About

Jeni

Site Founders - Jennifer Norton and Denby Angus

TheBabyWearer.com was founded in 2003 by Australians Jennifer Norton and Denby Angus. Their first son was carried in-arms, without benefit of a sling, and Jeni ended up with severe tenosynovitis in both elbows. It wasn't until she read The Baby Book (by Dr William and Martha Sears) that she realised there was a simple solution! Life with their second worn baby seemed much less daunting, as she was happy, her older brother got lots of attention, and mum and dad could get other things done too. Jeni's "parenting anxiety" was reduced by about 90%!

Denby

Jennifer completed Honours study in Developmental Psychology and is now a PhD student at the Australian National University. She is interested in parenting per se, and in interventions or strategies that make parenting easier and less anxiety-ridden for parents and therefore better for children (just like babywearing!). Her particular interests are post-natal depression, as well as mums and babies with special needs, and whether babywearing would be a useful strategy for these mums and babies (indications are that it could be very valuable).

Denby played a crucial role in developing the website and providing essential technical support. Both he and Jennifer strongly believe that babywearing is a wonderful "intervention" for most families. Their idea for this website came out of our own experiences: it's a resource that would have helped us, when they started out as parents.

For some history of the site read this, this, and this.

Current Site Administrator - Christy Montemurro

Christy and Leo
(March 2007)

Christy was lucky to have a good friend who had a baby five months prior to the birth of her own son, Leo (February 2005), and see what an amazing parenting tool babywearing was for her friend. But when her first carrier didn't meet all of her needs, she did online research to figure out which one would work better for her. She quickly found TBW and pored over the explanations of different carrier types and brands. She had no idea what she was getting into! (Read more about her personal babywearing journey here.) As Christy absorbed as much information as she could about babywearing, she became yet another mom won over by how helpful a babycarrier can be, and was also moved by the warmth of the online babywearing community. Soon she was helping to run the site, and now is the site owner and administrator. Christy was thrilled to welcome her second baby in January 2008 and has greatly enjoyed teh benefits of babywearing him from birth.