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Mary
Bellis
"I didn't invent the idea. I took
an age-old idea that's been going all on over the world for thousands of
years and just adapted it to our western culture..." - Ann Moore
When Ann Moore was a Peace Corps
volunteer, she observed mothers in French West Africa carrying their babies
securely on their backs. She admired the bonding between the African mother
and child, and wanted the same closeness when she returned home and had
her own baby. Moore and her mother designed a carrier for Moore’s daughter
similar to those she saw in Togo. Ann Moore and her husband formed a company
to make and market the carrier, called the Snugli (patented in 1969). Today
babies all over the world are being carried close to their mothers and
fathers.
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