Build your babywearing skills and confidence and update your knowledge on current products, research and safety guidelines. Doulas, IBCLCs, childbirth educators, nurses, midwives, infant care specialists, breastfeeding counselors, and all others who work with perinatal families are invited. If you are in the business of providing accurate, evidence-based information and are fielding client’s babywearing questions, you need this workshop!

This 7-hour intensive workshop covers:

• - Babywearing as a tool to promote bonding, lessen the impact of mood and anxiety disorders, and increase breastfeeding success. We’ll explore the physiological and psychological benefits of babywearing, for both babies and wearers.

• - Safety for newborns. Learn how to recognize safe positioning in any carrier. Use evidence-based research to advise your clients appropriately and accurately.

• - The rich, multicultural history of babywearing. Don’t appropriate! Learn how to meet your clients where they are in our collective American culture, and also use language and an approach that honors and respects babywearing traditions worldwide.

• - Introduction to the 5 most common baby carriers and in depth, hands-on practice with at least 3 of them. This is what you came for! Get your own body in different carriers and gain real experience learning to adjust and troubleshoot the carriers that you are most likely to encounter.

• - Wearing premature babies and multiples. Learn safety guidelines and pro tips and tricks to share with families who may need some extra babywearing support.

• - How to choose your OWN carrier. Learn how wearing other people's babies can expand your own birthworker repertoire, all while building your clients' own babywearing confidence.

• -"What is the “best” carrier for your clients? Engage in group roleplay to decode the most common questions and concerns of new parents. Discover how babywearing can be a window into the deeper needs of new families.

About the instructor: 

Adriane Stare is a Certified Babywearing Instructor, Postpartum Doula and Lactation Counselor. She founded Wild Was Mama (most recently renamed The Wild), Brooklyn's premier Eco Baby and Maternity retail shop in 2010. She has helped thousands of parents learn to soothe their babies and restore their mental health by teaching them how to wear their babies safely, happily and comfortably in all types of baby carriers. Adriane blends her unique experience as a mom of two boys, a one-one-one postpartum service provider, and a longtime leader in the baby carrier retail and manufacturing industry to help meet her clients' specific needs for babywearing knowledge, all the way down to the brand level.

Tea and coffee will be provided throughout class, but please bring your own lunch and/or snacks with you, unless you feel confident you can use your 30 minute lunch break to successfully forage in the neighborhood. A fridge  will be available. Dress comfortably and be ready to try on carriers! In order to give you everyone the hands-on attention they need, attendance in this class will be limited to 10 people.

$225

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