We are still working on building the list of resources for you!


Where to get carriers

Several companies have been generous enough to donate carriers to our libraries, so here we highlight those companies as places that we recommend that you shop from. We encourage you to come to a meeting and try on the carriers to help you choose what to buy.

Pouches

Ring Slings

Asian-Inspired (mei-tais or soft structured carriers)

Wraps

Babywearing Clothing

Additional Recommendations

Coming soon -- some other well-known baby-wearing companies that make high-quality slings, but they just weren't able to donate to us.

Pouches:
Ring Slings:
Asian-Inspired:
Wraps:


Local Resources

Mia Putia (a local store with baby carriers and cloth diapers. They have donated some slings to our sling library!)
Our Blog (just getting started)
Our email list(a yahoo group)
Our files (nothing yet)

Online Resources

The BabyWearer (THE online place to go, it has articles, photos, reviews, stuff for sale and trade, active forums, everything!)

Benefits of Babywearing Article

Babywearing International (The new umbrella organization that is getting started to support all the small local groups, like ours)
Wrap Your Baby (A great site to learn about a bunch of ways to use a wrap, or simple piece of cloth)

Other babywearing blogs

MagicCity Slingers (A babywearing group in Alabama)
The Incredible Carrying Cloth (A NYC Muslim mama who has a fun baby-wearing blog)

Do it yourself baby-carriers

The BabyWearer (has a DIY forum where you can ask questions, and sometimes people link to patterns, etc)

Jan Andrea (Jan has lots of patterns and advice about making all sort of carriers)

A mei tai pattern with interchangeable panels

SlingRings (where to buy rings for making your own ring-slings)

Also, some vendors of slings will post their patterns on their websites, so that's also a good place to find stuff.