to think slings aren't the solution to housework with a baby.

[TheOddity]

Don't get me wrong, I love slings. Use a woven all the time when out and about, never use a pram. I have a ring sling too for pottering round house and a baby bjorn that DH loves for little walks. I can help DS brush his teeth with sling on, can just about reach to carry things from room to room tidying.... But that's it. Anything more and baby cries! Am I doing something wrong? I would love to be proved unreasonable

Here you are...

No Missix Wrex, the only solution is to,put them in a pram, cot, Moses basket etc and stop feeling the need to have them attached to you 24 hours a day. No harm comes to them from being put down for 10 minutes.

Unless you hate the sound of screaming and just accept that babies like/need to be close to a caregiver of course.

I have 4 DC's, I bought a sling for my last one. I think she was in it twice, she killed my back during pregnancy so I thought fuck that I'm not carrying her around any longer. I just did what I did with the previous 3....put them in the bouncy chair in front of the washing machine.

Ummm Lucy no problems here with baby having their own space for ten minutes.

I just hate doing the housework and will MILK my excuse not to do it for as long as possible.

Thing is, the advice is only experienced baby wearers to back carry newborns and I'm not that even if I have a consultation....I do want a solution to the prob but not at risk to the baby.

The consultant can work with you until you are confident. But, a good tight front carry with perhaps a muslin rolled into the top rail to support the head will tolerate most bending over etc.

Witsender that picture is adorable!

Like this: there is a muslin rolled into the top if you can see...

Sorry, pic spammed you as was having a nostalgic flick back through photos

Ooh gorgeous little squish!!!
I am very good at front carry and she is in it a lot of the day. It helps me get a cuppa and do some work for my lesson planning but housework is just baffling me. I have ruled out hot cooking, ironing, dustpan and brush jobs, chemical jobs, bending jobs like washing machine, hanging washing (involves leaning over a first floor balcony), washing up (it wakes her and she cries), beating rugs, changing beds, folding clothes, tidying that involves bending low and picking things from floor..... So that leaves vacuuming then! Any bending squishes her legs and she wakes and understandably gets pissed off with me. I just hear on here so often that it's the cure all to getting things done with a small babe....

YABU to think you have to do housework when you have a baby.