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Industry objects referred to maternal support

This text reflects some contradictions regarding how mothers carry their children in our Western culture.

since mankind exists, mothers always held in her arms to feed their babies, rocking and move. Especially nomadic cultures have developed different formats for the transfer of babies needing your hands available to carry those tools that were creating the culture and the need for survival, including fire product of both nature and human creation.

These "moving media" vary their clothing materials: fabric, leather and animal hides, wool fabrics, wood and woven reeds, depending on their climate, flora and fauna of the region, the tasks performed by the mother (Who accompanies the child) and journeys to be made.

At the same time there is a clear diversity in postural habits and body characteristic of every people, every tribe and every town.

transfer forms are infinitely varied, the basic positions are: on the back, the chest or the hip. This variability is also determined by the ages of the children as by geography, there are cultures that carry their babies, children and taking care to keep large right off the ground in the presence of animals that lurk.

culture models bodies and common positions of its inhabitants, the Bolivian mothers for example, often carry babies and children on their backs wrapped in colorful fabrics. It is also common to see women in Bolivia, vendors of vegetables and condiments, squatting on low benches near the ground, where children spend most of the time.
If you scour the streets of Cusco in Peru, would appreciate the same housing, both to load the children, vegetables or other goods they need to move.

When shared parenting with other family members or community, can be seen in older females most adolescents, load the same way their brothers. These forms of support and learning transfer is seeing and living them through direct experience.
Argentine mothers, as other large cities, could not carry that weight on the back ...

In India and Africa mothers sit on the floor to play or massage their babies by keeping the legs straight, straight back without support, with a comfort that both mothers and those of other Argentine cities of the West or even try it spontaneously.
product names are not only of culture but also of fashion ...

Calls slings, quepinas, shawls or mantles in Argentina, have taken the name of baby bags and backpacks recent years these are being displaced by the "carrier" which are nothing but a replica of slings but with modern fabrics, hooks sure to replace the manual knots and stuffed with wadding making the "carrier" a more comfortable and anatomical.
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