{"id":1209,"date":"2012-06-24T02:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:12:58","slug":"baby-wearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2012\/06\/24\/baby-wearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Wearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby wearing is not a new fad.\u00a0 For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the Nahuatl and other indigenous mothers have been wearing their babies.\u00a0 Here is a 16 year old mother with her one year old:<\/p>\n

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I got to try my hand, or my back, at this ancient practice.\u00a0 Katie was checking language with one of our Nahuatl friends.\u00a0 Her baby was really fussy and I was trying to keep him quiet so Katie and our friend could concentrate on Nahuatl.\u00a0 It wasn’t working, so I tried to give him back to his mother.\u00a0 She picked up her shawl and said, “He want\u00b4s to be worn.\u00a0 Here…”<\/p>\n

I was scared to put him on because I figure he’d fall out of the shawl.\u00a0 So, she tied him on me and I went about making lunch and doing other projects and he was as quiet as a mouse!<\/p>\n

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My first baby-wearing experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Baby wearing is not a new fad.\u00a0 For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the Nahuatl and other indigenous mothers have been wearing their babies.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Katie was checking language with one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[424,52,534],"tags":[1094,6662,6670],"class_list":{"0":"post-1209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture-language","7":"category-fun","8":"category-pics","9":"tag-language-culture-study","10":"tag-nahuatl-people","11":"tag-village-life","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}