Infants and young children are carried in all cultures in which the stroller is not enforced as a means of transportation. Two-thirds of the world's population carry their children today. (Mann, Schrader, 1995)

Just 200 years ago were also worn in Europe, infants and young children on the body of the mother, this poor but predominantly in the layers. In the wealthier classes, the relationship between parents and children was more distant, those who could afford to let his child by breast nurses and care of nannies. The first baby carriage, in the 19th Century arose, spread initially in such circles. In England, Queen Victoria made the stroller respectable. 1846 Ernst Albert Naether founded the company in Zeitz ZEKIWA, the stroller as a mass-produced items. ZEKIWA was temporarily Europe's largest stroller maker. Since then, the tradition of wearing always went back.

In the industrialized nations to wear has become very rare nowadays, an exception is Japan, which even today still has a vibrant tradition of wearing. Children today are almost exclusively worn in developing and emerging countries on the body of the parents, but there are buggy, sometimes as a sign of prosperity, so that there is observed a slow transition, as in Europe in the 19th Century took place.

There are besides various other baby slings baby carriers (see below). Through this offer on the market, the proportion of parents who take their children back since then, remains very low.