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Baby Wearing: Beco Gemini

Beco Gemini: The Beco Gemini is a soft structured carrier recommended uses for newborn-toddler (up to 35#) ages, can use it for front carry, back carry and hip carry. It comes with a foldable headrest. Special Features: This carrier offers 4 positions (with a facing out front carry) to carry baby. While some baby wearers [...]

Babywearing: Boba Baby Wrap (formerly Sleepy Wrap)

The Boba Baby Wrap is a baby wrap recommended uses for newborn to ~18 months). It can be used in a variety of carrying positions on the front as well as to support the head and fits to the size of the baby and mom. Special Features: This wrap is snuggly and wraps around baby [...]

Babywearing: Baby Ktan

The Baby Ktan is a shorter wrap type carrier that slips on over shoulders.  It is recommended uses for newborn-toddler (up to 35#) ages, can use it for a variety of positions including a cradle position and front carry. Special Features: This carrier was created by a parent of a child with special needs and [...]

Babywearing: Bali Breeze wrap

The Bali Breeze wrap is a gauze wrap (similar to a woven wrap), that can be used for a variety of carries on the front, back or hip.  It comes in a variety of beautiful patterns and is made to be used for infants and toddlers. Special Features: Can use it for a variety of [...]

Babywearing: The Benefits of Babywearing

Babywearing: The Benefits of Babywearing

By Andrea Henry, MS, PT Babywearing has become one of the newest trends lately in regards to babies and I am so excited to have the opportunity with my newest little one to use it. I was mostly new to babywearing with this baby (there were not as many carriers when I had the twins [...]

Running Research: Running and Nursing

Running Research: Running and Nursing

Are you a mom who has a recent newborn and is nursing and running? Returning to running and nursing is a challenge but do-able with good planning, flexibility and realistic expectations. As I am a nursing mom and runner, I began to wonder about nursing and the impact it had on stress fractures and overall [...]

Running With Baby: Is Baby Ready for the Front of the Stroller?

Running With Baby: Is Baby Ready for the Front of the Stroller?

By Andrea Henry, Pediatric and Running PT, Running Coach Running with a baby might be considered an art form and a circus act all in one. It requires pulling together 60 simultaneous thoughts and things at once to get you and baby out of the house with precision timing. So being able to toss aside [...]

INFANT DEVELOPMENT: Your Baby Athlete-Newborn to One Month, Part II

INFANT DEVELOPMENT: Your Baby Athlete-Newborn to One Month, Part II

Activities to complete with your baby to promote movement development: **You will notice many of these ideas include other areas of development besides gross motor. This is because motor skills are developed in conjunction with and further enhanced by other sensory development-hence the term “sensory-motor”. The ideas below include all aspects (visual, vestibular, sensory or [...]

INFANT DEVELOPMENT: Your Baby Athlete-Newborn to One Month, Part I

INFANT DEVELOPMENT: Your Baby Athlete-Newborn to One Month, Part I

From the day a baby is created and born, movement is something innate-something that is constantly occurring.  When our babies movements begin to develop in utero, they are gaining a sensory-motor experience we can’t see.  But when they are born, we are privileged to watch their little world of movement open up, learning like a [...]

BLOG POST: Giving Birth is like Running a Marathon

We runners know well that running races and especially marathons prepare us well for birth and motherhood. We might dream of being pregnant and giving birth and might imagine how it will happen. And we all at some point, imagine how that perfect race will go too. We can do all the training and research [...] Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

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