While baby slings have been used for centuries in different cultures, their rising popularity among parents has led some practitioners to introduce them to settings.
Slings are made of soft fabrics that wrap around the chest, and there is an increasingly wide variety of carriers available, from wraps, pouches and ring slings to soft-structured carriers and mei tais.
Kizzy Coll-Cats, a babywearing consultant from Babywearing South West, explains, ‘We are a carrying species. We’ve been doing this worldwide since the beginning of time, when babies would be eaten or freeze if they weren’t picked up.
‘Today as a society we have done so much more research into child development that we now know how important holding and responding are to brain development, security and attachment, so carrying continues to be very popular.’
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