Belly Wrap: Comfort Abdominal Binders

29/07/2022

I was 32… your turn 😉🌸

26/04/2022

Our Grey Belly Wrap has been re-stocked! Its been a production roller-coaster due to some covid-era induced complications with our local providers, but we have finally found a team that meets our high standards. Please visit www.bellywrap.co.za to place your order.

Belly Wrap Comfort Abdominal Binders: Purpose-designed abdominal binders, to provide gentle support and reduce pain after C-Section delivery.

05/10/2021

If only I knew 😂

26/10/2020

The Belly Wrap is easy to Put On:

Lie on your back
Lift hips and slide belt under you, printed side facing your body
Flat end of belt must be on your right side
Wrap the flat end to your left hip 2-3cm below your cut
Wrap the double tab end to your right side and attach
Place underwear outside the belt

08/05/2020

We know COVID-19 is making this a particularly difficult time for our preggie moms. This expert advice will help you and your baby have the healthy and happy experience you deserve 💕💕

An expert midwife on how to best protect yourself and your baby

24/04/2020

🚨PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE 🗯️
🙌🏼 Outstanding video tutorial from Prof Mendelson (Infectious diseases at Groote Schuur) on the CORRECT use of a fabric mask. It's so so so important we adhere to his guidance. 👌🏼

📝 Notes: 😷👇🏼

1️⃣ It should be triple layer or double layer with filter.
2️⃣ Cotton, non-stretch fabric with a high thread count (tight weave) allowing for better protection.
3️⃣ Fasten behind head or ears
4️⃣ Preferable is pleated (3 pleats) for comfort and movement of the jaw when talking, but important it has enough room that it doesn't touch your lips. (Non-pleated masks tend to pull down off your nose when you talk of they aren't sized exactly for your face shape) - requiring touching to adjust which is a big NO.
5️⃣ Make sure the mask covers high on your nose (under eyes) to under your chin. Tip of nose to tip of chin is insufficient.
6️⃣ Don't touch the mask when in use.
7️⃣ Remove it by the strings/elastics, don't touch the front and ensure to keep the front of the mask away from your face as you take it off.
8️⃣ Place immediately in a container for washing, then ironing to disinfect.

🏁 Please share this far and wide on Facebook and What's App Groups...

Let's make Prof Mendelson famous in SA for his great tutorial. (Also, apparently Cyril did it right, it will go over your eyes first and then you pull it down 😉)

🤗 Remember, we are wearing masks to protect others (if we are unknown carriers) as well as to protect ourselves. 🤒

🧐 After seeing masks in use today I was horrified again at how many people had:
1.surgical masks that should be for healthcare workers ONLY.
2. Ill-fitted masks (worn at tip of or below nose / or above chin).
3. Masks that kept slipping down (a risk with the non-pleated, behind ear style).

😷
❤️
🇿🇦 (we are in this together team SA 🇿🇦)

Wearing a mask is now a norm and part of life. Prof. Mendleson shares some tips on the do's and don'ts, to help you stay safe, when wearing your mask, taking...

26/02/2020

This 💟

"They don't tell you you’re going to cry. A lot. You dropped that pacifier on the floor? Might as well throw in the towel. According to your postpartum brain, your partner will NEVER do it right. Your ‘friends’ will drop you like it doesn’t even phase them. You'll check your baby’s breathi...

28/11/2019

🖤 We love Black Friday here at Belly Wrap 🖤
🎊 The first 50 online orders get 20% off, thereafter 10% off from 29 Nov to 1 Dec only 🎊
💸 promo code: BWBF2019 (use at checkout) 💸
🌸 www.bellywrap.co.za 🌸

13/11/2019

Happy Wednesday Friends 🍼🍼👼🏼

05/11/2019

This is absolutely fascinating research. Your baby is not being "difficult", it is part of our evolutionary make-up 🤩💟

Hold your babies, people!! Preferably up, as far as the child is concerned... and much to the dismay of tired parents around the world who are exasperated at an infant’s insistence at holding them standing.

A study by Esposito et al. (2013), published in the Journal of Current Biology, demonstrated for the first time that the calming response to parents holding them is a coordinated set of central, motor, and cardiac regulations and is a conserved component of parent-infant interactions in mammals.

Using electrocardiograms (ECG) to monitor twelve healthy human infants’ heartbeats, along with their behaviour and vocalisations, they recorded mother-infant pairs during behavioural tasks that consisted of the child lying in a crib, being held by the mother who was sitting on a chair ( ), or being held by the mother who was walking continuously ( ).

The researchers found a sustained elevation of heart interbeat intervals due to carrying in awake infants could not be explained by any known cardiac vagal reflex, including the orienting reflex (brief period of heart rate deceleration by mild sensory stimulus), suggesting that carrying evokes a sustained heart rate reduction in concert with the rapid behavioural changes in human infants via a novel mechanism.

The researchers furthermore found that in mouse pups, carrying induced calming responses similar to those in human infants, even though maternal carrying methods differed. This draws parallels between the carrying-induced state evoked in human babies and other mammalian young such as cats or squirrels who adopt a still, compact posture with their hind legs drawn up when maternally carried. The reduced mobility, reduced distress vocalisations, and reduced heart rate appears to be adaptive.

The calming responses evoked by carrying are thought to be an evolutionary measure to increase the survival probability of the infant in cases of emergency escape by the mother and child, and so ultimately works to strengthen the mother-infant relationship. There is adaptive value in this behaviour in carer-infant relationships and, as a consequence, infant survival.

The study found that the effects of carrying on the infant’s parasympathetic nervous system were significant, and it provides a scientific understanding of this physiological infant response that could be beneficial for parents and early childhood educators to understand.

Considering the physiological response of the infant when being carried may lead to greater parent and carer patience, reduced frustration and an increased appreciation of age-old parenting techniques such as and parenting.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)00343-6

28/10/2019

New mommy days are a time warp of feeding and changing ... Who else felt like this was their "every day" for a while? 💟