As we (meaning the fellow organizers and myself) were planning for the conference, donation after donation kept coming in. From the form of carriers for our lending library (which has become quite the envy of many a conference attendee), money for the conference, or miscellaneous, rockin' items for the goodie bags.
First off, ergo. Not only were they super generous with their multiple donations, I'm falling more and more in love with their carrier because they're SO extremely comfortable!
I now own this green one, and will get LOTS of use out of it, for sure!
Technically, I could still put Eliza in it even while super pregnant, but this picture was taken a few months ago and I now have a large beach ball instead of melon ball for a belly. I can barely find a comfortable position for ME to be in, let alone wearing another child! I could still do it though, for the record.
Here's some amazing ergo women. Elizabeth Strong on the right also taught the Mama and Baby Yoga class in the mornings and read the questions for the medical panel (more on that later). Basically, if it wasn't for ergo, the Conference wouldn't have been nearly the success that it was. Ergo rocks, that's all I can say.
OK, the story behind the fake baby. They provided a "realistic baby" to test out carriers which was weighted according to the average infant to help mommy or daddy's figure out how to wear their kiddies comfortably, even if they didn't have a "baby" with them at the time.The Conference had a couple of these fake babies. They came in handy when teaching classes on how to use carriers or demo putting them on.
Hannah was helping Diane Pepin try out a carrier, and this definitely isn't the last you'll see of Diane's sweet babywearing skills.Stay tuned for the next IBC Celebrity post featuring...well, you'll just have to wait and see!
