Congratulations to our Medalists for our #babywearingUSA Event!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Red, White, and Blue babywearing event! Loved seeing your USA pride and your babywearing pride at the same time! #babywearingUSA
Congratulations to the winners!

GOLD MEDAL: Lindsay Amicone

SILVER MEDAL: Mallory Over

BRONZE MEDAL: Emily Merkel

The gold medal winner will receive $5 off a new membership or renewal OR the opportunity to borrow two carriers at a meeting!

The silver medal winner will receive an item made from a woven wrap!

The bronze medal winner will receive a BWI of Cleveland car decal!

***Please email volunteer@bwiofcleveland.org for instructions on claiming your prize!

COMING UP! Event Number Three: Overcoming Obstacles #babywearingforthewin

This next event is all about how babywearing has helped you, your family, or your child! For Event Number Three: Overcoming Obstacles #babywearingforthewin, we want to see photos showing how babywearing has helped you overcome an obstacle. Maybe you had a newborn with colic, or an infant with separation anxiety….or maybe you just needed to get the dishes done! We’d also love to see photos of how you overcame a babywearing obstacle! Maybe you were too intimidated by the loooong stretchy wraps with your firstborn, but learned to love them with your second! Or maybe you could never quite get a good fit from a buckle carrier, until you came to a meeting and found the perfect fit!

In the photo above, volunteer Stephanie Herb shows how babywearing helps her and her daughter get through “patch time” during which her daughter needs to wear a corrective patch! Snuggles and love from mom are the best remedy for an uncomfortable babe, and babywearing makes it that much easier!

Whatever the obstacle, we want to see photos of how babywearing helped you!  Post as many photos as you'd like in our Facebook Group and be sure to vote for your favorites by clicking the "like" button!This contest will run through Saturday, August 13th! Good luck!

Congrats to our Medalists for our ‪#‎summerwearinggames‬ Event!

EVENT NUMBER ONE WINNERS!!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our first event in the Summer Babywearing Games! We loved seeing all the photos showing how babywearing helped you to enjoy the summer!

The person with the most votes was our very own educator, Rebekah Kelly, who shared a wonderful photo of herself wearing and breastfeeding at the ocean!

But since we’d rather give these awesome prizes to our fabulous members, here are the real winners!! For the folks who tied on number of votes, we used a random number generator to determine the medal winners. ***Please email volunteer@bwiofcleveland.org for information on how to collect your prize!***

Gold Medal (16 votes) - Abby Mosher

Silver Medal (13 votes) - Carleen Almasy Johnstone

Bronze Medal (13 votes) - Jenn Rose Baker

The Gold Medal winner will receive either $5 off a new membership or renewal OR the chance to borrow two carriers from one of our monthly meetings!

The Silver Medal winner will receive an item made from a woven wrap!

The Bronze Medal winner will receive a BWI of Cleveland car decal!

Now on to Event #2: Red, White, & Blue #babywearingUSA!!

In this event, we want to see your photos that show your USA pride while babywearing!! Whether you're wearing a red, white, and blue wrap, attending a 4th of July parade, or your little one is waving an American flag - we want to see your pics!! Post as many photos as you'd like in our Facebook Group and be sure to vote for your favorites by clicking the "like" button! This event will run through Wednesday, August 10th!  Good luck!

Summer Babywearing Olympic Games!

Welcome to the First Summer Babywearing Olympic Games!

Games will start on Friday, August 5th and there will be 5 medal competitions, plus a grand prize. Each competition will last for 3 days. To enter, you'll need to take a photo or video that fits with the theme of the competition and post it to our Facebook Group with the appropriate hashtag. To win, you need people to like your photo! The most likes for each contest takes the gold, second is silver, and third is bronze. Pictures must be received by midnight on the last day of the contest. By entering this contest and submitting your photos, you agree to allow BWI of Cleveland to share your photos on our chapter blog.

Prizes will be awarded for gold, silver, and bronze for each event. Prizes must be claimed by September 31, 2016 and have no cash value. Prizes may be transferred, but are only good for BWI of Cleveland and may not be applied to any other BWI chapter. Prizes may not be combined. (If you win twice, you can give away or forfeit the lesser prize, and the next photo in line will be moved up.) You may enter each contest with as many photos as you'd like. At the end of the Games, all of the gold medalists from each event will be entered in a Grand Prize contest, for an even bigger prize!

Here's the event schedule:
August 5th through August 7th - Summer Wearing Games: Photos of you enjoying the summer while babywearing! ‪#‎summerwearinggames‬

August 8th through August 10th - Red, White, and Blue: Show your USA pride while wearing ‪#‎babywearingUSA‬

August 11th through August 13th- Overcoming Obstacles: What babywearing obstacles have you had to overcome? ‪#‎babywearingforthewin

August 14th through August 16th - Relay Race: Share photos of your child being worn by different friends and family members! #babywearingrelay

August 17th through August 19th - Babywearing Quadrathlon: Share photos of yourself wearing each of the 4 main types of carriers - buckle carrier, mei tai, ring sling, and wrap! #bwquadrathlon

August 21st - Grand Prize Contest

Good luck everyone and Happy Babywearing!  Let the Games BEGIN!

Event #4 Olympic Rings of Babywearing

So many tiny squishes!!  If I wasn't already 16 weeks pregnant, I would have major baby fever from all of these precious photographs!  Hurry over to our Facebook group so you can cast your votes for our final medalists (and don't forget to vote for yourself!) Voting closes at Midnight on Friday.
 

 

Event #4

Olympic Rings of Babywearing: Incorporate sling rings into your favorite carry

 

 

Put your thinking caps on.....

Our next, and last Olympic event photo contest is your take on the motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger" ****please note, any grossly unsafe Babywearing pictures will not be considered. Please, please keep your baby safe while planning your contest entry. This may seem like common sense but other BWI groups did have an issue with it.

Congrats to our Medalists for the Overcoming Obstacles Challenge!

The votes have been tallied and the winners announced! 

Congratulations to our 3 medalists in

Event #3- Overcoming Obstacles

 

 Aya Goodrich took home the gold medal
 Nicci Sample took home the silver medal
 and Terra Dorn took home the bronze medal

 

Aya won $10 off her membership, Nicci won $5 off her membership and Terra won a 13th month free!  Just for taking a pretty picture :)

Awesome job ladies!

Next up is the Olympic Rings! Let's see those ring slings and ring carries ladies!! Contest is open for entries until Wednesday at midnight and then voting goes until Friday at midnight! I'm excited to see what y'all come up with!

Event #3 Overcoming Obstacles Challenge

Babywearing doesn't always come easily. Just like true Olympians, we often have obstacles to overcome while learning.  I was so inspired by the submissions of this weeks challenge- you have all come so far and should be incredibly proud of yourselves!  Bonus points seeing so many Daddy's! Hurry over to our facebook group so you can cast your votes for our final medalists (and don't forget to vote for yourself!) Voting closes at Midnight on Friday. 

Event #3

Overcoming Obstacles: What babywearing obstacles have you had to overcome?

 

 

Congrats to our Medalists for the Red, White and Blue: Show your USA pride Challenge!

The votes have been tallied and the winners announced! 

Congratulations to our 3 medalists in

Event #2 Red, White and Blue: Show Your USA Pride

 

Heather Knight took home the Gold Medal
 Brittany Myhal Fenstermaker took home the Silver Medal and Heather Rowe Tinsley took home the Bronze Medal

Heather won $10 off her membership, Brittany won $5 off her membership and Heather won a 13th month free!  Just for taking a pretty picture :)

Awesome job ladies!

Today starts the Overcoming Obstacles photo challenge. Babywearing doesn't always come easily. Just like true Olympians, we often have obstacles to overcome while learning. I can't wait to see what photos y'all have of overcoming babywearing obstacles!

Event #2 Red, White and Blue: Show Your USA Pride!

Another beautiful collection of photos this week! We asked you to show us your USA pride and goodness did you deliver.  I am going to be really sad when our Babywearing Olympics are over because I have enjoyed seeing all of your photographs so much!   Hurry over to our facebook group so you can cast your votes for our final medalists (and don't forget to vote for yourself!) Voting closes at Midnight on Friday. 

Event #2

Red, White and Blue: Show Your USA Pride!

Congrats to our Medalists for the Winter Wearing Games Compition!

The votes have been tallied and the winners announced! 

Congratulations to our 3 medalists in

Event #1- Winter Wearing Games: Winter Themed Babywearing Pictures!!

 

 

Rebecca Sultzer took home the Gold Medal

Terra Dorn took home the Silver Medal

Karyn Tankersley took home the Bronze Medal

 

Rebecca won $10 off her membership, Terra won $5 off her membership and Karyn won a 13th month free!  Just for taking a pretty picture :)

Awesome job ladies!



 



Get your camera's ready for the next event!

2/15/14- Red, White, and Blue: Show your USA pride

Event #1- Winter Wearing Games: Winter Themed Babywearing Pictures

Can I just say how excited I am about our first set of submissions for the Babywearing Winter Olympic Games!  You ladies did an outstanding job!  I wish we could award each and every one of you a medal, but alas Only 3 get to take away the Gold, Silver and Bronze.  Don't forget to cast your vote at our group page on facebook!!  

 

Event #1- Winter Wearing Games:

Winter Themed Babywearing Pictures

 

Get your camera's ready for the next event!

2/15/14- Red, White, and Blue: Show your USA pride

 

 

 

Babywearing Winter Olympic Games!

Welcome to the first Babywearing Winter Olympic Games! Games will start on Saturday, February 8th and there will be 5 medal competitions, plus a grand prize. Each competition will last for a week. To enter, you'll need to take a photo or video that fits with the theme of the competition and post it to our group page. To win, you need people to like the reply with your photo. The most likes for each contest takes the gold, second is silver, and third is bronze. Pictures must be received by midnight on the 5th day of the contest. Members will then have two days to vote.

Gold medalists get $10 off a BWI membership or renewal, Silver gets $5 off, and Bronze gets a bonus 13th month. Prizes must be claimed by April 15,2014 and have no cash value. Prizes may be transferred, but are only good for BWI of Cleveland and may not be applied to any other BWI chapter. Prizes may not be combined. (If you win twice, you can give away or forfeit the lesser prize, and the next photo in line will be moved up.) You may enter each contest with as many photos as you'd like. At the end of the Games, all 5 Gold medalists will be entered in a Grand Prize contest, for an even bigger prize!

Here's the event schedule:

2/8/14- Winter Wearing Games: Winter themed babywearing pictures

2/15/14- Red, White, and Blue: Show your USA pride

2/22/14- Overcoming Obstacles: What babywearing obstacles have you had to overcome?

3/1/14- Olympic Rings of Babywearing: Incorporate sling rings into your favorite carry *feel free to contact a group leader to check sling rings out of our lending library*

3/8/14- What is your *safe* Babywearing translation of the motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger"?

3/15/14- Grand Prize Contest


Good luck and have fun!!