Carrying your baby in a sling offers many physical and emotional benefits for both parent and child.
After nine months of constant movement, sound and warmth inside its mother a newborn baby naturally loves to be carried around. As well as helping to maintain a constant body temperature a baby in a sling can hear its parents heart beat and voice, smell their scent and most importantly feel emotionally secure. For fathers it can be a special time of bonding and getting to know their child; a babe in arms is at just the right height to get plenty of kisses and loving words. During those times when a fractious baby wants to be rocked constantly, putting the baby in the sling means you can get on with the house work!
After 3 or 4 months your baby will want to see the world and will love sitting in its sling observing everything you do. As you go about your daily chores people inevitably smile at your baby because they are at their eye level, unlike a baby in a pram. A baby in a sling is above the level of car exhaust emissions which tend to hang around at the same height as most prams. It is also far easier negotiating public transport, doors and stairs with a sling than it is with a large pram.
Using a purpose made sling is the best way to carry your baby for a long time. They take the strain out of carrying your child. Not all slings are suitable from birth; some do not have adequate support for a newborn baby's soft bones. If you want to carry a newborn baby in a hands free sling make sure it holds them in the frog position by supporting their thighs, hip and pelvis, it should also give support to the babies head and neck.
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