Andrew Dodge,

Last September, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. Being a parent, I wanted to give him the best possible start in life.  I had done all kinds of research – reading articles, books, and blogs. I talked to parents, professors, and fellow chiropractors.  I foolishly felt somewhat prepared for this whole parenting thing.  Being a chiropractor, I knew the benefits of “holistic parenting” with our child.  Finding ourselves in the all-natural parenting world, babywearing was something that my wife and I both enthusiastically supported.  We both understood the benefits of babywearing (including benefits to our child’s structural, physiological, and neurological development) over carrying our son in an infant car seat or pushing him in a stroller all the time.[i],[ii],[iii] With that in mind, we decided to make babywearing a large part of our parenting style. The more we read and thought about it, the more we realized the importance of me, as the father, wearing our son.