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== Practicality of babywearing ==
[[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection People 007.jpg|thumb|right|150px|A traditional [[Nez Perce]] [[Cradle board|cradleboard]] (1911).]]
Babywearing allows the wearer to have two free hands to accomplish tasks such as laundry or cooking while caring for the baby's need to be held or [[breastfeeding|breastfed]]. Babywearing offers a safer alternative to placing a [[car seat]] on top of a [[shopping cart]]. It also allows children to be partinvolved ofin thesocial actioninteraction and to see the world from aas everyone tallerelse perspectivedoes.
 
Many sling users have found that it is easier on the back and shoulders than carrying their infant in a car seat. The weight of the child is spread more evenly across the upper body.