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June 17, 2024
To celebrate Black Babywearing Week this year, I want to tell you the story of my third child and how babywearing saved his life (dramatic, I know). This story is about his neurodivergence and our journey to that through babywearing. Full disclosure, my story is unique to our experience and will not be everyone’s. A friend once told me that if you meet one person with Autism, you’ve met just one person with Autism, because everyone who is Autistic is so unique and individual to their journey.
Babywearing beginnings
This story begins in 2010, surprisingly. That’s when I was pregnant with our first and at my baby shower, I got a baby wrap. I didn’t know much about it as a first-time parent, but I was determined. I remember watching loads of YouTube videos trying to figure it out and when I did, I felt UNSTOPPABLE. My first was born in the Spring of 2011 and we were a babywearing duo. I mostly wore him in the wrap and never looked back. By the time he was one, I stopped wearing him often because
June 16, 2024
Happy Father’s Day! At Ergobaby we celebrate all babywearing dads all year long, and we love to see fathers embracing life with their children in a baby carrier. And now we’re asking the big question, what kind of babywearing dad are you (or your partner)?
The go-everywhere-together kind
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The adventuring kind?
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The twinning kind?
The nature-loving kind?
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The prepared-for-every-eventuality kind?
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Or are you a different kind of Dad entirely? Let us know on Instagram @ergobabyuk!
June 13, 2024
Congratulations! Your little darling is half a year old! It's amazing how time flies... In today's instalment of our blog series ‘Baby’s developmental milestones with Ergobaby: baby’s first year’, we want to take a look at what your little one has probably achieved by the end of their sixth month of life together with our midwife and baby expert Katrin Ritter. We say ‘probably’ because each of our babies naturally develops at their own pace. You shouldn't worry if it takes a little longer for your little one to reach their 6-month-old baby milestones. However, if you notice that your baby's development is lagging far behind at 6 months, please speak to your health visitor or GP.
6-month-old baby milestones - The development
The big milestone at the end of the sixth month of life is the mature symmetrical hand support. From now on, your baby will be able to balance themself stably on the floor. In addition, their brain is gaining mass as the cerebral hemispheres become more and more
June 11, 2024
We caught up with our baby sleep specialist Gemma Coe to find out everything you need to know about the dreaded sleep regressions...
Understandably the term ‘sleep regression’ may make you a little cautious! Baby sleep is rarely linear and there will be peaks and troughs throughout their life, especially in the first year. However, there are certain time windows where we can predict changes in patterns to how your little one sleeps. These are often called a sleep regression. However, they don’t happen on exactly the anniversary of a certain date, so please don’t worry about approaching the four- or eight-month mark!
Understanding the 4 month sleep regression
It typically hits between three to five-months, and for premature babies, it syncs with their adjusted age. Whether your baby's sleep was previously amazing, or a little bit rocky, this regression can certainly mess with days and nights.
What are signs of 4 month sleep regression?
Your baby might:
wake more often at night without
June 08, 2024
Is there such a thing? A sustainable baby carrier? Absolutely, and not just one. Ergobaby baby carriers are all fundamentally sustainable due to their durability. They are regularly used for multiple babies across multiple families. But that's not all. With many of our baby carriers, we already focus on sustainability in terms of materials and production too. We’re committed to leaving the world a better place for future generations. This month we celebrate both World Environment Day on 5th June and World Oceans Day on 8th June so we thought it was the perfect time to share the adjustments we are making so that Ergobaby and our products are more sustainable, and contribute to a better world.
Sustainable baby carriers and products - our commitment at Ergobaby
It is our responsibility to make our planet a better place. Only then will our children - and all future generations - have the chance to live the life they deserve. And that's exactly why we are constantly working to reduce our
May 20, 2024
Your baby is in their fifth month of life and step by step their development is progressing. The two halves of their brain are becoming more and more connected, so that by the end of the fifth month they will probably be able to grasp in a targeted manner. And beyond the centre of their body. This is HUGE deal, because this skill requires lots of coordination and is a big step on your baby's developmental journey. It's the prerequisite for your little miracle to turn later on.
And that brings us right back to the fifth part of our blog series "Baby’s developmental milestones". In it, our lovely midwife and baby expert Katrin Ritter tells you what your baby will surprise you with month after month, how you can support them in individual movement sequences, and how you can promote their development. At the end of this journey, walking awaits! How exciting! But until then, there is still a lot going on in the body and brain of the little tots. Now, after five months, it's time to reach across
May 17, 2024
Many parents who embark on a breast/chestfeeding journey come across a pump at some point. Whether your feeding journey doesn’t get off to the start you hoped it would, or you want to try introducing a bottle, or because exclusively pumping is your first choice, whatever the reason, having an efficient tool for expressing milk can be a real help.
In addition to the important first hour after birth, during which your newborn baby goes through the nine stages of adaptation, expressing milk can also play a decisive role in the start of your feeding journey. Before the birth, however, your milk is not pumped, but expressed by hand, to extract valuable colostrum.
So that you feel well prepared and informed about expressing milk, we will be sharing all our knowledge about expressing milk with you together with our midwife and breast/chestfeeding expert Katrin.
What we’ll be covering:
Why you might want to try expressing milk
Finding the right chest / breast pump for you
When to start expressing
May 14, 2024
Yay and congratulations, you're pregnant! We hope you're doing well and enjoying this exciting new stage of your life without worrying too much about what you should or shouldn’t be doing. There are so many myths about being pregnant but don't let them stress you out. There are a few rules to follow simply to protect yourself and the little miracle in your tummy. For example, the topic ‘What not to eat and drink during pregnancy’, is a topic we’ve discussed on the blog before. Today, together with our expert Katrin, we want to take a closer look at a few more persistent rumours, like, can you dye your hair when pregnant? ect..Which ones are true and which ones can we bust?
Can you dye your hair when pregnant?
For most of you, one thing is certain: don't dye your hair using traditional hair dyes during pregnancy. Especially in the first three months of pregnancy. This is because your child's arms and legs are developing during this time and the nerve cells in the brain are connecting.
May 10, 2024
When I became a mother for the second time, one of the things I was most excited about was that I could start tandem carrying my daughter with her two-year-old brother! The options and choices for carrying both of them together were vast and I was so excited to try them all. You can use pretty much any type of sling or carrier for tandem babywearing. I quickly became adept at using one woven wrap to carry them both! However, when my toddler son wanted to get up and down a lot and my newborn daughter was sleeping - this swiftly became impractical outside of nap time.
Stretchy wraps and buckled carriers soon became my “go-to” carriers. They offered flexibility, variety and I could get both of my children in and out independently of each other. As they grew, this evolved into using two buckled carriers for speed.
As a Slingababy trained Carrying Consultant, I have also worked extensively with parents of twins and multiples to help them carry their babies singularly and together from birth.
May 09, 2024
Katrin Ritter has been part of our Ergobaby team in Europe for more than 14 years and has put her heart and soul into it. She is also the mother of a teenager, a midwife, a businesswoman in the healthcare sector, a certified babywearing consultant from the Dresden Babywearing School and a baby sleep expert. In other words, she knows what she‘s talking about when it comes to the healthy development of babies, ergonomics and all things pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
Katrin also heads up the marketing department for health professionals, looks after medical professionals in our markets, holds webinars and lectures on specialist topics for midwives, medical staff and babywearing and breastfeeding consultants, and is passionate about product development. Each of our ergonomic products is extensively tested by Katrin with families before being launched on the market, giving them the finishing touches.
With her great passion for healthy babywearing and ergonomic baby products that