The simple still works

I was talking with someone today about all the new inventions that have come out for babies. My youngest will be 18 in August so it's been 18 years since I've purchased baby things. But we were talking about the carriers for babies and how many different products there are just for carrying a baby around.

In Kenya there seems to be one way and it is simple and inexpensive. Plus I hear it's a very comfortable way to carry a baby. What impressed me about this form of "baby handling" is how they get the baby onto their backs! It's quite acrobatic and I thought for sure I'd see a baby falling to the ground. But even young girls carry their baby sister/brother around on their back and they do the same acrobatic dance.

Many times the women are carrying the babies around because they aren't walking yet, or they want to get around the market with their hands free to check out the vegetables. However, this woman was forced to carry her son while she was begging for money so that her son could have surgery on his legs.

The products we have so readily available here in the US are unheard of in this area. And honestly I wonder if many of them would scoff if they saw them. With this simple method they are wrapping their baby and keeping them close. What child wouldn't love that?