About

“Babywearing”..a term we often see in action but fail to recognize its meaning and appreciate its benefits not just to the worn babies, but also to the babywearers and the society we live in.I started babywearing in 2016 – two weeks after my first child was born.

I started using a stretchy wrap. It wasn’t all magic the first time I tried. My son cried incessantly, prolly because he felt the fear and anxiety in me as I am really not that sure and quite confident with what I’m doing. After 3 ‘sweat-full’ and tearful tries, son felt calm and I too, felt like an instant supermom. And as I held him close, and I realized: this works.

That quiet moment—just me, my baby, and the sling—changed something in me. From there, I kept learning, kept wearing, and eventually, began sharing what I learned with others.

Weeks passed, I found myself sewing babywearing gears, with the thought in mind that I will be able to share the all the wonderful benefits of babywearing in my community at an affordable price. As days went by, I saw a greater need for safe babywearing awareness, so I converted my selling/business FB group to Iloilo Babywearing Community, and with the help of other momfriends who are also strong babywearing advocates, we were able to come up and plan our first city-wide babywearing event: Aboy-Aboy Sa Dughan last 2017.

My love for babywearing didn’t stop with just mere posting of video tutes, co-planning babywearing events, doing talks and demos, sewing babywearing gears..in my heart and in my mind, I know I can do more in help spreading babywearing awareness. In mid-2018, I searched for babywearing consultancy trainings and stumbled upon School of Babywearing-UK’s. I enrolled and had my practical training at Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last April 26, 2019 under Victoria Ward’s supervision. It was a surreal experience for me as it was a great leap for me, doing something like this for the sake of advocacy, it was also my first time to travel internationally, and that I was able to see Malaysia (yes, it’s “Truly Asia”, a must-visit country with good people) with my husband and toddler in tow and oh-so pregnant at that time—all for the love of babywearing.

We were given a coursework to be submitted not later than October 28, 2019. Considering that I am about to give birth any time soon, I made it to a point that I will be able to submit my work before the deadline. Day and night, and even during the wee hours, I struggled to do our work and thankfully I was able to finish my requirements last July 3, 2019 and became with a Certified Babywearing Consultant on July 22, 2019 (the first and only, as of writing, and to my knowledge, here in the Visayas, and one of the few here in the Philippines).
*others may see this as bragging, but for me, emphasizing this means that there is really a great need here in our country—that we lack babywearing consultants who can (1) share science-based, updated knowledge on babywearing, (2) help us troubleshoot babywearing difficulties, (3) help us choose appropriate babywearing gears as all parents and babies are unique, with varied lifestyles, budget preferences, and some even have medical concerns that need to be dealt with accordingly.

I am now a homeschooling mom to two growing boys. Balancing their education with advocacy work has deepened my appreciation for presence, patience, and lifelong learning.

In 2021, I expanded my babywearing knowledge by completing another Babywearing Consultancy course through Slingababy UK. That same year, I also took their Breastfeeding Peer Support course and Feeding and Carrying Advocacy course, both of which helped me support families more holistically.

I also founded the Kupo Iloilo Network in 2025, a small and slowly growing community rooted in babywearing and anchored in three pillars: our sling library, caregiver training, and parent support. One of my personal hopes is to revive and celebrate our own heritage—especially the use of the patadyong, our traditional baby carrier and hablon, our traditional fabric here in Iloilo, in everyday babywearing.

I really want to promote the Asian babywearing heritage so I created a group, the Asian Babywearing Professionals. And organized the Asian Babywearing Virtual Meet, an online event together with Babywearing Professionals from different parts of Asia, that brought together advocates, and baby carrier brands across Asia to share stories, strategies, and culture-rooted practices. I have these amazing women who joined me in making this goal happen:
Azizah Al Aziz who represented Indonesia
Ng Mei Theng who represented Malaysia, Singapore and China
Norhani Mohd Nor who represented Malaysia
Masayo Sonoda who represented Japan
Yukana Yanai Nakaima who represented Japan as well
Esther Wong who represented Hong Kong
Dee Burton who represented Hong Kong
Sarah Amnah Zaihan who represented Singapore
Mai Okai who represented Japan
Krisztina Tsunod from Japan as well.

I currently serve as one of the board members of the International Board Certified Infant Carrying Consultants (IBCICC).

I know I still have a long way to go, I still need to learn a lot of things and need more arms and might in order for me to reach out to more people and help spread safe and positive babywearing vibes. And I know that through our collective efforts as a whole, we babywearers, parents, medical professionals, advocates, enthusiasts as a society, we can make babywearing mainstream….again.