Hi everybody, I’m Melissa. Welcome to Cloudmom, talking carriers today. I have with me the
Boba Stretchy Wrap. This is an amazing carrier, very flexible, very versatile for a young
baby. And it’s very reasonably priced at around 38 dollars. So I’m going to walk
you guys through how to use this. And if you look at it, it’s really just one enormous
piece of fabric. And what’s really nice about this carrier is the stretch factor.
That gives it a lot of versatility. So the first thing I’m going to do is take the
middle part of my carrier and I’m going to bunch it up a little bit like this, and
I’m going to place it around my middle. Okay? Then I’m going to start to gather
it around me. And I’m going to turn to my back so you guys can see what I’m doing.
I’m going to hold the outside of the fabric like this. I’m going to hold this part in
place with this hand, and I’m going to string this around my shoulder, my first shoulder.
This is how I’m going to get that nice cross mark. Okay? So I string that part around like
that. I’m still holding it in the front. And now I go with my other hand. And I go
around like this. I’m doing this from the back so you guys can see. And I string that
around my other shoulder. And now I can sort of even it out a little bit. This is very,
very comfortable. Okay? So now the, what I’m going to do is I’m going to string these
two pieces. And it stays in place nicely too. I’m going to even these around, even these
out around my shoulders. And I’m going to string these through this cummerbund area.
And all of this you’re doing guys before your baby is, you know, on site. Okay? Because
you can’t really do this while holding a baby. So I string these two pieces down and
through. It’s amazing how long this is, but you will make use of it. And I stretch
this down. So what you can do, you really want this to remain very, very tight. So when
you want to keep tightening it, you can just sort of pull down here like this and then
scrunch your shoulders forward a little bit and pull out the cummerbund. Okay? And to
the contrary if you feel like you want to stretch it out a little bit, you can do this,
it’s, I call it the praying thing when you go like this and that gives you a little more
stretch. But I’m going to keep it on the tighter side right now. Now I’m going to
cross this part of the fabric. I’m going to cross it again in the back. And I’m either
going to tie here, or if I still have fabric, I’m coming back to the front. And I’m
going to cross again and create a nice knot. And now I’m getting ready for my baby. Now
when you have your baby in the Boba Stretchy Wrap, even for a very young baby, you actually
can have your legs out. And the way you’re going to do that is you’re going to take
your baby, you’re going to put him in one side of this cross and you’re going to stretch
this fabric out around his knees to support him. And then you’re going to put him under
this part and stretch that out as well. And the cummerbund is going to come on top of
him. So I’m going to walk you guys through how to do that. So here’s my little sunshine
baby. We’re going to be very good friends. He really doesn’t give me a lot of trouble.
I don’t know why people say babies are so hard. So anyway, holding my baby, and again
with your newborn you’re going to be giving him a lot of upper back and neck support.
I’m going to stretch this part of the carrier over him. And I’m going to make sure that
his knee is getting support. The way people talk about this is knee to knee. And you really
want to make sure the bum is underneath the knee. So this gets stretched over my baby
like this. Okay? And now I’m going to do this on the other side, making sure that he’s
getting enough support. I’m going to move his arms to the front, so this stretches over
here like that. Very, very easy to work with, and now I’m going to check and make sure
I like the position. This is very important ergonomically. You want the baby in that nice,
stretched, crouched position, with the knees like this and the bum underneath. Okay? Now
my baby’s well situated. I’m going to pull up the cummerbund like this. Make sure
he’s nicely nestled in there. And what a good thing to do is with a newborn is to give
your baby a little bit of additional neck support. You can use a washcloth, something
like that. I have a t-shirt here I’m going to use. So you can just roll that up like
this and place it here inside the carrier, just to give your baby that little bit of
additional neck support. So that is the Boba Stretchy Wrap, very versatile, very inexpensive.
If you guys have other things about this wrap that you like, or ways in which you use it,
please comment on my video on Cloudmom.com. I would love to hear from you. Thank you so
much for watching, and see you next time.