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While nearly every parent has heard of babyproofing their home - covering outlets, locking cabinets, and blocking stairs - a recent study by the national, nonprofit Home Safety Council reveals that many parents are unaware of important safety steps that can protect their babies from serious injuries in the home. Among the Council's recommendations in case of fire is a baby carrier that can leave parents' hands free to carry baby while crawling under smoke or descending a ladder.

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The Babywearing Institute is an online resource center for babywearing information. The site offers a wide range of resources, ranging from locally certified babywearing instructors by state, to articles on the benefits of babywearing and instructions for various types of carriers. The following article discusses the correct seating position for babies in carriers, noting that not all carriers consider this positioning in their design. ERGObaby Carriers have always promoted this Natural Sitting Position, protecting the baby's spine and hips.

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May 8, 2009, ERGObaby Founder and Designer Karin Frost was featured in a live interview on the radio show "Natural Pregnancy, Birth & Parenting" with Reverend Zoe Weston.

Ms. Frost talked briefly about the history and culture of baby carrying, then listed some of the ways babies benefit from babywearing - they cry less often and for shorter periods of time, often become more independent and secure, they remain calmer, they are more in tune with parents, and they enjoy heightened social skills. Frost also discussed Jean Liedloff's Continuum Concept, which served as her inspiration in designing the ERGObaby Carrier, and the more recent Attachment Parenting movement.

To hear the interview, click on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Rev-Zoe-Weston/2009/05/08/The-Culture-Of-Baby-Carrying.

The ERGObaby Carrier has been chosen as the #1 winner in the Magic Beans March Madness Contest, in which customers rated their favorite products for kids! We are honored to have received the award, and grateful to Magic Beans Baby store for providing us their "badge"! Thanks for the support Magic Beans! For Magic Beans store information in your area, click here.

http://mbeans.com/magic-beans-march-madness-bracket.html

ERGObaby is featured as a "Dad Pack" in March's issue of Pregnancy Magazine!

Barack Obama reached the metaphorical mountaintop in winning the presidency in November's general election.

And those planning to attend the historic inauguration next week in Washington, D.C., should make preparations "no different than climbing to a mountaintop," said Matt Kelly of Silver Spring, an assistant manager for outdoor-gear chain REI.

The babywearing movement has seen tremendous growth in Western culture, as parents search for better ways to nurture and provide for their babies while including them in daily activities. However, babywearing has been part of many cultures (including indigenous) for thousands of years, and is considered the norm in parts of Africa and Asia. In fact, strollers, the popular Western baby-carrying choice, are considered "socially unacceptable", even in upscale African cities. Click here to read more . . .

What is World Breastfeeding Week?
It is celebrated in 120 countries and celebrates the signing of the Innocenti Declaration, produced and adopted in 1990 by participants at the WHO/UNICEF meeting on "Breastfeeding in the 1990s:  A Global Initiative on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding".  The document lists the benefits of breastfeeding, plus global and governmental goals.

The focus this year is to support "women in their efforts to do what is most important for the health and survival of their children through the best and most cost-effective intervention:  early and exclusive breastfeeding."

In conjunction with the Olympics, the theme for LLL in the USA 2008 WBW is Mother Support: Going for the Gold...supporting mothers so they can achieve the gold standard of infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively for six months, and providing appropriate complementary food with continued breastfeeding exclusively for up to two years or beyond.

Rachel Konrad, Associated Press
Sunday, May 25, 2008

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- It had been at least 24 hours since we had seen other humans, and the trail seemed to be ours alone -- gleaming granite slabs, scrabbly switchbacks, glorious glimpses of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, and jagged Sierra spires under cloudless skies.
But the meditative crunch-crunch-crunch of our boots soon gave way to men's voices. A trio of bearded 20-somethings approached.

"Whoa, baby!" gasped the group's gnarly looking leader, pointing to our son, snuggled up in a baby carrier on my chest.
"Lucky dude! He gets a free ride!" joked another.
"Can you carry me, too?" wheezed the laggard.

My husband, Stephen, and I stopped to chat with them. It was our fourth Yosemite trip of the year, and we had become accustomed to questions, comments and astonished stares from nearly everyone we met. Few people have seen a toddler in the back country -- let alone a woman carrying a loaded backpack, plus her child strapped to the front.