good grief - stupid comment

Wha? She walked up to you and said that? I woulda thrown a carton of eggs at her.

Wow...I thought I'd gotten all of the silly comments...sigh...

some people!

Oh please! I'm always baffled as to why people carry infants in those car seat carriers - or worse, stick the carrier in the back of a cart & let the baby cry!! Even when I didn't know about the benefits of babywearing, it seemed weird to me that you would wait all that time for your child to arrive & then put her somewhere besides your arms

my mother has finally come to the understanding that slings are good things. she asked for me to get one for a co-workers daughter. this is after making many comments about them being uncomfortable and unsafe. I think I have converted her.
I don't know what I would do without mine.....I use it for everything, changing pad, shopping cart cover for when mommy's back hurts, cover in the rain...everything. I am moving my youngest to a backpack style because she is over 24lbs and hurting my back but I will never get rid of my ring sling.

Obviously noone's ever clued her in to the pressure carseats put on a baby's tailbone

Yeah, that is not common knowledge. I think most people do not realize that car seats are that 'bad' (which is what above post are implying). I wasn't aware of this to that degree, but limited my sons time in the seat. A pedi friend of mine said that she didn't recommend letting babies take naps in them- but if your child fell asleep and would be woken up if you took him/her out, that once in a while it was okay. (Edited to add: I'm sure she just based her opinion on common sense, not anything that she was taught or on research).

I do know that some people have been unable to get their child to sleep any other way than the bucket seat and asked their doctor's about it. The doctors agreed it wasn't ideal but told them that if it was the only way they would sleep they would tell the parent that it was okay.

Now, I'm sure the doctor didnt' suggest cosleeping over using the carseat- or slinging, but jsut wanted to point out that they are commonly considered acceptable and the benefits of babywearing are not commonly known. I wish I had known more about the car seat issue because someone I know asked me and I just said something like, it is not 'ideal'. I'm sure just knowing that would help parents think about alternatives.

I think when you ahve busy toddlers/kids around it is just 'safter' to have the child in the bucket seats than lying them on the floor- and I sure know I wasn't talented enough to transfer my son from a carseat to the sling without waking him. That is a huge motivator for using the bucket seat- at playgrounds, playgroups, etc.

Jessica