With Seb gone I have been making fine use of my Moby Wrap, using it for when I need to do some sewing and cooking and especially for when I go galloping through the house to hear the most extraordinary baby giggles--something that I need to hear at least once a day. I always seem to have babies that refuse to be left in contraptions designed to keep babies occupied and with Little S it was tough and I wrung my hands a lot over it. Fisher Price never invented the magic thingy that allowed me to be arms free. But truth be told I think I've learned to love baby wearing and holding and hands-free baby raising isn't really my style and maybe it never was.
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I'm not a total earth-mother "martyr" because I do have the infamous FP bouncer seat, you know with the musical fish bopping to Mozart, a garage sale find that I keep in the kitchen because I can´t always work close enough to the countertops to chop things when she´s wrapped, and there´s the whole issue of burning the baby that kind of freaks me out. So she does have moments out of my arms. But she only lasts in the bouncy seat about ten minutes max and then she gets frantic, small woman trapped in a burning building--flames licking her heels frantic. And so I pick her up and wrap her.
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She's very spoiled and yes so was the last one. It all started with him. I´ll have them to blame for my bad back in old age. But I do love that feeling of having them right up against me.
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And by the way can you spot the tornado boy in that photo?
4 comments:
So how easy is the moby wrap to use? I'd seen women using sarongs and figured i would do that, but once A was here found it too complicated and bought a couple of slings. However neither work well with carrying her on my back. I've heard the Moby works well for that, but it looks to me basically like a sarong. Is it more structured than that? Is it easy to wrap?
A, at 21 months, still likes being carried, and I don't mind it, but need to carry her on my back. I don't want something too structured as I want to be able to put it into a small bag or under ths stroller when not in use.
And A was the same way about the bouncy seat. It was good for a few minutes, but she has always prefered to be part of the action. I didn't carry her all the time out of some notion of it being 'better' but of necessity!
Cute! Both the baby bundle AND the tornado boy.
Cherise - the Moby wrap is for the first years because it´s quite stretchy and has a lot of give and so when the child gets to be a heavier toddler it isn´t as snug. I have a Maya Wrap for the later stages which I´m eager to use because it´s soooo pretty!
On the Moby Wrap web site you can watch videos to help you tie it and those vids will work with all sorts of wraps, not just Moby. It´s very easy to tie. You get good at it after a few weeks!
I had a really stretchy baby carrier that was similar to the Moby wrap but it was too stretchy for me! I felt like the baby was always about to fall out, except when he was very small and still fairly light. After that I could never use it.
I see Little S's blond head flashing past in the corner there!
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