Cheltenham and Gloucester Sling Library

Our next session is on July 8th 10-12. This will be the last session before we take a break for the summer.

**NEW VENUE**
We have been looking for a more child friendly location with storage for our library equipment for a while. We are delighted to have been offered space at Oakwood Children’s Centre and will be trying out this new location for our July meet. More details available on the event booking page.

Venue address:
Oakwood Children’s Centre, Clyde Crescent, Cheltenham, GL52 5QH.

BOOK YOUR SPACE NOW:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-2024-sling-library-session-tickets-937532935247

** JUNE SESSION CANCELLED ** Unfortunately due to reduced volunteer availability we are unable to run our June session. The next sling library session will be on 8th July and we will be trialling a new venue - Oakwood Children's Centre. More details will be shared nearer the time. Thank you for your understanding.

Our next library session is this coming Monday, 13th May. Booking is essential - see link below. To find out more about what to expect a sling library session visit our website.

May 2024 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

It was lovely to see so many families at the Sling Library session yesterday.

As promised to a couple of families, here is a YouTube clip made by Sheffield Sling Surgery and Library, as a reminder for how to use your stretchy wrap:

Stretchy wrap carry, ensuring no slumping. Turn on closed captions for descriptions Pocket Wrap Cross Carry (2 way stretchy wrap) with 5week old baby, taking the time to ensure spine is supported and avoiding slumping or sagging. Please turn...

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our next Sling Library Session on 15th April. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.

Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.

The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)

YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR CONTACT US OTHERWISE YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED

We look forward to seeing you then.

April 2024 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our March Sling Library Session on the 11th March. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

March 2024 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Good morning!!

Looking forward to seeing all the people booked in for the library today.

Please bear with our volunteers as we are down a consultant to help with appointments.

Sam and Tracey will get to you as quickly as they can
But do enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and biscuits whilst you wait and have a chat with our other volunteers

💜💜💜💜💜

It should be working now - human error strikes again!

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our February Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

February 2024 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our January Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

January 2024 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Happy New Year to all the families we helped in 2023 and the new families that we can’t wait to meet in 2024!!

Hopefully you’ve had a restful Christmas and the year has started off well for you!

Just to let you know the next library will be January 15th, so if you borrowed a sling in December you have an extra weeks hire on us!!

Take care and best wishes from CGSL Team 😊

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our December Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

December 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Unfortunately Kirstie won’t be there tomorrow, hopefully she’ll feel better and be able to speak to you all next month 😊

Kirstie has a stinking cold :(
Rather than spread it to all you lovely babies, she will be working from home at the start of this week.

The group visits to Cheltenham Sling Library and BAPS in Cheltenham, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, will not take place.

Please get in touch via or [email protected] if you need to chat.

Image description: A person with brown hair and a green shirt, holding a handkerchief to their nose.

These reviews came up in our Facebook memories recently. It’s so lovely to hear how coming along to Cheltenham and Gloucester Sling Library helped these families.

If you’d like to leave a review, feel free to comment on this post or send us a private message/email!

Late again! Sorry everyone!

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our November Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

November 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

There’s going to be a bit of delay with the link for the next sling library, I had a busy weekend and I didn’t get a minute to sort things

Link will go live at 2pm instead

Once again many apologies

A throwback, but still true! 👶🏼

Dads (and 007s) always welcome at sling library!

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our October Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

October 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Apologies this is a little later than usual! Hope you've all had a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing as many of you as we can next week!

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our September Sling Library Session. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

September 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Thank you to all the families and babies that came to see us in the library today, we even saw 2 set of twins!

Final reminder that there isn't going to be a library in August, we need a rest 😮‍💨
So, if you borrowed a sling today, you've got 2 months hire for the price of 1!

Enjoy the summer (and the good weather 🤞🏻)

We'll see you in September!

(And if you need any help before September feel free to message The Lady With The Slings 😉)

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our July Sling Library Session, there will not be a library in August so don't miss out if you are needing a sling for over the summer. You can book a slot for help with your own sling, carrier, or wrap, or try out our options from our wide selection of carrying options. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

July 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

**********************BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL*******************
Booking is now open for our March Sling Library Session. You can book a slot for help with your own sling, carrier, or wrap, or try out our options from our wide selection of carrying options. Tickets are for a 20-30 minute support session per household (you do not need to book for each separate person) Siblings, grandparents, and any other person in your support network.
Come and enjoy a hot drink, biscuits and chat with our volunteers and other parents.
The event is £5 PER FAMILY. This needs to be paid by PayPal or Cash (please contact us if paying by cash so we can confirm your appointment booking)
YOU MUST PAY VIA PAYPAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME IS NOT GUARANTEED
We look forward to seeing you then!

June 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

A huge, and slightly exhausted, thank you to all of the families that came to the library today and we were really understanding of our circumstances!

We went from having more people to help than we needed to be short of volunteers! So we understand that it might have felt a little rushed (and I was distracted by a little Dylan, and a massive thank you to Lucy from Gloucestershire Real Nappy Project for being a phone holder for YouTube!)

If you have any questions or queries from today, please don't hesitate to message or drop us an email and we can see what support we can offer.

There isn't a library in May (have I mentioned that once or twice??) so slings will be due back on 12th June at no extra cost. I will share the link for this a couple of weeks before as we had a lot of enquires this month. (Shameless self promotion that Tracey runs The Lady With The Slings and is contactable and available for consultations at any other time)

Enjoy the Coronation and all the other bank holidays this May and we'll see you again in June!

We are now FULLY BOOKED! For Monday's library, we look forward to meeting you all then!

Gloucestershire Real Nappy Project will also be there if you are interested in finding out more about the vast world of reusable nappies.

Whilst the library session is now full if you do need any further assistance with slings please feel free to contact The Lady With The Slings based in Stroud but able to travel!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Just checking ticket sales this evening and there is ONE space left. So if you are still wondering about booking, then don't think too long! Don't miss out 🙃😊

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/april-2023-sling-library-session-tickets-594103769367

Seems to have been some gremlins in the system! If you booked these tickets are still valid, just Facebook having a moment I think!

April 2023 Sling Library Session Sling Meets are friendly support sessions with trained Sling Consultants and Peer Supporters helping parents with slings and carriers.

Reminder that the link for the April library (24th April) will be posted tomorrow morning at 9am

Also bear in mind that the next library won’t be until June as we have decided not to run one during May.

Look forward to seeing you there! 😊

COME BABYWEARING SURFING!

APRIL FOOLS! - I don’t think anyone fell for it, but just in case, please don’t go surfing with your baby in a carrier! 😂

Babywearing doesn’t have to be limited to just the land!

If you fancy learning a new skill this summer, why not join Dylan and I for a 4 week course of Babywearing Surfing!!

Don’t be a fool, sign up today! The more people the smaller the price!

BOOKING ESSENTIAL ON LINK BELOW!!

Let’s dive in!!

https://forms.gle/CVVqHUYUQTSF2yfJ6

Thank you to all the families that came to the library for this month, it was lovely to meet you all and we all hope that you found the appointments helpful!

April's library will be on the 24th April, later in the month due to Easter bank holiday. And we have made the decision to not have a library in May due to the extra bank holiday for the King's coronation.

If you have hired a sling today, the return date will be the 24th April (so you get 6 weeks hire for the price of 4!)

Any questions feel free to get in touch