pimg class=”alignright” alt=”baby” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/baby.jpg” width=”319″ height=”225″ title=”Why You Should Wear (or Carry) Your Baby (At Least Some of the Time)” /For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been trying to figure out ways to avoid carrying their infants so that they could drink Frappucinos and update their Facebook status on their phones. Ancestral Inuit mothers had sled dog strollers placed on top of skis. Native Australians kept several varieties of marsupials megafauna as pets and infant caretakers, using their pouches to store up to a half dozen human infants at once. I#8217;m kidding, of course. Just as all members of the family hominidae are and were ardent a title=”Co-Sleeping: How to Do It Safely” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/co-sleeping-how-to-do-it-safely/”co-sleepers/a, apes, humans, and (most likely) all extinct hominids carried or even wore their infants on their bodies as a general rule. And so, for most of human history, our infants have been swaddled, slung, carried, […]

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