bECO Baby Carrier Giveaway!

To kick off the summer, we are launching another giveaway and this is a big one... a bECO Butterfly II Baby Carrier!! This is the must-have soft structured carrier, featuring:

• an internal harness that makes it possible for baby to remain in the carrier while putting it on, moving it from person to person or changing from the front carry to the back carry. This feature is especially popular with less confident / brand new babywearers. It makes the back carry very easy and very safe, although we still firmly suggest baby be at least 5 months or older before doing any sort of back carry.
• a removable infant insert that is sold with the carrier, which allows the carrier to truly be used from newborn to 45lbs.
• tall and wide body that supports baby in the proper ergonomic position.

We are giving away one brand new in the box bECO Butterfly II carrier in the Carnival print shown below:

To enter for your chance to win this carrier, please leave a comment in today's post. Please note that comments are moderated. Comments from "anonymous" will be deleted. You will not see your comment immediately after posting so please don't post again thinking your post didn't go through. I will be approving comments several times a day.

Contest is open to Canada and the US only until 11:59 p.m. PST on Monday, May 31 and I'll close comments and announce the winner on Tuesday, June 1. Winner to be chosen by random number generator. To get extra entries (please leave an additional comment for each extra entry):

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Winner of Mother's Day Giveaway!

Our contest is now closed - thanks to all who entered! The winner (picked by random.org) is... Angela A.! Angela, please contact me within the next 72 hours with your mailing address.

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Hope you all have a joyous and blessed day with your families!

Mother's Day Giveaway!

In honour of Mother's Day, we are giving away a gift set featuring two wonderful products from LuSa Organics body care. The gift set (shown below) includes: Ylang Ylang and Lavender Goat Milk Soap, Lemongrass Lotion Bar, and we're also throwing in a luxurious 12" washcloth made from organic bamboo velour on one side and hot pink cotton terry on the other (an exclusive item, not found on our website...yet!). This sent would make a perfect gift for any mama!

To enter, please leave a comment in today's post. Contest is open worldwide until 11:59 p.m. PST on Saturday, May 8 and I'll close comments and announce the winner on Sunday, May 9.

To get extra entries (please leave an additional comment for each extra entry):
~ Follow us on Twitter
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~ Blog about this giveaway and leave the link in your comment
~ Tweet about the contest (tweet ONCE PER DAY ONLY for extra entries and leave the link in your comment(s) please.

Earth Day Sale at Continuum Family!

Our third annual Earth Day sale is on for today only!! Get 15% of many, many items storewide, including all organic and eco-friendly products. I've only got a few slots open for many of my CF custom items so shop early for your chance to get these at a great price!

Children and Nature vs. Technology -- The Garden

I just came across this great little short -- a must watch! "A young girl briefly escapes her mother’s grasp, discovering nature within the city’s chaos."

My favourite part is the look she gives her mother at the end when her mother is trying to get her to take back her video game...:)


The Garden from Jason Stefaniak on Vimeo.

EC with a Newborn

I just wanted to pass along this great blog post on newborn EC from a customer of ours in Quebec, Canada. EC from birth is such a fantastic experience!

Where to Find Continuum Family Around the World

I am often asked if we offer our CF line of EC-friendly baby clothing and accessories at wholesale. The short answer is "sorry, no". While I love the idea of having other small businesses support us in bringing our custom items to as many places around the world as possible, we have made a conscious decision to keep things small here at Continuum Family. For now at least, it suits us best to be a family-sustaining business. We have embraced the business practice of smallering, which means we plan to grow the business only as much as we want to grow it, running our business instead of letting it run us.

That being said, there are currently two companies, Dream Nappies in Japan and Windelmaus in Austria, that are carrying select CF items. Dream Nappies carries our prefold belts and T-shirt tunics/gowns and Windelmaus carries our tiny undies and pull up training pants.

 tiny undies order destined for Austria

While we will remain the exclusive distributor for our CF line in North America, we will review any requests for other international companies to carry our CF items on a case by case basis.