Ergo Baby Carrier – not only hands free but pain free baby carrying!

One of our out and out absolute favourite products is the Ergo Baby carrier. I bought this when my first child was 4 months old – mainly so I could walk the dog on beach! But seeing as she was a total koala and insisted on being on my hip all the time the Ergo carrier really came into its own round the house. I’d use the carrier in the hip position at home – my little girl loved being on my hip while I was in the kitchen preparing meals.  She mostly loved the front position while we were out and about and I really enjoyed the close contact with her. 

When Euan was born I used the infant insert and loved the fact that I could be out and about and still able to discreetly breastfeed Euan when he was little. As soon as Euan could walk I didn’t carry him much as he wanted to walk everywhere but the Ergo carrier was without a doubt one of the most essential items we took on our trip round Australia. We did lots walking – around the base of Uluru, through Kings Canyon, Katherine Gorge, through gorges in the Kimberleys, along the amazing beaches of Western Australia – too many places to mention. Without it we would have missed out on so much. My husband always wore the carrier – on Euan insisting! He found it really comfortable and could walk for hours (or as long as Euan could bear to be contained). We found the Ergo carrier so much easier to use than those backpack type carriers with a frame, you can just fold up the Ergo carrier and shove it your bag or have it in the back of the car.

Throughout June (or until stocks last) we have a sale on Ergo baby carriers find out more here, we do have limited colours but just get in touch and we can sort out other colours and styles (not at sale prices). 

What do I love the most about the Ergo baby carrier?

•   It’s totally hands free – no need to support baby like you do in many slings
•   It has 3 positions – the front, back and hip positions make it so versatile
•   Makes baby (and toddler) carrying easy – with the weight carried on your hips you don’t have to break your back!

We couldn’t have lived without Swim Nappies – love Mother-ease

Euan giving his Mother-ease swim nappy at work out at the beach!

Well the title of this blog says it all! On our trip we encountered some pretty hot weather – we were only 10 days into the trip when we got 48 degrees! Fortunately that was pretty much the hottest but as the further up North we went the more humid it was.

The only way to survive the heat was to get in the pool! So we made sure that every caravan park had a pool and we were in the water (either pool or sea) at least once if not twice a day. So I totally fell in love with the Mother-ease swim nappies we took with us.

Thinking of it Euan really only dirtied his swim nappy about 5 times for the whole duration of the trip (being 18 –24months on the trip he’s less likely to dirty a nappy in the water). Could you imagine if we’d used disposable swim nappies, one a day for 6 months is about 180 nappies that would have just been thrown away with only 5 having been ‘dirty’. What a total waste of money not to mention another bag of nappies in landfill.

Considering the amount of wear they got not just in the water but in the sun and being scraped across rocks, in the sand etc the Mother-ease swim nappies have performed brilliantly. We never had any leakage, they were easy to clean (although my husband was a bit squeamish about cleaning the dirty swim nappies - what is it about men and poo?!) it’s no big deal especially if you’re used to using cloth nappies.

I can say that these swim nappies were thoroughly tested by Euan and they came out with top marks from us (we like to personally try all our products). The bonus of course being we’ve got nappies for his swimming lessons as well – so they really are value for money Actually you only need to have 2 (maybe more with a younger child as they might be more likely to dirty their nappy). So we just had one swim nappy as a spare – took a plastic bag with us to the beach to put the dirty nappy in for cleaning when we got back to the caravan park – too easy.

Take a look at the Mother-ease swim nappies here, we’ve currently got Jade and Brazilian gender neutral colours in stock but we can order in other colours (red, blue or lilac) for you so just contact us ( info@downtoearthbaby.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )  Once you try them you’ll be hooked!

Have a happy ‘green’ day

Victoria Crombie

www.DownToEarthBaby.com