Our daughter is almost 5.5 months old, and we've been wearing her since birth: first in a Moby wrap (on the front, of course), and then in a Sakura bloom ring sling alternating with the Moby (depending on how long, and how much in-and-out was needed) and now in an Ergobaby carrier or the ring sling (depending on the length of the walk - she's now at least 16 lbs!). She loved it initially, and would either look left and right or just fall asleep, but for the last month, carrying her has been a struggle since she is never happy with the position:
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The front carry in the Ergo is the most comfortable for me at this point since it is symmetric, but she now hates it. She will grunt and scream in this position, unless she is really sleepy and I hold a pacifier in her mouth until she falls asleep. She likes hip carrying ok (I also have to use the pacifier in this position somewhat to keep her from fussing), but that position (even if I alternate hips) just wreaks havoc on my back and shoulders if I do it too often. We tried back carrying, but she just uses that as an invitation to yank hard and repeatedly on my hair, so that doesn't work either. What she really wants to do is to be held at my front, facing forward, but looking into this, it seems that it is bad for their back/hip development. In particular, she doesn't even just want to face forward, but even to bend her torso forward from there, so that her upper body is parallel to the ground, like a figurehead on the prow of a ship. We have taken some walks where I hiked for miles with her in this position, and it is murder on my shoulders. She fundamentally also seems to hate being confined, no matter whether we use the Ergobaby or the sling, or the Moby...
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I really want to keep babywearing, but I'm getting a bit frustrated - I'm hoping that someone out there might have some advice? Thanks in advance for reading my post!
