What Is the Experience of Babywearing a NICU Graduate?

Reynolds-Miller, Robyn L; Bedwell, Susan; Laubach, Leann L.; Tow, Joyce C.

doi:10.1016/j.nwh.2020.04.003

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“…Indeed, the practice is often associated with “attachment parenting” a philosophy parenting that promotes physical closeness between parent and child to create a responsive style of parenting (Granju & Kennedy, 1999) which also includes breastfeeding and co-sleeping. The benefits of babywearing are aligned to the importance of touch and the scientific evidence of “skin to skin care” (Reynolds Miller, 2016; Reynolds Miller et al, 2020). The role of the bodies of the mother and child are centralized here and Hallenbeck (2018) points out that while babywearing disrupts the usual mother-pram assemblage and offers the potential for “feminist world-making” (p. 367), this aspect remains underexplored.…”

Section: Babywearing As a Parenting Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Haecceity of Becoming-Mother: A Diffractive Analysis of Babywearing Through a Global Pandemic

Platt

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This paper problematizes notions of good/bad mothering by putting to work Deleuze and Guattari’s haecceity. Focusing on babywearing, it presents an autoethnography of my experiences of becoming-mother during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using diffractive analysis, I analyze the entanglement of my experiences of babywearing, research diaries, images/selfies, the regulations introduced during the pandemic, and the “global cultural script” of being a good mother. It works toward a position of (k)not knowing, being open to the unknown. Under the lens of haecceity, becoming-mother is “thisness”—a middle, knotting, and unknotting, ever emergent.

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Section: Babywearing As a Parenting Practicementioning

confidence: 99%