Baby wearing is not a new fad. For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the Nahuatl and other indigenous mothers have been wearing their babies. Here is a 16 year old mother with her one year old:
I got to try my hand, or my back, at this ancient practice. Katie was checking language with one of our Nahuatl friends. Her baby was really fussy and I was trying to keep him quiet so Katie and our friend could concentrate on Nahuatl. It wasn’t working, so I tried to give him back to his mother. She picked up her shawl and said, “He want´s to be worn. Here…”
I was scared to put him on because I figure he’d fall out of the shawl. So, she tied him on me and I went about making lunch and doing other projects and he was as quiet as a mouse!
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