I know a lot of you use slings &c to carry babies.

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Last time, I bought the cheapest one and it didn't work very well; he swiftly became too heavy for me to carry him in it without my shoulders/back hurting.

What's a good sling/carrier for use for newborns? I think we're too nervous to use a plain wrap. I'm not entirely sure of my knots.

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Thankyou, that would be very useful. I have a baby doll of newborn size (or at least, the same as me at 3-4 weeks),which I had already decided could be useful for practice :)

My gut reaction is that we want something that both of us can use, so that if we're out and want to swap, we can, but I'm not ruling anything out (except the cheap one I bought last time, and Baby Bjorn, which not only gets terrible reviews, but I tried to try one on when we were looking at prams, and couldn't work it out).

[rmc28]

I have just remembered a very useful group that might be able to help you: Cambridge Slingmeet. They meet monthly, for parents to help each other with slings. I only managed to make it there once, and it was really good - I learned some stuff and I managed to teach some to others. It's very friendly, and it's on this coming Saturday at the Meadows Centre from 10:30-12:30.

There is a slingmeet website: http://www.slingmeet.co.uk/
And a yahoo groups mailing list for the Cambridge people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cambridgeslingers/

The slings I have are only the ones that worked for me and for Tony (I recently cleared out all the stuff I'd bought and didn't work for us), but I know people through slingmeet who use lots of other things too, e.g. wraps and ring slings and pouches and so on.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Aha! It might be cunning to go to that just before the NCT sale, in case there's something to buy there. I'm sort of in panic 'everything has to be ready NOW' mode, but of course it really doesn't.