Introducing our newest look! Boba Carrier 3G, Stuff Sack and Boba Mini are now all available in Safari, our great shade of light, cool khaki. Perfect for long hikes, short treks or just running in and out of the grocery store, Safari gives you the same 3G you love with a sandy kick.

Win the whole Safari line and more with our Boba Safari Giveaway!

To celebrate the launch of this outdoorsy trio of new products, we’re giving away a fantastic Safari prize package! Enter now through Sunday, November 11 to win all three Safari products, one of those great Melissa & Doug giant stuffed giraffes, and the children’s book Starry Safari. Enter here:

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For those of us who love babywearing, love that freewheeling closeness, that do-it-all on-the-go snuggling, every week is babywearing week, every day a celebration of being together in this big colorful world. But this week, we take special pride in holding our little ones close and celebrate around the globe together. This week is International Babywearing Week!

To help spread the love and celebrate the week, we’re giving away a Boba Carrier prize pack with Boba Carrier 3G of your choice, matching Stuff Sack and Organic Teething Pads! Here’s how you can enter:

1. Follow Boba on Pinterest

2. Create an International Babywearing Week board on Pinterest and pin the following items to your board:

• This blog post explaining our International Babywearing Week Giveaway.
• Our safety guidelines from www.bobafamily.com/support/safety.
• Our benefits of babywearing blog post: Babywearing: A Better Way To Move Through Life.
• Our Babywearing All Star Feature on Babywearing International, creators of International Babywearing Week.
• BWI’s International Babywearing Week Video on Youtube.

3. Post your International Babywearing Week board in the comments on this blog post.

Entries will be accepted until 12 noon EST on Friday, October 12 and one randomly drawn winner will be announced later that afternoon via Facebook and the comments of this blog post.

Good luck, good pinning and happy International Babywearing Week!

Edited to add: This giveaway is now closed, the winner has been notified and her prizes have been shipped.

First prize: Molly’s Dude

Molly’s man will receive a Diaper Dude Boba 3G Carrier of his choice and matching Diaper Dude Bag.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Second prize: Christy’s Dude

Christy’s man will receive $120 in gift certificates to Boba and Diaper Dude.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Third prize: Shannon’s Dude

Shannon’s man will also receive $120 in gift certificates to Boba and Diaper Dude.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Thanks again to all the moms who nominated and all the best dads out there! Thank you also to Diaper Dude for the awesome bag and GC inclusions – we love working with you guys! You can check out all the other great dads that were nominated in the comments of the Father’s Day Giveaway blog post.

Great news! We’re excited to announce we’ve partnered with uber-cool Diaper Dude to bring you a new designer 3G! You’re probably well-aware of Diaper Dude and their great, hip products geared towards dads and active families. It’s the same Boba Carrier 3G with all the latest features you know and love, now with two new full-carrier print options geared towards the babywearing men in our lives, releasing just in time for Father’s Day!

The Special Edition Diaper Dude Boba Carrier 3G comes to you in of-the-moment Camoflouge or classic black Pinstripe, and fantastically matches other Diaper Dude products.

Hop on over to our baby carrier store to check out this awesome addition to our 3G line for more details, click over to our interview with Diaper Dude founder Chris Pegula to get some babywearing fashion tips, and read on for a chance to WIN one for the babywearing guy in your life…

Diaper Dude Boba Carrier 3G Father’s Day Giveaway

In celebration of these fabulous new designer prints and to honor all those fabulous babywearing dads out there, we’re giving away a Diaper Dude Boba Carrier 3G for Father’s Day! Now through June 15, submit a short one-minute video nominating that special fatherly dad-tastic Dude in your life, and he could win the Diaper Dude Boba Carrier 3G of his choice with matching Diaper Dude bag (or, should he be a runner-up, $120 in gift cards to diaperdude.com and bobafamily.com).

Happy nominating and happy babywearing! We can’t wait to see and hear all the great things about your guy.

Giveaway entry is open Friday June 8, 2012 through Thursday, June 14, 2012 (contest closes at 12:01 am on the 15th). Winners will be announced Friday, June 15th!

To enter:

• Make a one-minute or less video telling us why your Dude is the best Father!
• Put the link to your video from Youtube, Vimeo, etc as a comment to this blog post (mandatory for entry).
• Tweet the link to your video with the #mybabywearingdude hashtag for an additional contest entry
• Like and follow Diaper Dude and Boba social media per the rafflecopter prompts for even more chances to win!

Prizes (chosen at random):

• 1st place – Diaper Dude Boba Carrier 3G (choice of color) with matching Diaper Dude Bag.
• 2nd and 3rd Places – $60 gift card to Diaper Due along with a $60 gift card to Boba.

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We’re thrilled to be nomiated for a 2012 Cribsie Award for Comfiest Way to Wear Your Baby. Boba Carrier 3G, the newest release of our popular soft-structured baby carrier, was nominated by fans near and far to make it into the finals for this annual online baby gear recognition event, and we’re honored!

Thank you to everyone who took time to express their #bobalove to nominate us for a Cribsie! We love you, too!

Official voting for The Cribsie Awards in all categories opens February 21 and we’ll love and appreciate your vote!

In April 2010, Giving Diapers, Giving Hope was started by Kristen McCarthy and Emily Glover as a local cloth diaper lending foundation for Gloucester, MA.  Within weeks of beginning their local service, GDGH’s Facebook page and email inbox were full of inquiries from parents across the country.  To meet this need, Kristen and Emily decided to expand and accept applications from families throughout the United States.   Over the last 10 months, Giving Diapers, Giving Hope has already managed to help over 70 families cloth diaper their babies.

Because Giving Diapers, Giving Hope expanded so rapidly to meet the needs of families, they are still working to obtain enough funding to file for their 501 c3.  A 501 c3 is needed to become a recognized Non- Profit and will further their ability to help lend free cloth diapers to families in need.

In addition to filing for the 501 c3 Giving Diapers, Giving Hope will use funds raised to purchase office supplies such as business cards and letterheads, packaging materials, and buy supplies needed to repair donated diapers that need them.

On January 25 the Facebook Fundraising Campaign is open from January 25 through February 14 with over $1,700 worth of prizes. Check out the Fundraiser Announcement post and all of the prizes are listed on the Dirty Diaper Laundry Facebook Page. To enter, just like the sponsor’s pages using the easy Rafflecopter widget to be entered to win those prizes.

If you want to do more to help out a worthy cause you can, and you even get more entries into the giveaway!  If you donate any amount, anything, you get 25 extra entries.  Send a donation to givingdiapersgivinghope@gmail.com via Paypal then choose the Donation option in the giveaway.  By donating any amount you increase your chances to win one of these amazing prizes!

To celebrate an awesome year in review, we’re sponsoring a fabulous new contest to kick off 2012! Announcing the My Favorite Baby Carrier Video Contest!

Is Boba Carrier your favorite baby carrier? Post a video on our Facebook page telling us why and you could win a fabulous Grand Prize package worth $380 including:

• Boba Pack with your choice of print
• The NEW Boba Organic Cotton Baby Wrap
• Kowali Baby Carrier Cover
• Rumparooz Cloth Diaper and Wet Sack
• Smart Mom Teething Bling, Onesie and T-shirt
• $50 Amazon Gift Card

Also, two Runners Up will each receive the new organic cotton Boba Wrap ($65 value).

Contest is open for submissions January 23 – February 1, 2012. Only videos posted directly to the Boba Facebook Page wall will be considered. Videos should include Boba parent, child and Boba Wrap or Boba Carrier of choice. Entries will be judged by Boba Staff and Boba Ambassadors on completeness and creativity, and winners will be announced here on the Boba Blog February 8. (Please limit your videos to 2 minutes, thanks!)

Looking for a little video inspiration? Here are a couple of recent Boba fan videos from two of our Boba Ambassadors:

What I Like About the Boba 3G – Video by Lin (with Simon and Maya)

I Love My Boba – Video by Lori (with the Gnome)

We’ll be tweeting about all of the reasons we love wearing our little and not-so-little ones in baby carriers and baby wraps of all kinds. Has babywearing made a big difference in your life? Be sure to pop by!

We’ll be giving away two Boba Carriers, a Boba Wrap, & a Boba Pack!

Time: 9PM EST
Theme: I Love Babywearing!
Follow: Twitter.com/Boba and Twitter.com/Boba_Support
Hashtag: #bobalove

New to Twitter parties? Read this first: http://www.twitterpartyguide.com/what-is-a-twitter-party

The giveaway ends Saturday, December 17^th.

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