berkeley, blog, California, children, daughter, environment, Heather, Heather Flett, mom, mother, Rookie, Rookiemoms.com, Safety, son, UL, Whitney, Whitney Moss
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