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| Me and Stella with the original baby-bag! |
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**Welcome
to the Marsupial Mother Home Page** |
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This is how it all started
(well, it started with a kiss, but that's another story...) Once Stella
arrived, I wanted an easy way to carry her around without the separation
and hassle of a pram ~ I came up with this baby-bag sling ~ It was
great, a revelation! Stella and I really benefitted from it. But she
soon grew out of it ~ so I built another sling.
By this time I was so sure of the benefits of baby~wearing I wanted
everybody to be able to do it, so another birth happened, marsupial
mother baby slings. (Thankfully, not as painful as the first ;-) |
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**Why
Is Marsupial Mothering So Important?** |
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Marsupial Mothering and
Attachment
Parenting are new terms for an age old way of nurturing children
which allows us to get back in touch with our mothering instincts
rather than relying on gadgets and rigid schedules. Marsupial mothering
means carrying your baby in some sort of sling where most of his needs
for comfort and feeding can be met while you get on with your life.
Holding our babies close allows us to respond to their needs quickly
and easily. This means much less stress, less crying and less colic. |
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**Some
Interesting Facts.** |
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" Biology indicates that human infants were
designed for continuous feeding and holding. The most stable and
safe place for a baby to grow and thrive is against his mother's
body.
Human infants are the most immature of all mammals at birth... They
need to complete their gestation on or near their mother....A baby's
heartbeat and temperature remain much more stable with skin-to-skin
contact.
The composition of milk varies among mammals. "Carry"
mammals (including humans) produce milk that is high in cardohydrates
and low in fat and protien. This milk composition helps to explain
why kangaroo mother care is best for human babies although our society
has tried to change this pattern. This social change is counter
to our biological design and potentially detrimental to the infant."
Dr. Nils Bergman MD.
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