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Managing Baby Tension + How It Affects Your Baby's Reaction to Babywearing

Learn how to resolve baby tension in babywearing with our expert tips on positioning, fit, and meeting your baby's needs for a more comfortable experience.

Babywearing After a C-Section: Your Guide to Healing Through Connection

Explore how babywearing after a C-section can enhance mobility and promote healing, ensuring a seamless transition to adding a new member to the family.

Ask the OT: How Do I Support My Pelvic Floor While Babywearing?

Support your pelvic floor with good posture, gentle movement, therapy, and pelvic floor-friendly carriers like ring slings, wraps, meh dais, the Sprout, and Larks.

A Gentle, OT-Led Approach to Babywearing for Postpartum Recovery

Babywearing can support postpartum recovery. Introduce it gradually as a bonding tool. Trust your body’s signals, adjust as you heal, and care for yourself too.

Ask the OT: How Can I Prevent Back Pain While Babywearing?

If babywearing causes back pain, fix your fit. Tighten slack and check your carrier positioning. Listen to your body and prioritize your own safety and comfort.

Ask the OT: How Do I Get My Older Baby to Want to be Worn?

If your older baby resists babywearing, stay calm, check their needs, make it fun, respect their autonomy, and focus on connection—it's a shared experience.

What is EMDR and How Can it Help New Parents’ Mental Health?

EMDR helps to process trauma, reduce stress, and manage anxiety using bilateral stimulation. It promotes healing, emotional well-being, and self-empowerment.

Are Baby Carriers Considered Baby Containers?

Anytime I mention babywearing as a means to avoid excessive container device usage I immediately get asked the same question: Doesn't a baby carrier contain a...

Feature Friday: Pelvic Floor Therapy, Fertility + More with Dr. Juicy Jackie

Our blog today features the incredible Dr. Juicy Jackie, known for her fun and ✨ juicy ✨ tips on instagram! Jackie is a pelvic floor therapist, fertility and preconception expert doing 1 on ...

Tummy Time and Babywearing

Learn how babywearing plays a roll in tummy time and hear from an expert Pediatric Physical Therapist.