Back carrying - Kenyan method

I see a lot of baby “wearing” these days which is nice

For Africans as a people, baby carrying has been our way of survival and growth too. “If she wasn’t carrying the baby she wasn’t working” is a saying that you would hear through and through because we sustained ourselves this way

As a Kenyan we are taught to baby carry at a very early age. I remember carrying our last born at the age of 9 years old myself. At 9 years old, my daughter is carrying my last born too

In Kenya we carry differently to how I have seen it taught actually even amongst African communities. Ours is crisscrossed as opposed to being worn horizontally

There is a saying that “African babies don’t cry” comes from the fact that even as mothers went in their duties after the 40 day rest, babies still had access to their mothers and the village at large and therefore was never left to cry or feel abandoned

I love baby wearing and have done with all my children. I carried my little one from 7 weeks old on my back because that is taught to us early in age and there is a reason why you start early and build it up

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