Slingguide website

A fabulous new website has been created to provide information about choosing and using slings, Slingguide.co.uk. It has been created for parents by some of the lovely mums at Natural Mamas a great babywearing and natural parenting forum.

The slingguide site has loads of info about slings as well as a great page of links to instruction videos for all types of slings and carries.

Please take a look.

International Babywearing week celebrations

We had a great celebration on Monday for the International babwearing week. There was a great turn out in Bursledon (home of Soutampton sling meet), and we raised over £200 for charity in the raffle, auction, and cake sale. Thank you to everyone who attended, I hope you had as much fun as we did. Photos can be seen on the Southampton Sling Meet site.

Pompey Sling meets

I'm happy to say that the Pompey Sling meets will continuing at least until Christmas due to a rise in the attendance. The next meetings are as follows:

Thursday 22nd Oct
Thursday 19th Nov
Thursday 17th Dec

Next meets

The August meet was busy then it has been for a while so things are looking up for the group continuing. I am still going to wait until after the meet on 10th Sept before I make a final decision. I have booked dates up until the end of the year in hope of the group continuing, so here are the provisional dates:

Thurs 22nd Oct 10am-12pm *to be confirmed
Thurs 19th Nov 10am-12pm *to be confirmed
Thurs 17th Dec 10am-12pm *to be confirmed

I'll confirm whats happening to the group after the next meet.

International Babywearing week celebrations

We are celebrating International Babywearing week (21st-28th Sept) inconjunction with Southampton Sling meet. The celebration will take place in Bursledon, Southampton at the Windmill Childrens centre which is where the Southampton Sling meet takes place. We've chosen to hold it there as there centre has more space then ours. Details on how to get to the centre can be found on the Southampton Sling meet website . Though I have been there and it is quite easy to get there from Bursledon train station, just a 10-15min walk.

There will be a cake stall (please do brings cakes along to sell), and a charity raffle/auction. The Southampton Sling library will also be there to try on.

We have received some very generous donations for our charity raffle/auction:
The prizes to be auctioned include

An Onbag which is a fantastic babywearing bag. (I have one and love it!)

A custom made Dreampod which is a Podaegi baby sling

A Napsack which is a Mei Tai kindly donated by Slingjax

The raffle prizes will include:

Babylegs - legwarmers for babys in slings
Slingview mirror - a little mirror to hang on your sling to look at baby when in a sling on your back
And money off vouchers to Natural Nursery, Natural Connection, Little Possums, Tumbebe

All money raised from the raffle/auction and cake sale will be donated to Best Beginnings.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Change to meeting day/time

The meetings are now going to be Thursday mornings from 10am-12pm, still at the Kings centre. Sorry to anyone who preferred having it on a Friday, but the meetings have been very quiet so I thought a change of day/time may work better. The next meetings are on:

Thursday 13th Aug 10-12pm
Thursday 10th Sept 10-12pm (to be confirmed)

As you may be aware I run this group on a voluntary basis because this is something I am passionate about. But if the attendance to the group does not improve over the next couple of meetings I will probably stop running it for now.

New dates for the spring

I've booked some new dates for sling meets for the spring. They are on:

Fri 17th April
Fri 22nd May
Fri 19th June
Fri 17th July

They are all from 1-3pm at the Kings Sure start centre on Elm grove (details on previous post).