Return of the Lunchbots!

The Lunchbots have returned to the land of Metro Minis, saving people everywhere from the cursed legion of plastic containers that have plagued the countryside!

In their secret hidden base, at 75th St and Park Ave (near the 6 train), the Lunchbots have organized themselves into a fighting force of stainless steel -- ready to assist with four different sizes and colors!

In their epic campaign to provide eco-friendly lunch containers, the Lunchbots have enlisted a new ally!

Now, with the help if the Children's Stainless Steel Dish Set, the Lunchbots are better than ever!

Create your own team of Lunchbots! All sizes are restocked and ready to assist you!

Free Winter Babywearing Classes Available!

Our Winter Babywearing Class is back!

Just in time for cooler temperatures, NYC's only certified babywearing educators stand ready to teach you the best ways to use your favorite baby carriers while on-the-go during fall and winter months!

The first two FREE classes are scheduled for Oct. 30 at 1pm and Nov. 8 at 2pm!

If you've attended one of our popular Babywearing 101 Classes, you will definitely want to check out this class as well!

Recommend this class to your friends!

Don't let the cooler NYC winter weather slow you down!

Cloth Diaper Photo Contest!

Get your camera and cloth diapers ready, its time for the 2nd Annual Real Diaper Association (RDA) Reusable Cloth Diaper Photo Contest!

Anyone can enter the contest – all you need is a child in cloth diapers and a camera. Entries will be collected from now until November 3rd and there is a special treat for the 12 best photos that are submitted.

What happens to the best 12 photos? They will be used to create the 2011 RDA Cloth Diaper Calendar! And the picture with the highest number of votes will win a Flip UltraHD 2nd generation video camera!

Hmmm….now which diaper should I choose and where should my setting be? The beach maybe? A park? In Metro Minis? A holiday inspired picture? Oh the choices are endless!

Keep your baby warm this Fall/Winter!

Don't let cooler temperatures take away the joy and convenience of babywearing. You can still use your baby carrier when you combine it with cold weather covers.

Made specifically to fit over baby carriers, brands like Kowali, Peekaru, and Ergo have great options for Fall and Winter babywearing.

Fortunately, our free Winter Babywearing Class will be making a reappearance later this year. I will blog the day/time for it as soon as its scheduled.

In the meantime, come into our store and let us show you how to use our many practical and cozy fleece covers!

New research on how to raise kinder children

This probably won't surprise you, but now we have research to back it up.

According to a recent Time article, new studies have shown that babies who are kept closer to their parent and given more positive affection and responsiveness are more likely to grow up into kinder and more intelligent adults.

Babywearing compliments this style of parenting perfectly. Using a wrap or carrier instead of pushing a stroller is always something we've believed to be developmentally healthier for your child. Instead of being pushed two feet in front of you, your baby is right next to you when you're babywearing. And lets be real, dragging a stroller around NYC streets and subways is not something that's very convenient.

This week is International Babywearing Week, through Oct. 12th! Come into our NYC store and mention its babywearing week! We'll tell you our special on baby carriers!

Infant CPR: Every Parent Should Know

Would you know how you resuscitate your infant if the worst happened?

Join us at Metro Minis next Wednesday, Oct. 13, and learn CPR for infants and children, as well as basic first aid and safety techniques.

Topics covered include infant and child CPR; Heimlich maneuver for choking; first aid for bleeding, head injuries, falls and burns; treatment for poisoning; dealing with fever and allergic reactions; and the most preventive measure of all: how to baby proof your home. Practice with mannequins is included.

Instructor fee is $75. Class in session from 2pm to 4pm. Reserve your seat and sign up now!

Taught by Fern Drillings, R.N.

Share your babywearing stories with us!

Help us celebrate International Babywearing Week!

We love to hear from our customers how much they love their baby carriers! Send us your babywearing stories as we celebrate International Babywearing Week, Oct. 6-12!

We'll choose a few stories and post them online, with your permission of course!

Also, join us at Metro Minis for babywearing specials all week long! Just mention International Babywearing Week and we'll tell you about our specials!

Celebrate International Babywearing Week with Metro Minis!

Come celebrate International Babywearing Week with us, Oct. 6-12, while we offer in-store specials on baby carriers! And spread the word about babywearing to your friends - its safe and great for you and your baby!

International Babywearing Week, organized by Babywearing International, Inc., is an opportunity to help focus the world's attention on "babywearing," a term coined by pediatrician and author Dr. William Sears and his wife Martha Sears. Babywearing simply means carrying a baby or young child on one's body using a cloth baby carrier. Not only does babywearing allow parents to have both hands free while carrying their children, studies have shown show this practice is more likely to lead to happier babies who experience more secure attachments to their mothers.

This year's theme for International Babywearing Week is "Safe Babywearing: Enjoy the Benefits."

"International Babywearing Week is a great opportunity to bring awareness to the benefits of babywearing, and to focus on teaching how to wear babies safely," explained Glenda Criss, president of Babywearing International, Inc. "There are a variety of comfortable and safe ways to wear a baby."

If you want to learn how to wear your baby or help your friends learn, our free class on babywearing is a great place to start!

Spanish dads win breastfeeding rights!

(CNN) -- The European Union Court of Justice has ruled that working fathers in Spain have the same right to breastfeeding leave as do moms.

Thursday's ruling grants Spanish dads the same rights as the mother of their child to leave work up to twice a day for a total of an hour or to shorten their workday by 30 minutes for the first nine months of the baby's life.

The court called the law "an unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex" that fathers weren't granted breastfeeding leave in the same instances as women were.

The statute, challenged by Pedro Manuel Roca Alvarez, didn't allow dads to take the same leave afforded to women if the mother of their children didn't work or were self-employed.

The law was "liable to perpetuate a traditional distribution of the roles of men and women by keeping men in a role subsidiary to that of women in relation to the exercise of their parental duties."

...So does this mean we'll see Spanish fathers attending our new NYC breastfeeding support group on Thursdays at 1pm?