I have just seen a parent on a bike with a trailer containing 2 toddlers (fair enough), and wearing a baby in a sling. Tell me just how U I was to raise an eyebrow...

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Sling was one of those front-facing, Baby Bjorn type things. Baby would have been too small to go into a child seat (it looked about 4 months), which I guess is why it was in a sling (it would have flopped around in a carrier).

Given that I've long carted my now teen around in a tiny sportscar that would disintegrate in a collision, and that when he was little (from about a year to 4 iirc) he rode in something like this , my reaction is hypocritical and unreasonable, no?

Actually, is it even legal to carry a baby in a sling on a bike?

Trailers can be safely used from birth if you have the correct seat for them.

They are also very safe, 5 point harnesses,stable, and a robust aluminium roll cage in case it does tip.

Because they are relatively unusual drivers are also more likely to notice and register them.

They are so low though

Would you use them in traffic?

YABVVVU she was wearing a sling which makes her better than any other non-babywearing parent, dontchaknow.

I know a mum who has just had her second baby and has got one of those Christiansen bikes with a trailer bit on the front. The toddler sits in a seat with straps and a helmet and the baby is in a car seat which is tethered in. Seems safe enough but apparently the bike was something like £2k!!! And she was riding it within a couple of weeks of birth, and I know she had ha massive tear. Ouch.

Happens all the time in the Netherlands.

I cycle on an upright mama-bike myself, childseat on back with oldest son, the 10 week old baby in a chest sling. It's quite usual. I love seeing families out with mother and father on bikes and a duckling-trail of 5 kids behind all on increasingly smaller bikes with big tall flagpoles on them so cars can see 'em.

Mind you every road has its own dedicated cycle path and cycles are very much top of the transport pyramid here, way higher than cars. I laughed out loud when i realised that having a cycling-phobia is seen as a very major mental health issue here .... really.

Wouldn't do it in the uk, where the cyclepath network is extremely patchy, no.