Gardening with a baby- how do you do it?! - Page 2

[LaughingHyena]

We used to have a little swing like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hedstrom-Folding-Toddler-Swing/dp/B000OW9Z3W/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1301063396&sr=8-18 which DD was happy to sit on for a while. If we'd had more space I would have got a full sized frame with a baby seat, that one was outgrown pretty quickly.

She was a summer baby and I know I didn't get much done outside the year she turned one. She would crawl off a blanket and stick stuff in her mouth so once she was fed up of being in the swing or pushchair  I'd had my time.

By the following summer she was not putting things in her mouth and was happy either in the sand pit or pulling a little wagon round the garden collecting pebbles and stuff.

[Snapdragon]

oh, great idea about the toddler swing- I hadn't even thought of that! And a good thing is that I had thought I would be in a community garden this summer but we recently found a place with a nice yard of our own and a garden space so I can have a swing or a swing set for ds!

Edited by Snapdragon - 3/26/11 at 5:56pm

[lovemybabyboy]

I used an Ergo carrier ALOT with my son when he was between 8 and 14 months old.(back position)   That year I also, as someone else mentioned, had a "yard Stroller" even though we don't use strollers elsewhere.  He would sit in the stroller and watch me and look at books or other small toys.  It worked well because I could move him around to wherever I was working and it limited the hands in the dirt factor.  The following season though he was mobile on his own and we no longer used a stroller or the ergo because he wouldn't tolerate either.  He was past the age of putting everything in his mouth (except for the peas) so he was able to "help" me and entertain himself a lot more.  I would set him up with toys or tools.   I did tougher tasks when he was napping.  This year he has already helped me transplant lettuce in the greenhouse and can really do the tasks now that he is almost 3 and verbally communicating.  I have the next one on the way in a few weeks and a 6 acre farm to hold down, so we'll see how it goes with two!   :)