Vanamo Europaea wrap review

I got the chance to participate in a test tour for the new Vanamo Europaea wraps. They are made of 100 % natural cotton, weaved in Liethuania, designed and sewn in Finland. So far there are three different patterns in the collection, in a few different colors of each pattern.

Vanamo Lempi Ihastus

I like the way Vanamo wraps are given names that are inspired of the pattern and/or the color of the wrap. This one has a heartshaped pattern, and the wrap is soft, light pink. Lempi means favorite or love, ihastus is infatuation or like “sweet valentine”.

This wrap is so sweet, both the pattern and the color. It is very light in hand and feels airy. It has structure but is so extremily soft, that it doesn’t feel harsh at all. Before I received the wraps I had heard that it is very loosely woven, easily gets pulls, and it has seemed to be everyones favorite. (I don’t know if the last was more because of the looks (this color) or also the feeling of the wrap). So… I was so very curious of how it would be! My first impression was good, but it wasn’t my favorite of the three though. Sweet wrap, but not THAT special… (Typically me to not like what everyone else likes, just need to be different…haha). My first impression favorite was one of the other two.

Though… when we got to use the wrap over the week, I found it more and more pleasant. I like that it is thin, has perfect grip, not too much, but it holds in place. I didn’t find it pull prone at all! But I’m used to handwoven wraps that are weaved even more “loose”, so for someone who are used to “flat” machine woven wraps it may feel different.

I used the wrap with both my kids, an 8 months old ~10 kg baby and a ~15 kg 4 year old. The wrap was suitable for both, it was soft and thin (would be perfect for a newborn also!), but not diggy on my shoulders even with the bigger child. Tried it in FWCC (front wrap cross carry), kangaroo carry, DH (double hammock), rucksack carry, and a few fancy finishes.

What I like: 
  + Soft
  + Thin 
  + Beautiful and sweet
  + Suitable for all kids, from newborn to toddler
  + Cool thanks to the airy pattern and thin structure
  + Affordable 
  + Good diagonal stretch

What I like less: 
  - I can't really think of anything... pretty perfect 🙂 (...aaand now you go back in my text and wonder, didn't she wrote that it "wasn't her favorite", "not that special"...). Well, what can I say, you are allowed to change your mind, right? 😉

Vanamo Lempi Ihastus in FWCC (fron wrap cross carry) with 8 month old baby

Vanamo Polku Joki

Polku is path in English, joki means river. Describing name too, like most of the Vanamo wraps. The pattern looks like a labyrinth, or “path”, and the wrap is blue. This was my favorite right at the first impression! I like thin wraps with a lot of structure so I was sure that this would be my favorite. After the week it wasn’t my -favorite- anymore, but it is still a good wrap.

Vanamo Polku has a very special structure, it is almost like a waffle fabric. It is thin and grippy, thanks to the pattern. The width of the wrap is a little bit narrower than the other two. I tried also this wrap with both my kids and in different carries.

What I like with the wrap:
  + Thin
  + Grippy
  + Cool pattern   
  + Good diagonal stretch
  + Less wide
  + Affordable
  + Feels cool

What I like less: 
   - Felt harsh on my shoulders when carrying heavier kids (in single layer)
   - Very grippy, was a bit difficult to get the second layer tight on place. On the other hand it stayed there. 
   - Probably needs some more effort to get "broken in" (soft) than the other two, since they were all used already, but it felt a lot rougher.

Vanamo Polku Joki in FWCC with 8 month old baby

Vanamo Vuori Velho

Vuori means mountain in English. Velho is a wizard. I’ve heard that this wrap was a favorite for many. My first impression was not the -best- one. A soft wrap, yes, but it felt a bit thick, and a bit boring… But remember, this was my first impression, not my final thought! I used all the wraps everyday for a week, and the Vuori Velho wrap became a favorite. It feels a bit thick (as you know, I like thin wraps), but it is soft, and a dream in double hammock! The second layer slides easily on place, and it stays on place (it’s not slippery at all).

What I like: 
  + Soft
  + Strong
  + Perfect glide
  + Has grip
  + Cool pattern
  + Affordable
  + You can use it with both newborn babies and bigger kids

What I like less: 
  - A bit thick, feels warm

You can buy wraps from the Europaea collection at Liinalapsi – Wearababy: https://wearababy.com/category/31/vanamo-woven-wrap-100–cotton

Stretchy wraps

With my first child I never tried stretchy wraps. So when I got to try them on the babywearing peer supporter courses, I decided I need to buy some if I get another child. And yes, some, not just one, because they are so different! Some of them have one-way stretch, others have two-way stretch, some are thin, others are thick, they can be wide or narrow… And they also have different colors and patterns.

I prefer the ones with two-way stretch. The ones we have used (and still uses almost daily because he prefers stretchy wraps over woven wraps and carriers), are Love Radius basic and original, Baby on Earth, Neko stretchy, Coracor baby and Sjala elastic merino.

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With a stretchy wrap there should always be three layers of fabric over the childs back for safety reasons, and for comfort. The basic PWCC, pocket wrap cross carry, is probably the most known carry for a stretchy wrap. But there are many other carries you can do with a stretchy! I followed a stretchy wrap challenge on Instagram, just because it is fun to challenge yourself, and when you use the wrap many times a day it is fun to vary it.

Baby On Earth

This wrap is very stretchy, in both width and length. Not that thin, but it still feels cool and light, thanks to the airy, super soft fabric, and is perfect for a new born baby! Its edges rolls up a bit, which makes it feel less wide than many other stretchy wraps, which also makes it perfect for the first weeks with a new born.

Baby on Earth stretchy wraps are made in Barcelona, Spain. They are made of 94 % GOTS certified organic cotton and 6 % elastane. 5 meters long, 50 cm wide (stretches to ~70 cm). Up to 8 kg. The one I have is named Dark Crosses. #naturallytogether https://www.babyonearth.com/en/

Coracor

Just as Baby on Earth, Coracor is very stretchy, in both width and length. It is also extremily thin and soft. Has a more smooth feeling. It feels wider, but that doesn’t bother since it is so thin, it’s still very easy to wrap with and suits a new born baby well. Just as Baby on Earth, Coracor has beautiful prints.

Coracor is designed in Sweden, made in Turkey. They are made of 91 % GOTS certified organic cotton and 9 % elastane, which is why they are so superstretchy. The wrap is 4,8 m long and 50 cm wide (stretches to ~70 cm). Recommended up to 12 kg. https://www.coracor.se/en

Neko Slings

Neko stretchy is a strechy wrap with one-way stretch. It is thin and much narrower than most other stretchy wraps. Because of the one-way stretch it can be more difficult to wrap with in the beginning, before you know how to tighten it. I think it suits a newborn baby very well thanks to the thin and narrow fabric. It is easier to tighten if the cross passes goes outside the hammock pass, in a front wrap cross carry, instead of the pocket wrap cross carry.

Neko Slings is a turkish brand that makes and sells different ergonomic baby wraps and carriers. Their stretchy wraps are made of 100 % Cotton interlock, Oeko-tex certified, are 4,55 m long and ~45 cm wide (stretches to ~60 cm). When you buy their stretchy wraps you also get a cute hat for the baby in the same color as the wrap. https://shop.nekoslings.com/

Love Radius

I have three different Love Radius stretchy wraps; the basic, the original and a ringsling. They have all in common that they suits bigger children better than a newborn. They are stretchy wraps, so of course you can use them for newborns aswell, but thanks to the thicker and wider fabric, they works really well with bigger babies. They have two-way stretch.

Love Radius is a French brand. The wraps are mainly made in Turkey. https://love-radius.com/en/

The Basic wrap is 4,60 m long and 50 cm wide (stretches to ~60 cm), made in French terry; Cotton 95 % and Spandex 5 %. It is suitable for babies from 3,5 kg up to 9 kg. Weights 850 g. I used my Basic wrap with my new born, and it worked fine, but it works just as fine, maybe better, now with my 5 months old. I also tried it with my almost 4 years old, 14 kg, and surprisingly it was really comfortable (even though it goes way out of the recommended weight limit for this wrap)!

Love Radius Original is 5 m long, 70 cm wide (stretches to ~80 cm) and is, thanks to the thicker fabric, supportive up to 14 kg. It is made of Oeko-Tex 100 Certified 95 % cotton, and 5 % elastane. Weights 1 kg. This one I only used a few times in the beginning, because it felt too thick and way too wide for a newborn. Now, when my litte one is 5 months old, 9 kg and 69 cm long we use it more often.

The ringsling is made in Europe, Oeko-Tex 100 Certified 100 % viscose (Beech cellulose) jersey. It is 1,7 m long, ~62 cm wide and have gathered shoulder. You can use it up to 14 kg. The sling is reversible, with two different colors, so you can choose which colour you want to show. This was the first sling I tried with our newborn baby, but I found it difficult to get it comfortable, so I preferred the long stretchy wraps. I haven’t used it so much, but will keep it if we will like ringslings better in the future. Normal ringslings were in frequent use with my first child when she was around 2 years old, and this should be able to hold heavier children also. I like that it is short.

Sjala merino

Sjala Elastic Merino is a Oeko-Tex 100 Certified 100 % merino wool (Mulesing free and TEC -Total Easy Care) stretchy wrap with one-way stretch. It is 5,20 m long and 60 cm wide (stretches to ~80 cm). Designed in Sweden, made in Estonia. The wool makes it great in both summer and winter, it is cool when it’s hot and warm when it’s cold outside. Can easily hold up heavier kids also.

This is the stretchy wrap number 1 if you ask most of the people in atleast Swedish Facebook groups. Thanks to the wool it can hold bigger children also. I like it, but, it’s not my favorite. I’m team two-way stretch, and don’t like that it is made of merino wool. But other than that, it is a great stretchy wrap! It feels thin in hand, but somehow thick on your body, probably because of the wool, it is warm. It has more grip than Neko stretchy, Coracor and Love Radius Original.

So… as I mentioned already there are many differences between different stretchy wraps. These are just a few. I like them all, in different ways. I am team two-way stretch, they feel like a big, cozy hug! Easy to wrap with, you just put them on really tight, and then put the baby inside. You can also take the baby out, leave the wrap on, and then put the baby back. With the one-way stretchy wraps I think you need to retighten the carry. But that also depends, and it can be a good first step to learn how to tighten woven wraps in the future.

For me, just one stretchy wrap were not enough. Because I love to carry in them, and as meantioned earlier some are better for newborns, some works better when the baby is bigger. For the first weeks I recommend Baby on Earth or Coracor, because they are thin, supersoft and very stretchy. They are easy to use, once you tighten them enough from the start. You just stretch them out as much as needed to get them over the baby, and don’t need to change the baby’s position that much. Newborns likes to be near you ALL the time, so you can have the wrap on you all day and just take the baby out for diaper change and maybe for food (if you dont feed them in the wrap). Then, when baby grows and get heavier, I would use another stretchy wrap, one with more support, for example one of the ones I have written about. As you know now I’m team two-way stretch, so Love Radius would be my choice. I still use my Baby on Earth wrap, but just inside. If we go out for a walk I choose one of the Love Radius wraps, because they give better support, the Baby on Earth gets bouncy (which is great if I need to get baby to sleep, but doesn’t feel so great when walking). My baby is now 9 kg, so many would say that stretchy wraps “doesn’t give any support at all anymore”, but I’m of another opinion, you just need to tighten them better, and choose the right one. For walks outside I prefer stretchy wraps, because now in the winter when it’s cold outside I use babywearing coats, and under them many other options gets bulky and somehow I experience the pressure gets uneven. Some carriers (Wompat, Fidella fusion, Jagy, KahuBaby…) or carries (Kangaroo carry) works fine, but I still experience that stretchy wraps are even more comfortable under the coat. …and that made me think of another advantage with stretchy wraps (mostly in the winter)! Since you can pre-tie it, it’s easy to use when out and about. You just tie it under your coat before you go, and if you need to, for example, lift your baby up from a car seat, you just open your coat and put the baby in the wrap. No need to take the coat off or tie with long wrap tails in the mud.

Do you use stretchy wraps? What do you think? Let me know!

Tricot Click Review

This was also a baby carrier that I got to borrow for my week on Bärsjalsutmaningen (#nyföddisele http://www.instagram.com/barsjalsutmaningen).

Babylonia Tricot Click is a soft structured baby carrier suitable from birth (3 kg, ~50 cm). It is safety tested for <15 kg. The shoulder straps are 55-120 cm long, they can’t be crossed. Waist belt is straight, firm and extend from 71 cm to 150 cm. The back panel is adjustable in both width 22/32 cm (with seat extensions (5 cm) on both sides) and height ~25 cm – 40 cm (steplessly with straps at the sides). The extensions can be tucked in the waist belt when not in use. There aren’t any hood, but the top of the back panel is rounded. Shoulder straps and waist belt are made of canvas, back panel is the same stretchy fabric as Babylonia Tricot Slen, which makes it really soft and it fits great around the baby.

What I like:

It is soft
Easy to use
Doesn’t feel bulky with a new born
The width of the carrier doesn’t have to be adjusted for a new born (unlike many other adjustable carriers for new born babies) which seems comfortable for the baby
The stretchy fabric on the back panel that embraces the child
Shoulder straps are padded, but not too much
I also like that the straps that adjusts the panel hight are partly inside the back panel
Easy to tighten the shoulder straps (forward–>down)
The buckle on the waist belt is in the middle and tightens in two directions, which makes it easier to tighten
I like the safety buckle on the waist belt, which has an “on/off button”, that feels very safe and is easy to open with only one hand (which you sometimes may want to do)

What I like less:

The waist belt is hard
The shoulder straps can’t be crossed
The shoulder straps are a bit difficult to untighten when you want to take off the carrier
Not so much support for the baby’s head
The width of the carrier isn’t steplessly adjustable

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It is a simple and neat baby carrier that feels great for a new born baby.

Tula Free To Grow & Explore review

I got the chance to borrow Tula Free To Grow and Tula Explore for a couple of weeks for my week about #nyföddisele (“newborn in babycarrier”) on Bärsjalsutmaningen on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/barsjalsutmaningen/

As I love to try different carriers and wraps I was so happy that I got to borrow them! Tula has so far not been very interesting for me, because “everybody” talks about them and promotes them to others and I’m more for a bit more unknown brands.

But now I did try them, and I did like them. Still not my personal favourite, but a good, basic carrier that fits most people.

First; Tula Free To Grow

Tula Free To Grow is an adjustable carrier for newborn (3,2 kg) to toddler, (from ~50 cm to ~86 cm). The adjustable panel is 13-38 cm wide (adjusted with snap fastener) and 28-43 cm high (steplessly adjusted with a strap at the top of the panel. Tula carriers have padded, structured waist belts that extend from 69 to 144 cm. Shoulder straps are padded, 55-125 cm. They cannot be crossed, which eliminate ability to wear your child on your hip with this carrier. You can carry your baby facing you in front or on your back (~5 months and older).

The good:

Easy to use, not many adjustments (I like when you can adjust a carrier in many ways, but a lot of new parents find that difficult, so I will put this on the positive side)
Soft for the baby
Suits a newborn very well, but also a toddler, you can use it a long time
Many beautiful prints
Supporting waist belt, firm but not hard

What I like less:

Doesn’t have Perfect Fit Adjusters
Feels a bit big and bulky on me that is pretty small
It is not as soft as carriers made of wrap fabric (Tula does make carriers of wrap fabric also though. They aren’t as common and I haven’t tried one)
Waist belt is quite hard, some people like this better, I prefer softer ones

Tula Explore

Tula Explore is an adjustable carrier for newborn (3,2 kg) to toddler, (from ~50 cm to ~86 cm). The adjustable panel is 13-38 cm wide (adjusted with snap fastener) and 34-43 cm high (adjusted with a “neck pillow” that can eather be down = 34 cm, or up = 43 cm). Also this Tula carrier have padded, structured waist belt that extend from 69 to 144 cm. Shoulder straps are padded, 67-145 cm. They cannot be crossed, which eliminate ability to wear your child on your hip with this carrier. You can carry your baby facing you in front, on your back (~5 months and older) or facing out in front (~4 months and older, when baby has head control). Tula Explore has padded leg openings. Both Tula Explore and Free To Grow are safety tested for ~20 kg.

The good:

Adjustable panel
Easy to use
Front facing out option (although you usually don’t need it as much as you think before you buy your first carrier)
Many beautiful prints
Supporting waist belt, firm but not hard

What I like less:

On me it feels big and bulky (because I’m small)
The shoulder straps can’t be crossed
Shoulder straps are a bit difficult to loosen when you front carry and want to take it off
The height of the carrier isn’t steplessly adjustable (it only has two height options)
Doesn’t have Perfect Fit Adjusters, on this carrier it bothers me more than on FTG, because the shoulder straps are thicker and stiff. I think the panel height adjustment helps on FTG.

difference between shoulder straps on FTG and Explore

The carrier feels too low on me here. (However, except for the waist belt that isn’t horisontally here, this is also an ok position, the baby is fine here too).

New family member

Our second child was born in september, so now my babywearing journey has got an upswing again. Which is very welcomed! My pregnancy was tough at the beginning so I didn’t carry our daughter while pregnant, more than just a few times. Since our son was born in september I have carried them both daily. We have tried many new carriers and wraps, so there will be reviews coming here. Stay tuned! 🙂

Me with our new born baby in a Baby on earth stretchy wrap. The baby’s hat is from Neko slings

ISARA THE ONE review

Now we have had our ISARA THE ONE carrier for almost four months, so I think it is time for a review.

Me and my daughter ~88 cm, arms out. (I’m 158 cm long for reference).

ISARA THE ONE is a superadjustable ergonomic babycarrier that works from newborn to preeschool. Most often it is made of wrapfabric but a few patterns is made of canvas. For bigger children the package includes seat transformers that can be attached on both sides of the panel for (18 cm) more width. The shoulder straps can be adjusted to fit both small and tall wearers, and can be crossed on the back. The carrier has an adjustable and removable hood.

I have always had the opinion that adjustable carriers are better, because they always fit perfectly, and ISARA did not disappoint me! It is the most adjustable carrier I have tried. I have test it with both my demo dolls, one 54 cm newborn doll and one 68 cm (~6 months) doll, and my 2,5 year old daughter, now about 90 cm long. With the newborn doll the carrier needed to be adjusted to the smallest adjustments on both width and height. For newborn babies you can also buy their infant fitting belt –> Infant fitting belt

With my daughter we use the seat transformers, but the main panel is not at full width yet, and since she wants to keep her arms out, we usually do not have the panel at full height either. So we have more adjustability left when she grows.

My husband with our daughter ~86 cm last summer

What I like with ISARA THE ONE:

The shoulder straps are just perfectly padded, not too thick nor too thin, and not too wide.
The waistband is padded with comfortable memory foam.
It is adjustable so it fits both small babies and bigger, preeschool kids.
The additional seat transformers are easily attachable/detachable.
The shoulder straps are also adjustable so they fit both small and tall or plus size parents, better than any other carrier me and my husband have tried. It is actually the only carrier that we have tried that fits him as good as it fits me, usually the ones that fits him are too big for me, and vice versa. They might work for both, but works better for one of us. But, as mentioned, ISARA THE ONE fits both perfectly.
Thanks to the short shoulder straps it is possible to wear it high on the back.
When wearing on the back it is easy to adjust the perfect fit adjusters (or the shoulder strap transformers as ISARA call them because the adjustment is so much longer than pfa normally is), which is not the case with most other carriers because they often tightens to the opposite direction.
Made of supersoft fabric, often wrapfabric.
Easy to adjust to get on/off by yourself, both when wearing on the back and on the front, thanks to 2-way (or actually 3-way) adjustments on shoulder straps. You can always tighten it forward->down, and the buckles are easy to reach, to loosen them again to take the carrier off, or for example if you want to breastfeed in the carrier.
The adjustments on the panel are easy, you can adjust the height while your child is in the carrier, for example if the child wants to have the arms out, but need more support when sleeping.
The head support is easily attached/detached.
The connection clip on the shoulder straps (for holding the shoulder straps together) can be detached if you like, when wearing straps crossed or when hipcarrying.
Additionally I like ISARA as a company, they are familiar, you feel welcome and important to them.

What I like less:

Not much, but a few things;

May be too many buckles for some parents, they provides opportunity for perfect fitting, but may feel difficult in the beginning.
No pocket for the headrest if you want to have it with you but detached.
Headrest is difficult to reach/use when wearing on the back. This is actually the only thing that bothers me, but it can be fixed by fasten longer strings in the headrest, so you can reach it behind your back and get it up over the childs head.

For a babycarrier to be perfect for me it needs to have a few properties; both the waistbelt and the shoulder straps needs to be able to tighten a lot, because I am small, and like to carry the child high on the back. The shoulder straps needs to have ability to tighten/loosen in two places, at the panel and, to the same direction, on the other side of the buckle, at the padding of the shoulder straps (so far only ISARA THE ONE, Fidella Fusion and Neko Switch Baby have been like that of all the carriers I have tried). That makes it easy to tighten the carrier forward and down both when carrying on the back and in the front as already mentioned. It also needs to be soft and thin, made of wrapfabric. And the shoulder straps should not be big and bulky. ISARA THE ONE has all those qualities, and I really like it a lot!

ISARA THE ONE truly is a newborn to preeschool carrier as promised! If you only want to buy ONE babycarrier – ISARA THE ONE would be the perfect choice.

You can buy it directly from ISARA –> ISARA THE ONE full wrap conversions

…or find a local retailer –> Where you can find ISARA

In Finland you can buy it from Kantoliinakauppa –> https://www.kantoliinakauppa.fi/#/ (for some reason they are not at ISARAS’ retailer map)

ISARA have many other products also; dollcarriers, babywraps, a halfbuckle – Quick, and babywearing covers for different weathers.

Weaving my first babywrap

Last summer I decided I want to learn how to weave babywraps. I asked my sister in law if she wanted to attend a weaving class with me, so that we did! Under the fall our first babywraps have been made. We decided we start with an all-cotton wrap, with mercerised dark blue warp, and handdyed cotton weft. She wanted to dye it, so I just said wich colours I wanted and she dyed it. All the other preparations we did together.

After the warp was on the loom it was time to start weaving.

My weft in lovely colours of blue, purple, yellow and pink

I wanted to try different patterns and techniques, so my wrap has three different patterns and clasped weft on two places. Was a lot of calculating and needed to be present all the time, but it would have been boring otherwise, right? 😀

Clasped weft with pink in the blue/purple part of the wrap

I weaved 4,88 m, for a size 6 (4,6 m) wrap. Victorias wrap did not shrink as much as calculated so I did not want to weave so much extra in case it would be too long.

It was so fun to weave my very own babywrap and I can not wait to get to weave the next one!

b.Babywearing festival 2019

October 19th I participated in b. Babywearing festival in Stockholm. It is an exhibition exclusive for babywearing. My expectations were high, and it did not disapoint me, I came back home with great memories.

It suprised me how few visitors there were though, had expected much more. It would be a great opportunity to reach out to new people, for beginners to get help with their babywearing journey, and for non-carrying parents to try it. In the same time it was cozy when most of the visitors were already eager babywearers. Even though I had not met anyone before, it felt like I knew many, because of the babywearing groups on Facebook, and babywearing accounts on Instagram. It was amazing to get to meet so many of you!

A few weeks before the event the organizers asked if someone would want to help out and I offered. So I was helping out at Neko slings stand. It was really fun, both getting to know Hülya and her products, and to help the customers try out the carriers. Neko slings is a turkish brand that have been manufacturing woven wraps since 2015. Before that they had stretchy wraps and sling bags. Nowadays they have woven wraps, stretchy wraps, ringslings, onbuhimos, ergonomic baby carriers, meh dais and halfbuckles in both baby size and toddler size in many beautiful patterns and colours. Check them out —>http://www.nekoslings.com

Many different brands were at the event, also smaller, swedish ones, like MicaLie, J.Wovens, Elk Metal, and last but not least Kajsa Wallin Art, who makes wonderful paintings.

I participated in a workshop with Hedwych/Wrapyouinlove about front cross carry and front double hammock. I haven’t really got the hang of making shoulder flips on those carries, and that was what we mostly practiced on the workshop, so I’m very happy I got a ticket.

In the evening, when the festival was over we went out for dinner together. About 30 ”Big Ass Crazy Wrap Ladies”. That was really fun! Great food, great company. So happy I got to meet everyone of you! I must say the babywearing community is truly wonderful! A few of us also met for dinner the evening before.

With me to Sweden I had a Joli Woven wrap that was going to the testers corner at the event. I got to have it for one week, so we managed to try it in many different carries and I must say it was as near as perfect one wrap can be! So beautiful, amazingly soft, slid into each carry with ease. Joli Woven La Rose Enchantée.

Back to Finland we had another wrap with us. It was actually going back to Canada, but it took a quick trip via Finland. Seawater weaving Tundra, a size 7. At first look I didn’t think it was so special, not really my colours (I thought…). But it was a real chameleonth, and so wonderful to wrap with! Looked orange in some lights and angels, and brown in others. Really beautiful! So long that even in DH I needed to wrap it a few extra turns around my waist (wich was really comfortable). We had it for a few days and luckily the weather was nice so we got som fine photos of it before it moved on. Thank you both for letting me test your wraps!

I am really looking forward to next year!

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my blog. Here I’ll share glimpses of our babywearing journey, reviews of baby carriers and wraps, and other things related to babywearing.

So, who am I? I’m a Swedish-speaking Finn living with my family in Borgå/Porvoo in southern Finland. My family members are my husband, our two year old, a dog and a cat. We live in the countryside and spend a lot of time outdoors. I work full time at a flower shop, and teach line dance once a week. I love learning new things and have many educations and qualifications in i.a dog teaching, agriculture and hortoculture.

Our babywearing journey started 2,5 years ago when our daughter was born. We got an Ergobaby original carrier and raised our eyebrows to those who had more than one carrier/wrap for just one child… *laughter* 😀 Well… after a month I did buy a ringsling and a base sized baby wrap from Little frog. That didn’t really work so then we tried a meh dai, Fidella fly tai, because I wanted to try something in between. I liked that one, but it took some training though. When our daughter was about 4 months I got to try a Fidella fusion carrier (https://fidella.org/en/baby-carrier/fusion) and I was in LOVE! Just had to get one of my own! So the Fidella fusion masala mauve in toddler size moved in. My daughter was 66 cm long then and it was perfect! We still use that same carrier now, over two years later. But we also have a few…well, who am I kidding?… many other carriers and wraps. And have tried many more. At least 25 soft structured carriers since I felt that was more our thing. The last year I’ve also got more into wraps. It turned out to be much easier to learn with a bigger child! I’m also a babywearing peer supporter now, and I love it! What is better than helping others to learn how to wear their children? ❤

You can also follow me on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/babywearingbycassandra

I promise to be inconsisted with updating here, some times I may have a lot to write about and a lot of time doing it, while other times I may not really have the time I would want. If you like me to write about something particular, just send me a message. 🙂