Baby wearing: Wraps and slings

When I got pregnant I read as many things as I could about pregnancy and what to expect after delivery. One thing I kept running into was baby wearing. Baby wearing is the act of wearing your baby around in a sling, wrap, carrier or other device that allows you to strap your baby to your body.

When you look at the websites on baby wearing they list many benefits for it, closeness to your baby, the ability to care for them immediately, the ability to get things done around the house while still giving them attention. And most baby wearing products tend to take the strain of holding your baby off of your back and arms.

As someone who was interested in baby wearing I looked into the options. I ended up getting a baby sling off a site online, it was free, I just paid shipping and handling. I also got a baby backpack style carrier from a baby shower. The baby came and he was rather small for the backpack at first, but eventually he grew into it and Kevin began to wear it with him. I on the other hand  used the sling. I kept looking around though, I kept seeing things about Moby wraps and after doing some looking around found this website that shows how to make your own Moby wrap type wrap: Wear Your Baby. The site also shows different holds for the wrap, and it shows how to make a baby sling similar to the one I currently have.

I bought material and cut one of the swaths up like they instruct and then tried out some of the holds. But I am a larger and taller woman and the wrap was tight and it seemed to be uncomfortable for Davy. So I just kept using my sling and every so often tried the Moby wrap again but usually used the sling.

Then a few days ago I began talking to one of the ladies at church who also wears her babies. She has a ring sling and I was interested in how it worked and how she liked it. She loves her ring sling and even breastfeeds with it. She is a distributor of them and said that she would send me a link to the website. Well that night I went and looked around and found the website. I was interested in finding it because it had a pattern on how to make your own ring sling. Maya wrap: make your own sling I looked it over and discussed it with Kevin and he said that I should try to make one when we got a sewing machine, which is something we plan on doing sometime in the near future. In the meantime we discussed it and I decided to purchase a ring sling, which I did off of etsy.

Once I have experienced the ring sling I will post again and report on how I like it. I am looking forward to trying out nursing while having Davy in the sling, because currently I use the nursing pillow at home and just hold him when we are away from home. Having something to help support him when we are away from home will be nice.

Icky stinky diapers

So after wrestling with our diaper genie quite a few times to get the bag of stinky diapers out of it Kevin and I finally decided that enough was enough and we were going to get a different diaper pail. So yesterday we went to Target and got ourselves a Baby Trend Diaper Champ.

Last night we unpacked it and put it together and started using it and let me say right now, we love it! No more wrestling with a diaper pail to get it set up and then to empty it. The pail is set up much like a trashcan, and it takes regular 13 gallon trash bags (which cost much less than a refill canister). The way the pail works keeps the diapers away from view and from sniffers so that you don't smell the diapers or see them. And when things are full and you want to dispose of the bag you can easily take it out and throw it away, much like any trashcan out there. So nice, I recommend it to anyone looking for a diaper pail, and great thing is it is only about $29 at Target, which is not too bad considering. If you can find one from a thrift store then even better!