Hi everybody, I’m Melissa. Welcome to Cloudmom. In this video I’m going to walk you guys
through how to carry your baby in the Ergo Carrier. This is a buckle carrier. It has
very nice padded shoulder straps. It has a terrific hood, which is great for a sunny
day, also comes in very handy when you’re carrying your baby on your back. And I go
into some more of the features of this carrier in another video I have on having the baby
facing forwards with the legs out. So check that out too. So here we go. Your tag is going
to go on the inside. And when you’re carrying your baby on your back, the carrier is going
to go on your back. So that’s the first thing I’m going to do. And I’m going to
put this on my hip area, and it’s going to be nice and tight. So Ergo’s got this
cool safety strap. What you do is you put your buckle through the safety strap like
that, and you just sort of put it over like that, and you tighten like this, nice and
tight. I mean this is tight. Okay. Now I’m going to get all of this figured out before
I pick up my baby. Now I’m going to get my baby. And here he is. I like to give this
baby different names. And you’re going to be called Anton. Okay. Anton, here’s my
baby, I’m supporting his neck, and I’m going to put him on my hip. And then what
I’m going to do is I’m going to shimmy him around to the back area. And I’m going
to basically smooth the carrier over me. So here I am. I have him on my hip. And what
you can do is you can take your front hand to support your baby, and you can take your
back hand and put it like this so you’ve got kind of some support of the head and of
the behind. And I shimmy the baby around like this. Here I am. And I’m making my body
into a table. When I’m in this position, what I like to do, I like to smooth the carrier
over the baby. Some people say to grab for the straps, but sometimes when I do that I
get confused between the straps, and I end up in like a game of Twister. So I’m sort
of smoothing the carrier. See, I’m still holding my baby. And as I smooth the carrier
over, I’ve still got that hand on the baby so he’s nice and safe. And there’s my
strap. So I grab onto this strap with my left arm. I’m going to turn around. And I’m
going to grab on to the other strap with my right arm. And there I go. Now here’s a
nice little trick: as you stand up, reach your hands up a little bit towards the ceiling.
And this will sort of usher your baby just a little bit up into a nice, high position.
So here I go, like that. My next step is going to be to attach this sternum buckle, which
I’m going to tighten like this. I’m going to pull up even more on my straps a little
bit. And then I’m going to tighten on the sides. And this is a very, very easy thing
to do. All I have to do is pull like this, backwards. I can pull and adjust both sides.
I’m going to show you guys on the other side. I just pull, pull, pull to make sure
those straps are nice and tight. Sometimes this little safety thing can get in the way.
So if you feel like that’s obstructing it, make sure it’s over the buckle, and then
just give it a nice tug and pull. So there’s my baby in the back carry position with the
Ergo. I barely feel any weight. The weight is very well distributed between the hip area
and here. It’s a very, very nice carrier that people really, really like. Another nifty
thing about the Ergo is the hood. This is a great thing to use in the front if you have
a baby you’re nursing for privacy, or in the back if it’s a sunny day or you’re
carrying your baby in the back and you want a little extra neck support. You just reach
back, and you find your hood here. You bring it forward, and then you find here where it
snaps. And you’ve got a couple different lengths that you can snap to, depending on
the size of your baby. So there I go. I’m going to snap that side. I’m moving it around
here. I find my snap with my finger, and I snap that side right there. Duck. So this
is the Ergo. If any of you guys have things you want to say about the Ergo, stories you
want to tell about what you did with your baby when you were in the Ergo, or anything
else to share, please comment on my site on Cloudmom.com. I would love to hear from you.
Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you next time.