Dot has been walking a lot lately, I rarely bother stuffing her into the pram anymore, something she had started to vigorously resist anyhow. If she gets tired, Papacrow will put her on his shoulders, or I'll carry her. We've experimented with an Ergo a very kind friend lent us, but I found that it puts a lot (or what feels like a lot) of the weight to my pelvis, where I just can't carry it anymore, it causes it (my pelvis that is) to drift out of alignment. Although it makes my arms ache a little after a bit, it's actually much more comfortable to just carry her - tummy to tummy with her legs round her waist, if you can visualise that.
She can certainly walk pretty respectable distances - to karate, round town, to the big park, to the library - and yes, and back again...Shades of Joyce Grenfell... 'A cruise, for two, to Madeira... There and back.'
She is loving books at the moment - a bit too much, the odd rip is still happening :( can you believe that before her, we've never ripped a library book? Ah well, there's a first (and second and third and forth..) time for everything :( Luckily they're very understanding at our library, and budget for such things!
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I found, both with babies I nannied, and with each of my own, that if I didn't take care to begin them as little babies in a certain type of carrier -- sling, pouch, backpack, any kind really -- that I could successfully acclimate to it once they were toddlers. Which, when I nannied, for instance, and didn't come into the picture until baby was a toddler, was a problem, because I always so much preferred carrying to pushing strollers (prams). With Eli I unfortunately didn't begin the backpack early enough and definitely regretted it! I carried him piggyback for years since we walked absolutely everywhere and even though he was strong and sturdy and liked walking, still he'd get tired even at five.
Could **not** successfully acclimate, that should say!
I used a ring sling with Roo through to Petal, then was finding it was making my back hurt, so switched to a wrap with Dot which was fab. However, I just find they get to the point where they are just too heavy for me after about 20mins :(
I don't have a lot of pain or anything like that, but after 6 pregnancies my pelvis has a tendancy to drift out of alignment/apart/whatever a little, and many carrieres carry a lot of the wieght in the waist so as to take if off the shoulders and back a bit, which I find no good!
I got a rear facing push chair again with Dot which as been awesome, but she's now decided she hates it! Bizarly, she ADORES the cheap & cheerful front facing fold up push chair I keep in the car for emergancies *rolls eyes*
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