African Baby Carrier - Deluxe
The African Baby Carrier Deluxe has been designed with a size adjusting zip and additional webbing to carry larger, heavier babies than the original African Baby Carrier.
Deluxe Features at a Glance:
- This carrier starts off at the same size as the original carrier, and is uniquely designed to expand in height and width to accommodate the support of a growing child up to 22kg’s
- Incredibly light weight at 740 grams
- The broader hip belt webbing supports the increased weight of toddler
- The shoulder belts adjust in two places, preventing the shoulder padding slipping into the armpit area
- Comes in a carry bag which can be attached to the carrier itself essentially replacing an additional baby bag for nappies and bottles etc
- A detachable moonbag replaces the need to carry a handbag
Using the benefits of modern materials, the African Baby Carrier Deluxe assists caregivers in going about their daily business while creating a healthy supportive environment for their child. It provides strong support for the correct development of baby's spine and hips, and the specially designed hood provides 100% support for baby's head while sleeping.
Suitable For
Ideally the baby should be carried on the front of the care giver during the first 3 – 5 months. Thereafter on the back. African Baby Carrier Deluxe can be used until the child is 3 to 3.5 years old.
Clockwise Guide:
1. Hood and hood straps
2. Chest strap
3. Hood strap ring
4. Shoulder strap
5. Waist buckle
6. Small pocket
7. Padded waist belt
8. Nappy Pocket
9. Size Adjusting Zip
10. Shoulder Strap
For most of human history, mothers have carried their babies close to their bodies, not only to leave their hands free for the multi-tasking all mothers perform, but also, as research has proven; because babies are always happiest when in close proximity to the bodies of their caregivers. The benefits of Babywearing are now widely acknowledged and, while in the West we have only recently rediscovered these benefits, Babywearing is still the most universally practiced baby carrying method worldwide.
Explore using the carrier to find which method is most comfortable for you. Practice with the help of a mirror or close to a bed.
5 ways to use your carrier:
- front
- hip / back, 1st method
- hip / back 2nd method
- piggy back method
- using the hood
Ideally the baby should be carried on the front of the care giver during the first 3 – 5 months. Thereafter on the back. African Baby Carrier Deluxe can be used until the child is 3 to 3.5 years old.
Product Benefits at a Glance:
- Facilitates and improves attachment and bonding
- Reduces colic and crying
- Mother’s heart beat and breathing support and stimulate baby’s physical functions
- Excellent head and neck support
- Splayed legs facilitate better development for hips, legs, and spine than dangling legs
- Reduced incidence of, and improvement of existing, ‘flathead’
- Reduced incidence of SIDS (cot death)
- Improved milk supply as baby wearing increases lactation
- Frees the care giver, allowing far greater freedom of movement and action than would a pram
- Lowers the incidence and severity of post natal depression
Made in Africa with love
Product Origins:
This baby carrier is a pure African product, handmade from the finest and most durable cottons. Khanyisa Products, where African Baby Carriers are made, is an initiative which aims to teach previously disadvantaged woman, who already know a bit about sewing, how to use an industrial machine, enabling them to either earn a living form home or in the atelier.
Nozabathini was born in 1964 in Queenstown. She has 2 children and one grandchild. It was in Queenstown that she first was trained to sew. She worked as a machinist in a factory there until it closed, and then moved to Cape Town. Although a qualified machinist, her employment card – which at that time she, like all ‘non-white’ South Africans, was forced to carry under Apartheid Pass Laws – did not read machinist, and so she was unable to get work at the factory in Woodstock when she applied. Instead she worked as a domestic worker in Cape Town for a number of years. She says of her wishes for the future, and for African Baby Carrier: “I wish the business can grow so that I can become full-time. It’s nice to work here but it is not permanent because the business is not big. We would like it to grow.”
Nosakhele was born in Stellenbosch in 1965. She lives in Masiphumelele near Fish Hoek, as do her two daughters and 3 grandchildren. As a child, she spent time in Beaufort, and three years with an aunt in Cape Town. She learnt sewing from her mother when she was 16 years old, and from that time it became her dream to sew for a living. She worked in a bakery for 5 years and as a domestic worker for 3 years, but held her dream of sewing alive, until she found work with Khanyisa Products. Nosakhele also makes beautiful clothes for clients.
