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Wordless Wednesday: Hippie 70's Dad Babywearing
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 
Yup, that's my Dad wearing me!
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That is so cool!
Rock on Daddy!
Thats pretty funny...how all our Dad's seem to look very alike...shaggy with big glasses.
Very cool for babywearing then.
What kind of carrier is that? Do you have a picture with him standing up? I would love to see pictures of the whole carrier. Was the carrier homemade?
@ gid - it is the only picture that I have of him wearing me. It was an olive green corduroy front carrier. I'm pretty sure it wasn't homemade (unless my mom got it from someone else that had made it).
That carrier looks way ahead of its time. If you find anything else about it I would love to know more.
oh my goodness! that is COOL! thanks for sharing :)
Amazing.
That is a fantastic photo :)
Oh, wow, that is the original green corduroy Snugli that I carried both a premie and a toddler in (but not at the same time, lol). I bought it when I was expecting my second baby, never knowing how indespensible it would be. I used it to carry baby on the front, on the back, and once returned from a walk with the baby in the stroller and my two-year-old in the Snugli on my back. Boy, that brings back memories.
@helen
Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your story!
My mom carried me in an original Snuglie - it was the 'seersucker' summer version (there were just the two 0 the corduroy and the seersucker) She saved the carrier, and when O was born, I used it with him for the first month or so! Then we moved on to wraps...
That's the best!
Awww cute! My parents were hippies too but I don't think either of them wore my sister or me.
Wow! I have never seen a picture of a Snugli, but my mom talks about them and lots of hippie parents of the 70s and 80s always love my "snugli" when they see me wearing my DS! Funny that I don't recall photos of me being worn (LOL, other than my dad putting me in a napsack and going hiking! We have photos of me asleep, just my head out!).
Thanks for the photo! (and, yes, my dad was another with shaggy hair, beard, glasses, cords, and they were the first to have a homebirth in our small town in 35 years or so!)
Oh gosh, this is SO good!!
I love it. He looks like a pro.
Annie, remind me when we move back to Gatineau... I think I have two or three of those old Snugglis packed away. I saw them at VV for a song, so grabbed them. Might be fun for you to take a look.
Fab!!
And 'snap' I have got one that matches of my dad wearing me in the 70's - hahah! http://blessingtree.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/mommie-daddie-me-copy.jpg
Too. cute.
LOVE! It always cracks me up when people say, "Too bad they didn't have those when my kids were babies!"
That's priceless! So cool that your parents gave u the gift and security of babywearing! :)
Ever think how being raised by such parents ( as I was) makes it easier for you to be the feminist you are today. I think about this a lot- how I never for an instant imagined formula feeding or Dads who don't change diapers when I got married and thought about having kids. Thanks trailblazing parents!
Aurora:
That picture is a moment in time and not necessarily indicative of how I was raised. In reality, my mom was a stay at home mom, and my dad worked long hours 6 days per week. But I do agree that how we were parented does help frame the types of parents we are. There are some things I do just because I never imagined it any other way (my mom nursed four kids and I later lived with a host family on an exchange program that also had a nursing mom), but there are other things that I do specifically to be different.
Awesome! I've inherited a carrier that was used to carry my husband when he was an infant (in 1974!) to a La Leche League conference in Chicago (we're all from Maritime Canada)... I have a trailblazing MIL, and though I do some things differently, I am thankful for how her parenting helped influence the man and father my husband has become - completely supportive and participating in all aspects of our family life.