About WYSL

The sling library is run by a small group of carrier specialists and local parents. Everyone who works to support families in our service began either as a volunteer or by coming through our doors as a confused and overwhelmed new parent. We’ve been there, we get it.

NICOLA LAWSON

Our founder Nicola works full time as an Infant Carrying Specialist and is hugely experienced – working directly with families for over 20 years. An independent consultant working on carrier development and product safety alongside global brands, an advocate for carrying support, she is an active campaigner for baby carrier safety. A mother of two now bigger kids, she set up the sling library in the very beginning as a resource for the community, and has been keeping it going and growing ever since.

ELLA MARCHAM

Ella started using carriers with her first baby back in 2021, and since then has become a mother of four, including twins. Working in carrying support and as part of our baby carrier safety centre, she is highly experienced and so passionate about baby carrying she has not one but three baby carrying tattoos. As a physicist, she has written about infant carrying safety and dynamics for the Royal Institution, and has a special interest in the science of infant carrying.

ANNA CLAYTON

Anna’s background is in primary teaching, and she is the mother of identical twin girls. So, naturally, she is absolutely fearless! Anna works hard to run our busy drop in sessions, as a baby carrying peer supporter and a highly efficient sling librarian.

ROBERT SUTCLIFFE

First joining us as a volunteer after carrying his own children, Robert works to support families at our drop in services, offering safe carrying information and fitting. Trained as a baby carrying peer supporter, and absolutely instrumental in the set up and founding of the Circle Baby Carrier Safety Centre, he fits in carrying support alongside his job in project management.

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