What to know about babywearing and cultural appropriation
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It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to carry their babies in Europe just as anywhere else, and that they probably didn't use baby strollers since the paleolithic. A quick search confirms this:
Such a tradition of babywearing in Europe continued through the early and middle ages [..] In 1733, William Kent invented the first baby stroller. The stroller was initially reserved only for the highest social strata - https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%...
But the use of carriers in Western societies fell out of style beginning in Victorian-era Europe when baby carriages became fashionable. - https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstre...
https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing...
https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbaby... and https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.noseni... - photographic evidence of traditional babywearing in Wales and eastern Europe
My wife and I wore our baby as much as we could, we were aware it was something that makes sense and that people do in many cultures. Being white doesn't mean you have to buy a massive SUV to pack a cumbersome oversized stroller.