Sling backpack – For older babies

Sling backpack – from what age to use? How to wear? What criteria for choosing good sling backpacks? Compare sling backpack and kangaroo. Sling backpack with your own hands

Sling backpack is a convenient carrying for small babies, equipped with wide straps, stable belt and upholstery of different straps. His ergonomic design attracts moms, so we will consider in more detail the features of this model of carrying and determine who it is suitable, and who is not, and from what age you can get a little kid at it. 

From what age is it recommended sling backpack?

It can be used from four months when the child can already raise and keep his head and up to three years. Sling backpack is better not to apply for wearing newborns.

Manufacturers, using the lack of due control of state structures behind the market of such children’s products, argue that in their backpacks you can use for quite another crumbs that were only born.

However, this is not the case. The backpack of any brand can be used no earlier than the child will be 4 months old, and it is better to wait at all until the six-month achievement when the crumb is trying to sit down.

Below are the arguments against the use of sling of this model for newborns: 

• The shape of the sling backpack is large for the body just born crumbs. Locks, as well as mattresses and panties, which manufacturers are trying to compensate for this fact, harm the proper formation of the bone and muscle corset of the child. Restrictions on wearing a baby in a backpack are children’s age up to 4-6 months, weight up to 7.5 kg, an increase of up to 68 cm; 
• Due to the strong sweeping of the sleeve, the baby in the backpack is too early formed by a lower deflection; 
• Tight pressed adult forms foot hyperware, t. E. little practically sits on the twine; 
• The carrier belt has a strong pressure on the mother’s pelvis, which has not yet been completely reduced and the uterus has restored. This factor can provoke discomfort at the bottom of the abdomen and the appearance of hemorrhoids.

Therefore, it is better to choose for wearing newborns Other types of slings – scarves, May-slings or carrying on rings, and backpacks will save for more adult children. 

How to wear a sling backpack? 

Start standing from the position «Belly to the stomach». Then the baby, at any moment seeing my mother in front of him, is not afraid of no street noise, nor the world. Only when you arrange a child in such a position, do not forget to use the collar, to maintain the head. 

Replanting a child with a back to yourself, when the crumb will be six months. By this time, he becomes not so grated, and besides, he will be pleasant and interesting to look at the world around. And behind the back and on the thigh you should wear a baby when it becomes a little older. 

Seating a child in an ergonomic children’s sling backpack, make sure that these criteria are observed: 

• Little must hang a little over the belt; 
• Knees still not walking independent kid should be raised over boo; 
• The backpack’s back should be smooth and well stretched, and the seat without «bubbles» and failures; 
• Stamps should or pass in parallel along the shoulders of an adult and maintain a slurrow or crossed out behind it; 
• Toddler’s back in the area of ​​the waist must be a bit rounded. 

How to choose a convenient sling backpack? 

By choosing carrying, take into account the following parameters: 

• Age, as well as weight and toddler growth; 
• The possibility of uniform support of the child’s spine. 

It should also be noted that compared to other slings, the backpack has a greater weight, which means that the load on the spine and the muscular corset of the adult increases. Another criterion is seasonality. In the summer, in a dense backpack, the baby will be hotter, but for a colder seasons, such carrying will be the best option. 

A good model of a backpack has the following criteria: 

• He has a hard belt to support the adult lunch and wide straps that do not crash from the shoulders. These parameters guarantee a uniform load distribution on an adult;
• Backpack backpack for a child should be wide and have a soft texture, which ensures proper physiological development; 
• Availability of hood. It is needed to fix the head of the little while sleeping if he tried on a walk, and also serves as protection against adverse weather conditions. 

What is better – backpack or sling? 

Many ergonomic sling resembles another type of carrier – Kangaroo. But in fact, there are fundamental differences between these two species.

Regarding Kangaroo, some doctors allegedly argue that its use, if he is not adjusted, harms the physical health of the child and leads to discomfort for adult. You can avoid this, you only need to correctly adjust the straps and make sure that the baby is tightly pressed to the adult body. 

The design of the same sling backpack allows you to place inside the situation in the right one in the right position, even if it is loosen in it. With the help of inelastic fabric, which tightly fits the body of the child, sling evenly distributes the load on the muscles and the rapid corset of the baby, including the spine. 

But there is between the sling backpack and the kenguruschka what their relatives. Both carrier models allow you to leave the free hands of an adult when walking with the baby, as well as small, being inside, is constantly in tactile contact with mom, which is important for its development. 

Sling-backpack: We sew your own hands 

Sewing this model of sling is more difficult than May-sling, or options with rings. In order to sew a backpack with your own hands, in addition to the main fabric you will need fathes – semi-automatic fasteners, which allow you to connect fabric elements.

Still foam – for stuffing back and headrest. Isolon or segment of a tourist rug, which is inserted into the belt in order to give it additional rigidity. Also need slings so that it is easy to adjust the length of the straps and press the crook to the adult body.

Below is the amount of material based on the kid to one and a half years: 

• The main fabric is a cloak, dense x / b fabric, jeans, cutting length 2 meters; 
• Cotton fabric on lining – 1 meter; 
• 4-4.5 cm wide strip – 4-5 meters; 
• Fastex – 3 pieces, up to 4.5 cm wide; 
• Centimeter isolon, with an area of ​​70 cm by 22 cm; 
• Porolon – 2 segments, 7.5 cm with 50 cm. 

Sling backpack consists of three parts – belts, backs and straps:

• Initially, straps are cut up. They are stitched by offline, then stuffed with foam rubber and slings are inserted into them; 
• Belt sews from the main fabric and isolon. Also inside the textures and slings are inserted; 
• The back is not entirely over, but cut out of three parts. If the backpack is sewn for winter, then it is additionally styling with syntheps. Also in the backs are sewn the retaliatory fatsections, so the allowance of the seam must be made more;
• When the back is ready for it to challenge the straps, and trying to carry on yourself. If everything suits, then the straps are involved in the typewriter, and the latter is sewn. 

In conclusion, I would like to say that there are no bad and good sling-robbers. If there are some problems, it means that you or use the sling is not by age or incorrectly sit down in it. However, if you use the criteria for the right landing, you will successfully cope with this task!