Hi everybody, I’m Melissa. Welcome to Cloudmom. In this video, I’m going to be walking through
how you can carry your baby or your toddler in the Boba soft-structured carrier. This
is not something you’re going to want to do with a newborn. Rather, you want to make
sure your baby has developed sufficient neck and upper back control. Okay? Personally,
it’s something I would wait to do towards the end of my baby’s first year. Okay. So
when I get ready to put the Boba on, and I want the tag to be in, the first thing I’m
going to do is attach it to the hip area. Not along the waist, it should be on the upper
hip area, a little lower or higher depending on your height. I’ve got that dual adjustability,
which is going to allow me to make sure it’s sitting nice and tight. Do all of this before
you even go near your baby. Now I’m going to go get my baby. Okay? You’re going to really
enjoy meeting him. He’s a real character. This is Thiago, okay? His mantra is "Peace,
love and rock and roll," and he loves being carried on the back. When I get ready to put
my baby on my back, I want to spread him out here in the middle to make sure he’s already
in that nice, squatted position, with his bum slightly below his knees. That is the
safe position for a baby. Okay? And the way I do this, again, it’s one of these things
that looks really hard at first, but you will learn how to do it. The way I do this is,
I support him, make sure you’re supporting the neck area as well if he's quite young.
And I’m going to take this hand, and I’m going to support his bum using this hand.
And I’m going to start to shimmy him over to my back like this. Okay? Turning myself
into like a table. You see that? Now at this point, what a lot of people say to do, and
you’re not going to be in this position for a long time. I’m just going to stand
up to explain this to you guys, and then I’m going to go back. What a lot of people say
to do once you’re in the table position is to reach for the straps. I actually have
a very, very hard time doing that, because I often reach for the wrong straps and I end
up in like a game of twister. So what I like to do is to instead lean down while holding
my baby and smooth the carrier up, which means that I, it makes it easier for me to find
the strap. Okay? So here I go again. My baby is in the soft, squatted position, with his
bum slightly below the knees. I’m shimmying him over like this to my back area. I’m
turning myself into a table. I’m going to take my carrier, and I’m going to string
it over the baby. You see? There I go. And there are my straps, and I’m going to find
them quite easily. I’m going to move around so you guys can see me on the other side.
Okay? Don’t worry about tightening the straps or anything like that until you stand up again.
There I go. Now, get the hair out of the way. I’m going to hold tightly onto these straps,
and as I stand up I’m going to raise my arms upwards like that, upwards. These are
nice and tight now. And now is when I’m going to attach the front. And then I’m
going to, you guys can see I was really in good shape here. I’m going to attach the
front like this. Duck. Adjust it on both sides. And now I’m going to tighten my straps.
I can tighten them from either of both ways, both times by pulling down. This is the beauty
of the Boba. It’s that dual adjustability. My baby’s legs are nicely out. And he’s
happy. And he’s comfortable. Okay. I’m going to take this baby down, and I’m going
to try to see how it works with my own little Marielle, who has been enjoying the Boba,
but we’ll see if she’s in a good mood today. We’ll see if we can make it work.
Okay? So this is how you’re going to take your baby down from the Boba. And the thing
you want to do is basically just take off the top part. And then you’re going to take
your baby down, and then you worry about your whole middle. Don’t take your whole baby
carrier off while holding your baby. It’s not safe. So the first thing I’m going to
do is I’m going to detach this front piece here. I’m going to move back to my table-like
position. Okay? I’m going to take this armrest off. Now I’m supporting my baby with this
hand. I’m taking the other armrest off. I’m just sort of letting this fall. I’m
shimmying my baby back to my hip area. And now I’m going to put my baby down safely,
and then I’m going to take off my waist part. Okay? So let me say goodbye to little
Thiago. It’s been fun. And I’m going to go get Marielle. So I’ll be right back.
Hi! So here I am with Cloudmom baby, Marielle. As you can tell, she’s not such a little
bitty baby anymore. She’s two and a half. And Marielle made her debut in the "How to
Change a Diaper" video, so we’re very happy to have her back on camera here at Cloudmom.
Now, with Marielle I find that it’s easier to actually put her in the carrier when I’m
on the ground, because she can just climb up and put her hands on my shoulders and I
attach the straps. So that’s what I’m going to do. Whereas with the younger baby,
I would do the whole thing I just went through of, you know, positioning them on the hip and shimmying
them back to the back. Okay? So here we go. I’m going to crouch down now, and I’m
going to show you how I’m going to get Marielle into this Boba carrier. And she really, really
loves it. So here, Marielle, you’re going to come right here and put your hands here.
Good girl. Good girl. And then, I’m going to kind of put her knees like this. And I’m
going to reach back and put on my shoulder straps. And that’s basically it. And then
all I have to do is attach the front. Now what I do is, I hold on with the shoulder
straps. And as I stand up, I sort of hoist them up like this. And then I just have to
attach this front piece. It’s really, really easy. Like that! And I tighten there. And
she really, really likes it. And you’ve got this dual adjustability here, so it’s
very, very easy to tighten. So that she’s nice and tight. So that’s how you can put your
toddler into the Boba soft-structured carrier. Happy baby wearing, and thanks so much for
watching Cloudmom.