Baby Carriers / Slings

[Flashman]

Hi - Just wondering where other chaps stand on the issue of the babycarriers (slings and things like that) We are due our first in 55 days (not that I am counting!!), and I was chatting to some mates on the subject of slings and carriers and the general view is that men that do wear them look "Pussy whipped" is how it was explained. For my sins I tend to see that point of view more so than any others. I mentioned it today at work and most of the females tend to think grow up - but the men tended to agree, but none of them have children either.

do any of you men on here look anything like this when carrying the physical embodiment of your awesome masculinity?

if so, please post vids on youtube and link here.

ladies, check out a few more of his vids if you want more sling wearing tips.

Easy as that eh?!

That looked like one of those elaborate ribbon waving dance routines from an Olympic opening ceremony, being performed by Enrique Iglesias.

sour grapes.

he is one hot daddy.

I've revised my earlier opinion. Slings are for wusses.

Oh he looks sooooooooo smug. Maybe I'm slightly odd, but I was willing him to get a piglet out of the cot for his demonstration moment.

sour grapes make vinegar.

Kiskidee, I'm so hot I make him look like Paul Potts. I'd post a link but you wouldn't be able to handle the excitement.

for dadada

try me, dadada. i neeeed some excitement.

Ok I am going to get slaughtered but...I did not suggest DP wore baby in our sling and he did not offer, though did once (at night!) to get baby to sleep. He is a big muscly man and wears big leather jackets with zips and stuff - I am small and soft wear soft stuff. Baby much more comfortable snuggled up on my chest. Lots of men wearing slings round here though, if absolutely honest, I think under the thumb. Sorry, I know it's probly not true. And backpack sling I think DP will have a go.

Flashman,

Despite the nickname I'm a bloke logging in under the family login.

I've just traded up from a babybjorn to a backpack and to be honest they're both pretty good.

LO is now a couple of stone so (at 5'8") is banging his head against my chin when I wear a coat so it was time to trade up.

Carrying him around in the babybjorn makes things so much easier. Hands free for shopping and pints (yes difficult to sit down but propping up the bar is fine)- you do get loads of appreciative looks from everyone - so there's no worries about feeling emasculated in any way. Ease of movement is significantly enhanced by the carrier and going up the steps into the Red Lion looks bloody silly backing up a chair - when walking straight up is a doddle.

When you're at the shops with The Brain (which will happen) getting round the shops with a chair as a right royal pain in the arse - isles are too narrow and there are too many people to crash into - i hated chairs before mine came for that reason alone. Carrying Pinky means you've got two hands for your packhorse duties, or reading the paper (if you can get it out of Pinky's hands) and you won't knock anyone's ankles.

I've just started using the backpack and the advantages are that you can see your feet (good for walks in the country) but it's a bit more difficult to see The Boy's hands and I've got a rattle shaped dent in my head to prove it - and a pain in going through doors. Although still easy to get into the Red Lion.

Personally I'm delighted to have carried him rather than pushed him as I do feel a berk pushing the chair (even if it is cool with a zero turning circle and off road wheels).

Nobody looks at the colour - they just look at the baby.

That's me that's 5'8" not the baby - my back wouldn't stand for that!

Kiskidee: So. It's warm enough for a t-shirt but too cold to take the woolly hat off. I don't understand....

Plus: I'd love to see him do that when the bairn is 10 months and a big struggling biffer.

As for the French lass: tell her to give the kid back to it's real Mum.

if you looked at that dude's other vids, you will see him bonding with his toddler: same child.

hey, he is norweigian, he can wear whatever he likes and still be sexy.

Hi Flashman
I hope you stick around on this thread and give us the countdown to the birth, me thinks this is going to be funny (in a nice way). There are a few dads about but in the main we generally pick and choose our moments, there are somw threads you are advised to keep well away from!
FWIW, I did wear a baby Bjorn for a while, it is much easier to carry a baby that way than pushing a pram all over the shop banging into things etc.
PS, women love Dads with a baby so if you want the attention wear a sling and you will get loads of smile etc and will be a magnet for the ladies. Your mates will be dead jealous believe me.

Kiski, Frenchie lady est pas mal, but she looks like she could use a few hot dinners.

And I still think the whole thing looks like a right old faff on.

Do you remember that thread linking to a website where the woman was breastfeeding a stuffed Tiger? Was genius.

hey, don't diss skinny women. I eat far more than my shape would suggest.

I was back to (under )50 kilos 2 wks after giving birth but eating 6 meals a day with the breastfeeding.

you must agree taht she is pretty. and Zebra, how many non-mums do you know can handle a newborn like that, never mind having the confidence to wrap it.

Seriously though, all these serene babies being squidged about while the sling wearer is tying reef knots... our DS would have been struggling and screaming like mad. Maybe slings are only for 'good' babies.

no, a good sling makes a 'good' baby.

You haven't met my DS...

and you haven't met my dd.

Anyway Kiskidee, old low-slung-jeans-groovy-Dad Torstein probably hasn't posted the first 13 takes of his sling demonstration, where he forgot to support the babies head, dropped her on the floor and got called an idiot by his partner.

Just messing by the way; I think slings are a great idea but never really suited us for some reason.

i know you're just messing. i like a banter too.

tbh, thorstein is too young for me.