East Tennessee Valley Babywearers is a Peer to Peer Support Group. Our goal is providing parents and caregivers in the East TN Valley area with support and education in the practice of wearing babies and children in carriers. The practice of babywearing is beneficial to caregivers to be able to continue needed daily activities, chase after older children, sometimes even go back to work! Babies and
children also benefit from babywearing in much the same ways as skin to skin and kangaroo care provides, to keep them in a "quiet alert state" which encourages brain development, less crying, and more! East TN Valley Babywearers has trained mentors to support the community at monthly meetings, events, and play dates, as well as encouraging friendship and community building. We recognize that childcare is a hard job and we want to help build a community of support that will provide tools to ease some of the daily challenges that arise. We offer hands on help with carriers from our learning library which are free at classes and events. Our lending library is open to those who donate to the lending program to be able to be taken home for a period as well. We also urge caregivers to bring any carriers they may already have to any meeting, class, or event. We want to bring accessibility to all caregivers and will be constantly evolving and growing to achieve that mission.
