AIBU to believe there is no baby on earth who is "too heavy to carry" at six months?

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AIBU to believe there is no baby on earth who is "too heavy to carry" at six months?

Too heavy for a crappy carrier with no waist support and marketable but unergonomic design, definitely.

Too heavy to carry full stop - absolutely not.

Full disclosure - I still carry my 3yo on occasion, much easier to sling than piggy back when her legs get tired.

Don't know, iron. Those wrappers are so bloody noisy.DS1 would react to a chocolate wrapper from a deep sleep :o

I do love that some buggies have a little holder for your beer can, though.

of course, now DS1 is 11, he's not far off being able to carry me around.

Snort at unfit Britain unable to carry a baby.

You're getting no more exercise carrying said baby than pushing the same weight( and a shed load more in a buggy).

Toddlers in slings though,now that is unfit Britain,they need to be walking.At least wih a buggy or buggy board they are more likely to at least walk some of the way.

Also there is nothing to do with being unable many of us simply don't want to be velcroed to a baby 24/7.

Hellrunner I was actually making a joke.... hence the jokey [head tilt] clearly it did not come across that way.

Le petit - I think most who use a sling with toddler keep the sling in there bag until it's needed. Hence easier than pram as your not pushing empty. After 2 year old has walked all day, many get tired and that's when people use the sling to carry them the last bit home instead of just in arms.
Like I said I used recently with 3 year old late at night. He had walked all over Paris all Saturday and Sunday ( miles and miles). On arriving back in London at 11pm he had fallen asleep on train understandably, and that's when I got sling out and put him in in for the 20 min walk home. I wouldn't call him lazy. I call him 3 years old

Why in god's name are 2.5 and 3 year olds still being carried? Barring any disabilities, they should be walking. Our kids are so babied these days that it's rather pathetic.

I agree with Holger

All this pride is for stressed early-mothers to reassure themselves that they are doing a good job. Fine, but don't foist your anxieties onto everyone else in the form of smugger.

Parenting's a long path. Slings etc are early obsessions to make people feel good.

smuggery

OP

you added so many provisos to your second post that it makes it nonsensical to then look at another mum and judge

Yabu. Many, many women suffer from muscle damage and prolapse following birth. Carrying their baby in a sling would be a bad idea esp when breast feeding as the hormones make the ligaments weaker. In RL you will have no idea who has been affected as most people don't want to discuss it.

This threads gone full circle and has turned into a full on bashing against slings. Gotta love AIBU!

So baby carrying is the 'new' breastfeeding? As in other mum's think they have the God given right to tell you how to carry your baby

DS didn't like being in a sling. I tried several and he just didn't like it.

We have a "crappy" Baby Bjorn for DD which is just for occasional use - my children's ages dictate that most of the time we need baby in the pram and buggy board for toddler.

Who gives a shit how someone transports their baby from A to B? Honestly why would it even enter your head?

And being 5ft 2 and my DDs taking after their 6ft 2 father, meant they were nearly bigger and heavier than me at 8mths. Thye were huge!

I miss having a pram. It was a brilliant way of carrying shopping.

I don't judge people who need a pram to transport a tantruming two year old when you need to get the older child to school on time. In my experience the two year has as much of an adversion to a sling as a pram. Unlike a pram a mother gets kicked when the two year has a strop.

Slings are useful in the snow.

Where are all these mums "wearing" their babies? You don't see them round here.

Oh op, if only you'd asked if you were AIBU to think baby Bjorn slings are a huge pile of stinking crap which should never ever be sold anywhere then YANBU.

The biggest downside to a sling however is surely the coffee issue. How on earth are you meant to drink your life saving flat white with a baby in a sling?

Also may have just been me but I kept bumping their heads on various items- the side of the chiller cabinet in the supermarket

I had a sling, but it was not that useful as I could only carry one baby at a time in it. With three under 2.5, the only time I used it was to take the eldest to and from school. I didn't want to buy a triple buggy, and DS2 was not steady enough on his feet to go on a buggy board (motor delay) so I carried one of the babies in the sling.

A sling is not the answer to all babycare challenges.

Baby wearing is the grossest expression, it's a human child not a fucking hat.

DS fucked my back to the extent that the c-section was an absolute walk in the park compared to the back pain, & he emerged at 3.37kg. Why on earth would I want to replicate pregnancy conditions now he weighs more than twice that?! DH sometimes wears a front pack, I refuse to. I did my 9 months.

We had a carrier fitted on buggy wheels a baby Bjorn a buggy and a backpack for hardcore country walking. Used them all loads although dd pretty much walked everywhere from just over 2. She's never been a need to be carried type.

Always makes me chuckle how the hardcore sling brigade scoff at a baby Bjorn.

ReallyTired

Get a trolley. Seriously. When I finally got rid of the buggy, it saved my back.

You can get quite trendy ones now so people don't laugh and make ageist remarks.

there's a baby wearing sling dance class in our town .