pregnancy wk 10

Current stage of pregnancy: week 10 GA; week 8 FA; 9 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Things are getting real. We bought our first baby item yesterday, a baby carrier that happened to be on sale. This is the kind of carriers that look like a backpack, not a wrap. I think it's kind of cringe for white people to carry their baby in wraps. African moms have been ostracized and mocked for decades for carrying their child in wraps, and all of a sudden White people discover wraps and it's everywhere and we sell specialized piece of equipment for 30€. Maybe it's an example of cultural appropriation? [pause] I did a quick research and it turned out I was wrong about at least two points: Baby wearing is kind of universal, actually everywhere in the world people carry babies on their back or chest with some kind of fabric, except in the Western White world (Europe, Great Britain, North America) where we decided that using a stroller was the only decent thing to do — being…