Memory refreshed!

People say that your likes and dislikes change with age and time. May be some of them are so close to your heart that they never change. One of the likes or you can say a dream of mine to carry my baby on my back never changed.

I know it sounds ridiculous but this is true. I remember when I was a teenager, a tribal woman used to come to our house to help my mother in household work. She had a daughter, which she would tie on her back and do all the work. She would come once in the morning and again in the evening. I would wait for her to come in the evening, so that I can play with her daughter and tie her on my back as her mother did. In the morning, I would easily miss the school and play with her. But I knew that is not going to happen so I never insisted.

In the evening, I would force that tribal woman to tie her daughter on my back the way she ties her daughter on her back. She would tie her daughter on my back with a long cloth. At that time there was no fancy sling like these days in the U.S to carry babies on the back. Even if it was, that tribal woman was so poor that she could not afford it. More over slings are not so popular in India, at least in the city where I lived.

It gave me so much pleasure. I would play around, look at myself in the mirror and feel as if I have grown up so much to carry a tini-tiny baby all by my self. The funniest part was that I would insist my mother to give me some household work to do, so that I can do that work while she was still tied on my back. I would act just as her mother did.

Now that I am a mother myself of a tini-tiny baby, the first thing I did after delivery is that search for a suitable sling to carry my daughter. I have seen many women in the U.S carrying babies in a sling but in the front or on the hip, which I never liked. I wanted some thing comfortable and less strenuous on my back. Moreover, the front sling is not good for the baby either as they baby keeps hanging. While in the back sling, the baby can sit comfortably. However, it is just my choice and may be others may not agree with me.

To my utter happiness, I found one on Amazon and I immediately ordered it. I have not tied my daughter yet as she cant hold her head yet. I have to wait for one more month and then I am ready to go anywhere I want with my hands free, work at home. I do not know how I will feel, but for sure, it will remind me of my several childhood memories of .