EC in Brazil

Tamara H. wrote:

Congratulations to your beautiful baby! I'm so glad I found your shop. I'm a German midwife living in Brazil and I'm looking forward to showing your things at Brazil's first and only EC group that I'm leading.

Warm wishes,
Tamara
http://www.slingando.com/

I'm so glad you found our shop too, Tamara! I love that my EC products are making their way around the world. Although I've had some go to Chile, these will be the first ones going to Brazil.


Tamara has chosen a great selection of EC trainers and undies to show parents interested in EC. I will be most interested to hear how her talk goes. For now, I must get back to sewing, before baby wakes... :)

New Member of Continuum-Family!

We are thrilled to announce that our baby boy, Malcolm, was born on January 3, 2009 at 11:05 a.m. weighing in at 8 lbs 10 oz and measuring 21 inches long.

This was our third home birth and we are so glad that we were able to be all together, with his two older sisters (Madeline, 5.5 and Zara, 3) on hand for the last 10 minutes to see him arrive.




Here's Malcolm at one day old, snuggling up with his two sisters:



It's still pretty much business as usual at Continuum Family, but we are estimating that custom orders (most items from our CF line, especially pouch slings and baby clothing) will be about 3 weeks from date of order to date of ship for the rest of January.

Consciously Parenting and FREE Teleclass

I can't remember how I came across the Consciously Parenting website, but I wanted to share it with you all. It's a great resource and at this time of year, with all the stresses and pressures of extended family, travel, excess consumerism and the like, parenting consciously can be especially challenging.

A special bonus is that Pam Leo, author of Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear is offering a FREE one-hour teleclass on Parenting Through Connection, on either Monday, December 15 or Tuesday, December 16. Connection Parenting is a book I highly recommend and I'm looking forward to tuning into the teleclass.

Store-Wide End of November Sale - Get 10-15% Off!

This weekend only (Nov 28-30) EVERYTHING in the store is 10% off!! Also, all instock Beco Butterfly II and Pikkolo baby carriers are 15% off!

Free Ship Day - November 17, 2008

We will have a FREE SHIP day -- on Monday, November 17th -- all orders over $50.00 USD placed between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. PST on that day will have the shipping charges refunded. Please note that this offer applies to orders shipping within North America only, but we will refund 50% of the shipping charges to international destinations. Please also note that this offer cannot be combined with any other specials or discounts.

Big in Japan

One of the things I love about having an online business is the opportunity to make contacts with people in many other countries. So far, I have had the pleasure of doing business with many European countries, Australia, and more recently Japan. In fact, this past month I had a surge of orders from Japan for some of my EC-related items such as our Continuum Family baby gowns, diaper belts, and split crotch pants. I found out through one of my Japanese customers that she is going to be one of the main presenters at an upcoming EC conference entitled "Babies do not need diapers -Quest for the lost physical abilities of human body" on November 2nd at Tsuda College and she wanted to have some of my supplies available for people interested. How exciting is that?! I was also able to facilitate a connection between this customer and Christine Gross-Loh, author of The Diaper Free Baby, as they both live in Japan. I had the song "I'm Big in Japan" by Tom Waits running through my head all day after that... :)

Update: Here's a picture she sent me after the conference of her makeshift EC store:

FREE SHIP DAY Extended

Due to some technical difficulties and power outages in our area, our site was unreachable part of yesterday and much of the day today. So, we have decided to extend our FREE SHIP day until 11:59 p.m. PST tomorrow (Tuesday, October 14th). All orders placed up until that time will have the shipping charges refunded. Please note that this applies to orders shipping within North America only, but we will refund 50% of the shipping charges to international destinations.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your ongoing support and business!