Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ghana 101

Lesson # 5,263

Learn how to tie a baby to your back.


All the women carry their children like this, I haven't seen a single stroller in Ghana.

First you hold the baby on your hip then lean way down and scoot the baby around to your back. Then you take a cloth, throw it over yours and the baby's backs and take the top edges and tuck them around your arms. You make it like a bath towel and twist the top edges of the fabric around themselves. Then hike the baby up on your back and take the bottom edges of the fabric around your waist, tie them in a knot and tuck them underneath each other.

I'm definitely NOT an expert at this yet, but thanks to Emelia's sister I met in Sunyani on Friday I got to walk around with her son on my back for a little while. All the people on the street thought it was hilarious but I was just happy to have a baby that didn't cry when it saw me, thinking I was a ghost.

Oh, Ghana!

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