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A baby sling or baby carrier is a cloth device, usually of adjustable length, used to carry a baby securely against the wearer's body. [1] Slings have been used for millennia. [2] They are usually made of soft fabric, and wrap around the carrier's chest. Slings provide comfort and support for the baby and allow the parent or carer to keep their ...
Baby carriers and slings help increase the number of hours a day an infant is held, and proponents believe that the more a baby is held, the less the baby cries. [15] However, this experience is not universal; for example, the indigenous Munduruku people of Brazil use baby slings to carry their babies all day.
A coroner has warned there ‘very little’ information about how to carry children safely in slings, despite a surge in their use Warning over baby slings after six-week-old died during ‘hands ...
Baby wearing in a sling was well known in Europe in medieval times, but was mainly seen as a practice of marginalised groups such as beggars and Romani people. [4] A cradleboard is a Native American baby carrier used to keep babies secure and comfortable and at the same time allowing the mothers freedom to work and travel. [5]
A Navajo-style cradleboard A Skolt Sámi mother with her child in a ǩiõtkâm. Cradleboards (Cheyenne: pâhoešestôtse, Northern Sami: gietkka, Skolt Sami: ǩiõtkâm, Inari Sami: kietkâm, Pite Sami: gietkam, Kazakh: бесік, Kyrgyz: бешік) are traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America, throughout northern Scandinavia among the Sámi, and ...
A typical kitenge pattern. Customers and visitors at a display of African kitenge clothes. A kitenge or chitenge (pl. vitenge Swahili; zitenge in Tonga) is an East African, West African and Central African piece of fabric similar to a sarong, often worn by women and wrapped around the chest or waist, over the head as a headscarf, or as a baby sling.
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