Ep. 40 - Babywearing and Breastfeeding: a review of history, biology, and options!

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Table of Contents
0:30 Welcome to the podcast!
1:10 Listener question of the week
3:40 Thank you to our sponsor Taking Cara Babies Sleep Courses
4:30 Today we’re talking about baby wearing
4:34 First, Heather has stuck to her vitamin D commitment
6:00 Baby wearing, some species biology
12:20 Baby carriers go way back in history
13:00 People shifted toward not carrying
14:24 Baby carrying associated with non-Western culture
14:55 Baby carrier made a comeback in 1970s
15:00 A word about cultural appropriation
16:44 Overview of what’s available
17:00 But first, breastfeeding benefits with baby wearing
19:13 Baby carrier types and how to use them
19:25 Woven wraps
21:14 The stretchy wrap
22:28 The ring sling
23:05 The pouch sling and T-shirt carriers
24:30 Structured carriers
25:56 Soft structured carriers: Mei Tai, Onbuhimo
27:18 Different season, different carrier
27:24 Carrier as a shirt (bonus: skin to skin!)
28:07 Really structured carriers
28:20 Give them a try; we share our experiences
31:50 Thank you to our sponsor
32:35 The Milk Minute Awards in the Alcove!
33:30 Thank you for listening!
Resources
Video: how to wear a Mei Tai wrap, with Lisa Bass from Farmhouse on Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGC3SPbWq9w
Video: how to tie a Mei Tai wrap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWn_ldLtTI
Heather on the Farmhouse on Boone podcast with Lisa Bass, talking about breastfeeding, birth, and baby wearing
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-farmhouse-life/id1494284839?i=1000464507045
Ep. 24 - Exercise And Breastmilk- Will it hurt your supply?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-24-exercise-and-breastmilk-will-it-hurt-your-supply/id1521075273?i=1000494144640

Credits and contact
Thanks to Cherie Louise Turner for editing and production and to Lindsay Brett Carothers for her musical stylings of our intro and outro.
Additional music credits, thank you beetpro, Wataboi and Mazzaccaro from Pixabay.
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