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[lollardfish]

Are there any parents on my lj who have used a toddler carrier? Backpack or hip carrier? Shannon and I will need to buy one sooner or later (before Italy this fall), probably after my April paycheck mid-month. It'd be good for the zoo too.

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[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

Gabriel was too huge for anything like that (for me with my pain issues) from day one. rose1thorn, however, used the Maya sling I gave her for several years, she might still use it (miridearie is very petite). I've had lots of friends who loved backpacks as well - I think it depends on what you need to do at the time, as well as how large/active your child is.

The Maya slings are incredible, and designed to be used as long as a child is carryable. Is carryable a word? ;-)

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

We might have ours still. They're very convenient. It is tough to get through tight crowds (like the Mpls farmer's market) but otherwise cool. Want us to look?

[creidylad.livejournal.com]

Gwen was in the maya wrap until she was nearly three and a half and I was just Too Pregnant.

[jdonat.livejournal.com]

We had both. Michelle used a sling when she wanted to carry the kids, and I had one of the most interesting backpacks I've ever seen. It looked like a standard kid backpack, but with one difference -it turned into a small stroller in about 2 minutes. We took it down to Disney World the first year we had it -if I had a van full, I could have sold all of them in FL. There are a number of them online -if you google for them, you'll find a bunch. Ours cost us about 90.00 and we used it for years. Ours looked like the instep one. The one we had was an early model -it turned into a 2 wheel stroller, so you pulled it like a 2 wheel hand cart. The new ones are 4 wheel.

[bellebonnesage.livejournal.com]

We got a Kelty Kids backpack as a baby present, and my husband loved it! He's had lots of backpacking experience, and says it was well-balanced and comfortable. The children loved riding in it as well. The model we had had a stand, so when you took the pack off, it could stand up on the ground, which was perfect for unloading a sleeping toddler.