babywearing while grocery shopping! - Page 2

[maymorales]

shopping and walking my dd to school without babywearing would've been...don't know...unimaginable!
i remember snowy days where ice/snow piled up at the corner of each block. If I had to push a stroller through those boulders, we would take 2 hours to walk 10 blocks.
when I moved to suburbia, i couldn't put my ds on the shopping cart. he couldn't fall asleep in those carts. In a carrier, voila! there's an hour and a 1/2 of peace and shopping!

[joshs_girl]

The only problem I have while babywearing during grocery shopping (and right now we use the hip hold in a ring sling) is that she always grabs my samples of apple slices and grapes! The other day I looked down to see the widget had taken a chunk out of my apple slice I was sampling! Stinker! :

[AlwaysByMySide]

I wore DS until he was old enough to sit up in the front. He LOVES riding in the cart. I used to put DD in the main part of the cart, but now that DS can stand, he likes riding in the back, and she'd much rather be in the front.

The racecar carts that I like best are the ones where the car part is on the bottom in the front, rather than as an extra piece that hooks onto a regular cart. SO much easier to push than those mammoth things.

I agree that when wearing a baby, I load onto the conveyer belt much slower. I shop at a place where the cashiers will come out from behind the register, or the bagger will do it, to do the loading onto the belt for me.

One Wal-mart in our area has a cart that has a regular "up front" seat on one side, and the infant reclining seat next to it, and my DD likes that one the best, so she can sit next to her brother. I know Costco has the two regular up front seats as well.

[hrsmom]

Originally Posted by joshs_girl

The only problem I have while babywearing during grocery shopping (and right now we use the hip hold in a ring sling) is that she always grabs my samples of apple slices and grapes! The other day I looked down to see the widget had taken a chunk out of my apple slice I was sampling! Stinker! :

I like the sleeping baby while shopping, too! A few times I've been busily getting groceries and looked down and she's snoozing away!

[lucifugous]

It's definitely the way to go! I do most of our grocery trips on the bus and wearing her is practically the only option. Once I did it with a stroller someone handed down to us- a big Graco travel system. I wore her & folded it up for the bus ride there; pushed her around in the store and put some items in the basket and some in a tote bag I carried; then wore her home while pushing the groceries :P I decided my granny cart works better. She can be worn through the whole thing, especially now that I put her on my back.