Why a kanga?

The benefits of carrying your child for both parent and baby

Benefits for you:

1. Hands free.
Carrying your baby in our Kanga keeps your hands free while you stay in physical contact with your child. This way you are nearly unrestricted in all your actions.

2. Easy manoeuvring with the kanga. (Kanga versus Stroller).
Unlike the stroller you will never have to collapse the Kanga or keep room in the boot of the car or find extra space on the train or bus. Going through a busy shopping street will be so much easier than fighting your way through the crowds with a stroller. There is also the big difference in price, with the Kanga being so much cheaper!

3. The many different ways to carry your baby (Kanga versus Front and Back Carriers).
Our Kanga allows you to carry your baby in many different ways and there is no need to move to a bigger size as the baby grows – saving you a lot of money in the long run. The Kanga is big and stretchy enough to support babies of different sizes. The various positions allow you to carry your baby in front of your stomach, on your back or on your hips. Using a regular modern carrier you have at the most two different ways to carry and you will have to go for a bigger size as your baby grows.

4. Carrying Twins.
Our Kanga even supports a method that allows you to carry your twins with you. When they are still very small you can carry one baby in each one of the pieces of cloth going across your chest. This means one baby on your left side and one on your right, close enough together to feel safe with one another and feel safe with you.

5. Very easy to take with you.
Our Kanga is very light and takes up virtually no room in your bag. You can easily fit it in with your other baby-goods and take it with you even if you might only use it later on.

6. Fast bonding between parents and child.
Using the Kanga you will get used to eachother much quicker because you are so close together. In a natural way you will grow close to one another. This can be a great advantage for parents with adopted children because they often need a longer bonding time.

7. Easy nursing.
Another great benefit to the mother is the ease of breast-feeding while the child is in the Kanga. Away from home and in public you can still have the intimacy of breast-feeding. Research has shown that the mothering hormone “progesterone” increases due to physical contact with the infant and that the breasts respond to the infants needs. This means easier breast-feeding, much improved milk supply and increased duration of breastfeeding.

Source:
• Mohrbacher & Stock, 2003
• Ludington – Hoe et al. , 2006
• Dodd, 2005

Benefits for the baby:
The Kanga recreates the environment of the womb. Your baby will hear your heartbeat, smell your scent and wiggle along with your movement. They feel safe, feel at home and feel at ease. They will be much more confident and be able to connect to you easier and quicker.
Extensive research has been done over the years on the advantages of carrying a child in a sling. Here we list just some of the results of this research.

Babies carried in a sling are calmer.
They cry and fuss 43% less overall and 51% less during the evening hours, because all their primal and survival needs have been met.

Infants are more organized.
Parental rhythms (walking, heartbeat, etc.) have a balancing and soothing effect on the child.

Because babies cry less.
They have much more time to spend on looking around and exploring our daily routines. This will help them learn faster. With the baby closer to you it is exposed more to conversation, our social behaviour and facial expressions, which will increase the speech, their social development and familiarize them faster with our body language.

Aggression is diminished because they feel loved and more secure of themselves.

The movement in the Kanga easily puts your baby happily and peacefully to sleep.

Source:
• Dr. W. Sears, 1986
• Tessier et al. , 1998,
• Conde – Agudelo, diaz – Rosello, & Belizan, 2003,
• Ludington, Hosseini & Torowicz, 2005