Knowing how to wear my kids has saved my butt at least twice.
The first time, I had an 18 mo. old who had gotten sick while traveling on a plane. I had to get a screaming child, their car seat, and a week's luggage back to the car solo. I had a wheel contraption for the car seat, so I buckled the luggage to the seat and used a long scarf to tie the baby to my back, so that they didn't scream but instead snuffled unhappily into my nape. That is also the last time I went ANYWHERE without a ringsling until my kids were about 5, which leads to....
The second time got trapped by a snowstorm walking distance from home, with a preschooler and a 13 mo. old in the car. We live on a ridgetop & that's how I found out my car couldn't climb the ridge in snow. (Unsurprisingly we sold it not too long afterwards.) I had the ringsling and an ergo in the car and long story short that's the day I figured out how to rig them up together to carry both kids at once.
But wearing babies being heck of useful in many circumstances isn't the same thing as extreme baby wearing, y'know?
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The first time, I had an 18 mo. old who had gotten sick while traveling on a plane. I had to get a screaming child, their car seat, and a week's luggage back to the car solo. I had a wheel contraption for the car seat, so I buckled the luggage to the seat and used a long scarf to tie the baby to my back, so that they didn't scream but instead snuffled unhappily into my nape. That is also the last time I went ANYWHERE without a ringsling until my kids were about 5, which leads to....
The second time got trapped by a snowstorm walking distance from home, with a preschooler and a 13 mo. old in the car. We live on a ridgetop & that's how I found out my car couldn't climb the ridge in snow. (Unsurprisingly we sold it not too long afterwards.) I had the ringsling and an ergo in the car and long story short that's the day I figured out how to rig them up together to carry both kids at once.
But wearing babies being heck of useful in many circumstances isn't the same thing as extreme baby wearing, y'know?