So we had fun making a few new videos of the new Oh Snap carriers by Babyhawk.
One on the basic carrier design
Here’s the carrier with a 6 month old, 3 year old and 5 year old:)
Hope this helps!!!
Archive for the ‘moby wrap’ Category
New Oh Snap video’s
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009A Pouch Sling and Wrap Story
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009My babywearing story so far….By Dana
While I was pregnant with my daughter I learned about babywearing and it benefits. I got very excited and began purchasing carriers in expectation of her arrival. I got a few pouch slings, a couple of rings slings, a Mei Tai and a Stretchy wrap.
A few days after Natalie was born, I asked my doula to demonstrate how to wear her in the sling and pouch. All of those hours a reasearch came together in a few minutes of hands-on learning. It clicked and for the first months of her life, Natalie lived in a pouch. We used it to soothe her in the house and when we were out walking or shopping. I got the hang of the ring sling by the time she was two months old and we still use them all of the time. I still keep the pouch folded in the very bottom of the diaper bag for emergencies.
The one carrier that did not seem to work was the stretchy wrap. Natalie was born in July and I think the heat worked against my efforts to learn to wrap. I was hot and sweaty and she seemed miserable as well, so I gave on wrapping. Once when Natalie was about 5 months old I decided to use the wrap to try to soothe her while teething. I managed a decent cross carry and it was like magic. My cranky, angry, teething, tired munchkin was snoring within minutes. I was hooked on wrapping after that.
I did some research and decided to get a couple of woven wraps, since they are very supportive and Natalie was already about 19lbs. I got a Didymos and a Storchenweige Leo The Leo is my favorite carrier hands down. I love how supportive it feels. After a month of wrapping I can get my daughter on my back in a ruck easily and she is always happy there. She still fusses sometimes in the ring slings but never on my back. This carry allows my to do household chores like laundry and cooking, even when Natalie won’t let me out of her sight. I use front carries for putting her down for naps and this has been a livesaver for me. The Storch has saved my sanity during this very difficult teething period.
One stretchy wrap story
Saturday, February 14th, 2009From Robin
I was so excited to be pregnant, and had seen women wearing their babies in cute little front packs. I thought I might take my baby for walks in one of those, and bought one in preparation. I saw that the warning on the label said not to use the carrier for a baby under eight pounds. No problem! I thought…I was an 8 lb baby, so was my husband, and so was my nephew. I’ll be set!
Then I delivered my beautiful, vocal, 6 lb 10 oz baby. And she lost 7 oz just after birth.
I was panicking. She wanted to be held all the time. She howled when she wasn’t. I couldn’t get a meal, because I had both hands full. I couldn’t read a book, type on the computer, BRUSH MY HAIR, and all because I had delivered a “holdy” baby who wouldn’t take no for an answer. And she was far too small for the carrier I bought. What to do! Then I remembered meeting someone with a long stretchy wrap carrier in Costco. He said he had used it because his little one had been a preemie, born at 5 lbs, and it was the only carrier she’d fit into.
I went on a search, and found a carrier like the one he had, a stretchy wrap. I was so happy to find it. I bought it in a flash, and rushed home with it. When I got it home and looked at it though, it seemed rather….well, LONG. This bad boy was 18 feet of jersey knit cotton. Would this work? I studied the booklet it came with, watched a video on the internet and then wound it around me like it said to do. I slid my baby in according to the instructions and…my baby cuddled into me! And closed her eyes! AND WENT TO SLEEP!
I had just found baby heaven. Thanks to that wrap, I was able to get meals without someone coming to hold the baby. I could leave the house & go for walks. The way it was wrapped was easy once you’ve tried it once or twice, and so supportive that my baby seemed weightless.And best of all, I could give my baby what she wanted & needed (to be held), and still have some freedom myself. My baby came to view the wrap as her ’safe & cozy’ place. She liked to sleep there, and hang out when she was awake too. It was a wonderfully comfortable way to carry her, and I’m so glad I met that man in Costco.