International Babywearing Week 2011

To celebrate this weeks International Babywearing Week,we had a photographer come and take some lovely candid photos of some of our Library members enjoying the wonders of babywearing.

 
We had a lovely afternoon,we were really happy with the turnout as the weather was wet and miserable.The adults had fun getting to know one another and indulging in the lovely cakes,the babies were getting really snuggly in their slings and the pre schoolers were having a great time playing together-i can safely say that the afternoon was a great success!

 
We had a couple more members sign up and loaned out a few more slings...we even got a Daddy say that hes hoping to come on a regular basis...and hes even considering trying the Ergo!


Over the next week or two we are adding to our Sling library stash,and are expecting a couple of Mei Tais,a Scootababy,a Dreampod and some more ring slings....i get soooo excited when they arrive in the post!

On Facebook we are now doing a daily Babywearing tip/fact/beneft-so like our pleae 'like' our page and look out for that.

 
We will also be having some visitors to the Sling Library on the way up to Christmas-the first one being Rachel, a lady that sells Usborne books-lok out for details.


Happy Babywearing!

WE ARE NOW OPEN!!!!

We had our grand opening on Tuesday 4th October-and it was FANTASTIC!!!!

We had a great turnout,a couple of seasoned babywearers,some people wanting to give it a go,and a few expectant mums who are planning on coming back with their newborns,and few lovely friends who've supported us from day one-we couldn't believe how busy it was!

Thankyou to Golden Hippo Cakes for donating a beautiful and very tasty chocolate celebration cake!

I demonstrated how to use several of the slings including ring slings,pouches,stretchy wraps and a woven wrap,an also talked about babywearing safety.

We had a number of people sign up,and even loaned out several slings-infact ALL our ring slings are out on loan at the moment.

I'd like to say a HUGE THANKYOU to all the companies that have gifted us slings or have given us generous discounts-without them we would still be a long way from opening,so thankyou to Pouchlings,Victoria the Slinglady,Ergo,Slumber roo and Babybjorn. (see links for details)

So next on the Chesterfield Sling Library agenda is International Babywearing Week 2011,which starts next week. To celebrate we're planning a photoshoot,so please come down and join us!