Sprout Soup
Ohio's Natural Family Store. The best selection of baby carriers and cloth diapers.
26/02/2021
10/02/2021
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The Sprout Soup Story
It’s been an exhilarating ride!
Families now might not understand where we’ve been and how we got here. My oldest son was born in 2003. Through various online forums I learned about baby carriers and made sure I had some before he came along. The choices were slim then, one of the carriers I had was a Nojo sling, a padded style carrier that did not fit me at all. Our favorite turned out to be a Kangaroo Korner adjustable fleece pouch. The great thing about the fleece is it allowed an upright carry even when he was just a month or so old. I did have to do a bit of sewing on the pouch to make it a bit smaller and fit us better, but I was able to get that sorted out and we were happy through the fall of 2003.
I read online about a carrier called a Mei Tai (now referred to as Meh Dai or Bei Dai) and the popular brand at the time was the Kozy Carrier, made in small batches by a small business, they retailed at the time for $65, which was outside my budget. There were tutorials online for sewing your own Meh Dai style carrier and loosely following one of those plus lots of trials and error I came up with a carrier I loved! I’ll always remember the day I successfully put my son on my back in that carrier, alone, kneeling over our bed just in case!
As the year went on and I met local parents who also were interested in babywearing but didn’t know where to start, I became a babywearing educator without even knowing that was a thing! I let families try the carriers I had and the ones I had made, some families chose to have me create a custom carrier for them, too. The business grew, new designs were created and other small businesses were being started across the country. I signed up to sell Hotslings (a pouch style carrier), Moby Wrap and more. Eventually I switched to completely reselling carriers instead of custom making pouches and Mei Dais.