To think it is NOT OK to carry a tiny baby in a Baby Bjorn while on a bike?

[Daffodilly]

Basically DH thinks it would be fine, I categorically don't think it is safe or reasonable thing to do.

So am I right or just being "overprotective"?

You're right. It's silly. You'd have no control how you landed if you were hit. Bigger children on proper seats at least have some protection.

He's being an eejit.

Also he'd be leaning forward so the baby's head would be hanging back.
It's one of those typically dumb things that dad's think you can do with a new baby...

dads not dad's

I'm pretty sure it isn't recommended. Would also throw your DHs centre of gravity so his responses would be different.

Yanbu.
No way would that be okay.
I loved my baby carrier, but for WALKING with, not whizzing around on a bike.

Good lord,

if my mother could see this...

She does not think baby carriers are safe at all just incase you fall over while walking!

Insane. Baby would have no helmet. And all the other thinsg people ahve said. Really the human race would have died out if it were made up of partheogenetic dads....

No. Definitely not a clever idea.

(And I speak as someone who generally has a baby tied on somewhere and is quite blaisé about it.)

I've seen parents riding a bike with a baby in a sling, child in a front seat and child in a back seat. No helmets.

Very silly thing to do.

You can get carts that will carry a baby car seat behind a bike, presumably they are safer.

Get him hunting for a pull along trailer like these- they can be adapted for newborns and it will pay dividends over the next 5 years, trust me...

Not a good idea at all.

Bloody dangerous to say the very least.

However I do remember seeing a photo in a newspaper of Brad Pitt (when he had just adopted all of Angelina's liitle ones) carrying one of them in a rucksack type carrier on his back while riding a bike

He was being hailed a modern day saint of parenthood at the time.

I just went

It was quite common practice in the Netherlands when I lived there, okay it was 15 years ago but I have to say at least you had cycle paths there!

YANBU......saw a man doing this with a tiny baby in the middle of Edinburgh and tbh was horrified, no helmets on either father or baby, and loads of traffic!

Good. Hurrah. I am right - again!

Will show this to DH. Though I suspect he may simply expand his "overprotective mother" label to the rest of you. Just as well someone is I say.

was going to suggest the trailer...but has already been done....tbh, I don't rate BabyBjorn slings much at all in any case...very bad fr Babies hips....proper slings much better

YANBU

I once saw awoman riding the wrong way down a one way street with her 2-3yo balancing on the handlebars....!

My DH wanted to do this. Needless to say I vetoed it. He is from Morocco where we are atm, and yesterday I saw a couple on a moped with two small children get knocked over. Thank God nobody was hurt but for crying out fucking loud. Why why why would you take your baby on something that is likely to get knocked over by a car?

Don't worry DH won't do it without my say so. I pull the "I made him and gave birth" card if there is any disagreement over a safety issue.