Fun stretchy wraps - ideas?

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I've got a Moby but it's a bit boring and tatty, and dirty (I use it nearly all day every day with my 4 month old)!

I want to buy another, one that looks nice but is basically the same as a Moby, but with nice fabric if you see what I mean. Any ideas?

I'll have a look in a sec, but just for info - at around 4 and a half/5 months I stopped being able to wear the stretchy wrap because she was too heavy and bounced around a lot in it. I went on to a mai tai, which you can get in gazillions of ace colours (some companies will make one out of fabric you send them).

I think Boba do a couple of patterned wraps off the top of my head, if that's any good to you.

Have a look for Victoria Sling Lady (VSL)

Oh yeah ohthegoats - I think I mean woven wrap. Oops! Do you have any ideas about those? Like a proper hippy wrap.

Wovens come in all sorts! I adore my fidella (rock n rolla) but they're quite wide so better for toddlers. Natibaby do some incredible ones - I yearn for their Wrap Of Requirement which is the actual Harry Potter Marauder's Map but very hard to get hold of. Lenny Lamb have a few, Joy and Joe. There are other brands too but those are the ones that spring to mind for "pictures" iyswim

Ah very useful. I have a Moby at the moment. Would I be able to learn quite easily to tie a woven or would I find it hard, do you think? Don't want to be pissing about for hours with Youtube videos x

I've got a Didymoss sling to wear her on my hip now. OK, I've got about 6 slings. They do wovens and hip slings.

www.didymos.de/en/DIDYMagazine/Carrying-a-Baby-oxid/

ohthegoats I saw those - they look nice, but there's so much choice. What I couldn't work out is are they all basically the same?

Wovens are fine to tie - have you got a sling library near you? They will help you tie them, come round your house, use your own child etc. Or you can go to them, obviously.

Lush things: www.didymos.de/en/Babywearing/DIDYMOS-Baby-Wrap-Sling/

Ok, I'm going to get one.

Different lengths and 'weights' - summer linen/silk wraps, winter/silk wool wraps.

They're not all the same, but for a beginner the recomendation is a size 6 100% cotton. Size 6 is the approximate length and is the most useful length for most sized people - if you're an 8 or under you might need a 5, 18+ maybe a 7 - to do most basic carries.

Cotton is easy to use and grippy, making it the easiest to wrap with as well as affordable.

The fwcc - Front Wrap Cross Carry - is most like the one you're used to, and until you get used to a woven it's probably best to master that. You can YouTube or find a nearby sling library to visit.

Tbh until I was pregnant I only ever used fwcc on my front and a ruck for back carries. Now I do a double hammock (at 37w with a 2 3/4yo) because I need the extra support on the odd occasion he wants up these days. So in nearly 3 years of carrying that's 4 carries, if you include our initial stretchy.

The fwcc is good because you can keep it on and take baby in and out, tightening and loosening a bit as needed. I've never managed a ruck without loads of help. I only use the ring sling as a hip carry, but I'm not sure its meant to be used in any other way. It's ace - weight feels evening distributed on one shoulder and the opposite hip, so it's weight down rather than weight out in front.

I sit ds on the wrap, make sure it's loose under his knees and right up to his neck, then chuck him over my shoulder. It's a great way to terrify parents of teenies but also means he's got a good seat already.

You can use a rs for front carries for a tiny baby, or back carry on an older one but you need a long tail. I don't get on with hip carries so have never bothered with a rs though so am going off what i've seen others do