My Favorite Baby Carrier Blog

I recently went on a 2 hour hike with several other families. I had my ERGO front pouch that held sunscreen, a small digital camera, Kleenex, and a couple of snacks. In the zippered pocket of the ERGO itself I had a diaper and wipes, and on my back was my baby. I had my Nalgene water bottle clipped with a caribiner onto the black webbing part of one shoulder strap, we both donned our sunhats and we were ready to go.

Other than my water bottle, I had no added weight. The framed carriers that many people were carrying looked so heavy – especially those who filled up the ample storage area. And because it was a wide gravel trail, a few people opted to use jog strollers. One Mom was having a terrible time, because her daughter wanted to be carried, not strolled, and her stroller was so full of stuff that it was had to push.

When my daughter wanted to walk for awhile, I just unbuckled the chest strap and slid her down my back. Later I swung her back up in. It wasn’t a big ordeal, like with the framed carriers and when I wasn’t carrying her, I didn’t feel like I was carrying a thing.

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So there we were in a long maze-like line for the Buzz Light Year ride – no access to a bench – and my 23 lb. 16-month-old (who is on my back) begins to fuss and sign “milk”. I knew that nursing was the only thing that was going to work and if I didn’t act quickly, the fussing would soon turn into loud crying. So, I loosened the hip belt a lot (she is 100th percentile for height, so I need the carrier to be as low as possible for nursing), let out the shoulder straps (they are always tighter in the back position), unfastened the chest strap, and while holding onto my baby, joggled her and the carrier around to the front position (a bit toward the side I planned to nurse on), re fastened the chest/back strap, lifted the top layer of my nursing shirt and she was instantly quiet and contentedly nursing. Not only did this whole procedure take less than a minute, but it was completely discreet. I doubt the people in line right next to me had any idea what I was doing. I say this, because I have often nursed (with a nursing shirt) using the ERGO and people say, “Oh look, she is sound asleep”. I can’t imagine what I would have done without my ERGO. There was really no options for sitting down in that situation. And holding her in my arms to nurse her would not have worked very well either – first, she is pretty heavy to hold for that long and second, she has a habit of pulling my shirt way up and if I am holding her with both arms, I can’t combat that – when she is in the ERGO, I have my hands free to maintain my modesty.

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