Hi, I'm Rachel and this video is going to show how to do Robin's Hip Carry as a front
carry with a newborn I love hip carries for all ages, because you can treat it like a
poppable carry where you pre-tie it and pop baby in and out.
So I'm going to show how to do the carry and then how to pop baby in and out of the carry
really easily and I'm also going to show a modification that works for doing this carry
with a newborn because my baby is only 1 month old.
So I'm going to start by getting a wrap that is my base size or less.
This one is my base size minus 3, So it's a size 3.
My base size is a size 6.
You could do this with a base size wrap.
It's harder to do this as a poppable carry with a longer wrap but it works better as
a poppable carry with a base minus 2 or base minus 3.
So I'm going to start by finding my middle marker.
I'm going to put that right behind my back and I'm going to wear it like a towel.
I'll decide which side of my body I want to hold baby on.
I'm going to hold baby on my left, so I'm going to take the left side of the wrap under
my arm, leaving the right side over.
I'll gather up the right side.
Then I'm going to bring the left side across my chest, almost like I'm going to do Poppin's
hip carry.
I'm going to bring the left side over top of my hanging tail.
Then I'm going to take this hanging tail, making sure it's not twisted and I'm going
to flip it up over my back.
The secret to this carry is pinning this hanging tail in front of you.
So I'm going to take this tail across my back, around to the front, and then I'm going to
pin it in between my knees.
Keeping that really snugly pinned makes it very easy to put any in because you have a
nice snug carry.
This whole anchor point isn't going to move because this tail is pinned.
So at this point, I'm going to pick up baby.
I'll hold him up on my shoulder like I'm going to burp him, guide his legs through, and then
I'm going to seat him on the fabric.
I'm bringing slack from the back as I do this.
Then I bring him forward and just let him settle into position on the front of my body.
Then I'll take the top edge and bring it up and over his back.
The bottom edge, I'm going to bring my hand to the back knee, coming under this front
leg, pull slack forward, pushing that knee up, and slide my hand in a straight line over
to the other leg.
As I do that I find a little pocket of slack.
I'm going to begin by taking out that slack.
That's the purple edge.
I'm going to pull that.
Then I'll work on tightening through here, pulling each strand.
A lot of times slack gets caught right under your arm here, so I'm going to take a moment
to bring that slack forward.
Then I'll pull the corresponding part across.
Alright, now you can tie this off.
I took this tail out from between my knees and brought it OVER this leg and now I'm going
to tie this off right under his bottom, a nice double knot.
I take the first half knot between us a bit and pull one more time.
Then I'll make the double knot right under his bottom.
Alright so that's pretty quick.
I'll check and make sure my shoulder is comfortable, spread out both edges, both sides of the shoulder.
Now I'll show you how to treat this as a poppable carry.
I love this carry on rainy, yucky days.
I'll tie before I leave the house and then when I get to the car, I lean forward a bit,
supporting baby and shift him up.
I can take this down and then lift baby up and out.
And then I'll put baby in the carseat.
I'll leave the wrap on while I'm driving.
When I get where I'm going, I put baby on my shoulder again, bring his legs through
everything (the fabric and the knot).
I'll bring this up over his back, take the bottom edge from knee to knee and then let
him sit back down on top of the knot.
Sometimes I'll have a tiny bit of adjustment to do.
I have a little bit of top edge slack and I can pull it and then I just sometimes twist
it right here if I don't feel like retying the knot.
And that works out really great.
You can pop them in and out as many times as you need and it's a pretty awesome carry!
Thanks!