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The Baby
Cuddler Frontpak is offered here, because it is our desire to heed the voice of
nature and support attachment parenting. We
know that babies thrive and are most content when experiencing life
‘in-arms’ during their early months. It
is natural that they learn of life heart-to-heart and face-to-face.
Our babies know this and are calling for us to remember and provide.
The
‘in-arms’ experience is rich. In
our arms, our children feel the pace and activities of life, the way things are, sounds,
sights, temperature changes, and the composition of things.
They expect and are comforted when we continue doing grown-up work, just
lugging them along so they can be in the middle to watch & learn.
We are born to learn – it, too, is our nature and happens regardless of
the environment or experience. Other
cultures innately know and live this truth.
In those cultures where babies are ‘worn’ – carried about during
their early months secured to an adult body - babies are calmer and cry less. As
they mature, social interaction is cooperative and healthy.
It is only in the ‘civilized’ cultures where we spend so much time
doubting what our hearts are telling us and segmenting our lives, that parents
are encouraged to detach from their babies almost from birth.
And we can see the results; feelings
of loss and separation first felt at infancy escalate as we grow into adulthood
resulting in intense competition and confrontation. No wonder we find it difficult to maintain healthy
relationships, when we have been encouraged from birth to be independent from
needing and caring for one another.
“Carrying
creates an environment, which lessens the baby’s need to cry, it helps to
‘organize’ a baby. One of
the most important functions of a new parent is to help their baby become
organized. I believe carried babies
thrive better. All babies grow, not
all babies thrive. Thriving means
growing to one’s fullest potential, not only getting taller and wider but
growing in behavioral competence. Carried
babies have a head start on learning. A
baby who’s carried more, cries less and spends more time in the state of quiet
alertness. He is exposed to and
involved in what’s going on around him.”
-Dr.
William Sears The Baby Book
For nine months, baby has been held
securely in a place full of movement, sounds, feelings, and sensations.
As they are introduced to the world outside the womb, they are most
secure ‘in-arms’ continuing experiences that are familiar while being
introduced to new ones.
"Does
it make a difference how a baby is transported?
Judge for yourself. Carried,
our infant experiences body warmth, frequent position change, deep-pressure
touch, containment, and rocking, to say nothing of the opportunities to balance
her head, upright her posture, or use her muscles for clinging.
When babies are wheeled, all this is lacking.
Carried, our baby hears our noise and smells our odors.
Wheeled, she hears a cacophony of screaming, screeching, scraping,
shattering street noise. Garbled
language replaced audible human language, and soothing human odors are absent
altogether.
As for all the variety of stimulation during carrying – frequent
kissing and stroking of hair, nose, cheeks, eyebrows, and forehead, the change
of positioning, the rearrangement of clothing, the swaying side to side and back
and forth – it all but disappears during wheeling.
Infant seats do nothing to promote attachment between mother and baby.
The mother’s body draws the baby into a pulsing circle of warmth,
softness, and roundness that contains and cushions his shape in supple,
receptive contours; that adjusts and adapts in sync with his turns, squirms and
stretches; that massages him with slow, fluid motions that vary his day and give
rhythm to his existence. This
cements the connection between mother and child; plastic containers do none of
this. As such, they dramatically
change the baby’s sense of life and human relationships.”
-Sharon
Heller, Ph.D The Vital Touch
The Baby Cuddler Frontpak provides the
means to continue our active adult lives while meeting the important
‘in-arms’ needs of our babies. Please
take a moment to review our product and consider using a Baby Cuddler Frontpak
to aid your nurturing. We know you
will be blessed.
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