Tightening/Re-tying the Moby all the time?

[Beauchamp]

Do you feel like you have to constantly readjust your Moby? My LO goes all sideways in the newborn hug hold, which makes me think it's not tight enough. So I make it much tighter (as tight as it will nearly go on my body) and sometimes she cries when I put her in. I keep checking her feet and legs to see if they are caught or turned, but I don't think so. Then once I take her out, the Moby feels like it's been stretched too much and needs to be retied to work for a second hold.

I guess the Moby isn't as user-friendly as I thought. Or it's exhausted-mama-user-error? I just wish my LO felt good in the Moby. Hearing her shriek when I put her in is so awful. I can't tell if it's me, if it's the Moby, or if she just needs time to calm down and relax.

[jmo]

I had similar issues w/ the moby. It seemed like after wearing ds for an hour or so it would really start to sag...esp if I took him in and out at all. Moby didn't really work for me except for the first few weeks when he was really tiny and slept all the time.

[GoGoGirl]

I couldn't make the Moby work at all when I tied the thing on all the way before putting DD in it. I just couldn't figure out how to get it tight enough. It always felt like we didn't have the positioning right.

Now I put it on halfway, put her in it, and then finish tying it. Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-gTJl6JZRg

(I don't do it exactly like the video. I keep her head in the center of my chest, and don't cover it with the wrap. I also spread the tails across her whole back, instead of how she kind of outlines the baby's body with the tails.)

I found it much, much easier to get the Moby tight enough, and have DD in a secure, comfortable position, when I tied the wrap on like this. She weighs 15 pounds now, and I still don't have to tighten the Moby all the time. I do have to untie the whole thing to take her out, but that doesn't bother me.

I'd keep trying the Moby with your baby. I have various baby carriers that didn't work at first (I'm looking at you, Maya sling!) but are working for us now that DD's older.

[ommom]

yeah - the moby stretches out a bit when being worn but i've been able to use the same tie multiple times. i got real good/fast at retying so would just retie if i needed her to be snug so i could be more mobile. if i was just sitting there a looser tie worked OK. you get better at it and it gets easier/more forgiving as the baby gets bigger/more solid.

hope that helps.

[mckittre]

I found it difficult to keep my baby nicely arranged in the "newborn hug hold", but once he wanted his feet out in the regular "hug hold" (which for him was about 3 weeks), it worked much much better. Still use it at 5 months, and hardly ever have to retie it when wearing him.

[CindyCindy]

How old is your baby? Is she straight up and down, and then slides to the side? Is that what is happening? Do you think she would like the cradle hold better? Maybe you need to move up to a woven wrap, that the stretch is just too much and it isn't being supportive enough.

[Beauchamp]

Originally Posted by mckittre

once he wanted his feet out in the regular "hug hold" (which for him was about 3 weeks), it worked much much better.

3 weeks? Really? Oh, maybe we'll have to try this sometime soon. My LO is 4 weeks, and is somewhere around 10 lbs. (maybe slightly less)

Originally Posted by CindyCindy

How old is your baby? Is she straight up and down, and then slides to the side? Is that what is happening? Do you think she would like the cradle hold better? Maybe you need to move up to a woven wrap, that the stretch is just too much and it isn't being supportive enough.

She's 4 weeks. Yes, she slides to the side sometimes, when it's too loose I think. I also think she kind of like to lean. She prefers the hug position, but occasionally likes a cradle hold (I've never tried the cradle hold in the Moby, I just mean being held in arms.) I am a little nervous about the cradle hold, about trying the new hold, that is, because she has cried in the Ergo, and I don't want to "practice" too much and make her cry. Also, I am nervous about the "chin to chest" thing that the Moby instructions mention about the cradle hold--- that is, if I mess it up, she could be unable to breathe. I think I would be tense putting her in the cradle hold, worrying if she is in that bad "C" position (curled up too much)



I have been trying to tie tighter, plus to put the "waist band" higher up on me. (I have a long torso) It has been working better. Thanks for the advice to keep trying, rather than just buying something new. It's not perfect, but it's better.

[almadianna]

Can you find a babywearing group around you? It sounds like you might not be tying it correctly.