Hi everybody, I’m Melissa. Welcome back to Cloudmom. In this video, I’m going to
show you how you can put on your Boba Stretchy Wrap in a way that you can carry your newborn
with her legs in. Okay? I have another video where I go through how to put the legs out.
So the first thing I’m going to do, and look at this wrap, one big long piece of fabric.
The first thing I’m going to do is locate the middle point, which will usually be the
label. And I’m going to gather this up a little bit, and I’m going to place it around
my middle nice and tight. Then I’m going to string the wrap around, and I’m going
to move it over my shoulder while holding it with this hand so that I keep it nice and
tight. I find the outside part of the fabric, and I string it around holding on to the front.
Okay? And then I do the same thing with this other piece of fabric. And what you want to
do is you want to try to get the the right side of the fabric so that you don’t get
yourself all twisted up. So here I go. Here’s this part. I’m going to pull down my shirt
there guys. All right, so there I go. It’s pretty easy to start out with. And one of
the things that’s really great about this carrier is that it’s very versatile, and
it is very stretchy so you get a lot of, you know, flexibility with that. So now that I’ve
done this I’m going to put these two pieces through this middle cummerbund area like this,
moving it down like this. Just pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, very, very long. Now if
you feel that you’re here and you don’t think this is tight enough, what you can do
is you can pull down on the longer pieces, and then you just sort of shimmy like this
with your shoulders. And tighten up a little bit, because you do want to have a nice, tight
fit. Okay. At this point I separate my two pieces. I cross them like this. I turn around.
I go to the back. I cross again, and here I can make a knot or I can go back again and
I can do another knot in the front. Okay. So now I’m going to get my newborn baby.
Now newborns have their legs in, and what you want to do is make sure you position
your newborn properly with his bum underneath his knees, so that as he sits in the carrier
he’s sitting in the right position for him, ergonomically. So I’m going to get my little
newborn. Here he is. It’s either a he or a she, and it’s a very easy baby by the
way. So when I put in my newborn, I really want to concentrate on how his bum position
is before the baby is placed in the carrier. So I’m going to go like this. I’m going
to make sure the feet are nicely tucked. I’m going to be concentrating on making sure I’m
giving him neck support. And I’m going to make sure the bum, again, is underneath. So
what I do when I keep the legs in, is that I just wrap this part of the carrier around
the baby like that, with the legs in. Make sure the arms are tucked in the front. And
then I wrap the other side around the baby like that, again with the legs in. Make sure
the baby has nice access to air and good breathing room. And then the cummerbund comes up like
that. It’s one nice little bundle, so easy. I mean, it looks complicated, but it’s just
so easy and so light and so comfortable. I don’t feel like I’m carrying anything.
It’s really, really easy. Now one other really important thing with newborns: you
want to make sure they’re always getting that good neck support. So find a washcloth
or a small piece of fabric. I’m even going to use this little t-shirt. I’m just going
to roll it up. I’m going to wrap it in there so he gets that neck support. And that’s
how I put my newborn baby into my Boba Stretchy Wrap. If anybody else has ideas or suggestions
about the Boba Stretchy Wrap, would love to hear them. Please comment on Cloudmom.com
on this video saying, you know, what you’ve been through, what you like or questions that
you have and pose them to me and others in the Cloudmom community. And thank you so much
for watching, and see you next time on Cloudmom.