I am trying very hard to be a baby sling sort of momma, as you know.
Tell me. Assuming you wear your baby while you’re dining…
Is it common to look down and see any number of dribbles, droplets, plops and crumbs on the top of your baby’s head?
I can’t help but thinking that this is just bad etiquette.
AMDG,
*Updated Later in the Day to Include:
Real friends come by at a moment’s notice to give instructions on sling-wearing.
I’m the one who’s decidedly postpartum.
My (little) friend Erin is on the left.
As a sling-lover, let me just say… yes. Try, of course, not to drop hot things. Or sticky things, as they tend to get smooshed all over the sling and your clothes and the baby. But crumbs? Fair game! Water? Spill it! And until your baby gets old enough to grab them and put them into his own mouth, they’re still perfectly okay for yours–it isn’t as though they’ve reached the floor, you know!
If you’re still troubled, just think of it as payback for all the times he’s bound to spit up on you…
Congratulations!
Jenny
oh good, that means i’m not the only one!! 🙂
oh, all the time.
the worst is when a condiment drops on their head-ketchup, mustard, salad dressing…
😀
When they are new little ones, I just put a thin napkin over their head. They’re usually sleeping and don’t know. Hey! Postpartum is a time of hunger-don’t judge me! 🙂 When they are older I just eat turning my head to the side.
~Kristen
LOL funny…I like the comments!
I love wearing baby, but need a new sling…I am not large enough for the voluminous one that the other three used…It annoys me…
Oh well, I have six months to get or make a new one…maybe it will even be stylish…with a little mesh net that stretches ove the “open area” to catch crumbs!
I don’t remember that so much, but I’d second the napkin usage!
Yes, just put a thin dishtowel over his head and watch out for that hot coffee (and sunshine too)!
How do you wear a sling and not smush your now fuller and possibly leaking breasts?
That is my question!!
You look lovely by the way!
Totally normal, but try to keep the crumbs out of baby’s ear. Don’t ask me how I know …
You look decidedly beautiful!
wow, you’re beautiful.
Yep- my kiddos received lots of crumbs. Napkin trick works great.
And…..there’s a great book by Dr. Sears called The Baby Book and it has all kinds of pics for using it in different positions.
You look beautiful, Margaret!
Once at the carnival I was eating a funnel cake and only after a while did I notice that my baby’s dark head was covered with white powdered sugar. that fits the noticable and sticky descriptions 🙂
(that’s me in the photo)
In my postpartum days with my first baby I craved Vietnamese food, and the neighborhood where I worked has several restaurants within walking distance.
So my baby’s hair was always full of rice and fish sauce.
A bit more noticeable than powdered sugar!
Margaret, you look great!
What’s great is when the baby gets baptized and you can just bend your head down and drink in the smell of that chrism oil!
My babies always have crumbs in their hair. And sometimes bits of chocolate and whipped cream.
Congrats, Margaret. You look radiant!
I’d put a light blanket over them while I ate or to cover them up to keep curious onlookers away from my breasts while they nursed inside the sling. People can’t tell you’re nursing until they get digging in there when you’re small chested. Trust me, they can get peaking in there before you can stop them. I found it easier to cover up with a blanket when we were both snacking or if I was eating something really messy or hot. In the picture, I see you have baby propped up with the sling around baby’s head a bit. This is likely to pose him so we can all see his too adorable cuteness…thank you very much, because I would have complained that I couldn’t see him! When you’re wearing him about, you can use a very soft hand towel or gymboree type blanket to prop him up as a kind of pillow under him, but put him down in a bit further so the sling doesn’t rub around his head like a band as it is doing in the picture. The one I have is padded and won’t leave a mark around the head, but you may find the one you have might leave a bit of a mark or rubbing on him if you wear him as you do in the picture. You’ll do this by positioning his body down further in the sling with his feet further towards your other elbow. In the picture, he’s sitting up a bit more. The picture’s position is a very good position for babies with reflux after they have nursed, keep this in mind should he tend to spit up quite often after nursing or get fussy with reflux/colic. I put my little ones further down in the sling, prop them up a bit with the blanket/pillow so they don’t get lost in the sack when they’re newborns and off we go. The sack then nearly completely covers them and they rarely get a crumb, sunlight or anything else on them, unless I reposition them to bring them up a bit more for a while. (Sometimes, if I’m really active, they can get a bit jostled about in the sack and I have to boost them back up a bit to “sit” them up a bit more, but this is because I’ve been bending over picking up siblings, playing kickball, picking up laundry baskets, running the sweeper…you get the picture…really busy movements. No, the child isn’t bouncing all of the place. The bending movements tend to make him slip down little by little because the sling will rest on my legs when I bend over. I have to slide him up again after a while.) Check out Over the Shoulder Baby Holder on line. I’ll bet there are videos on you tube to see how to vary some positions with baby slings. I hope you enjoy the sling and baby wearing. I love it and even converted my mom when she would help watch the children for me. We always kept one out for her to use too. If you find it to be too binding on your shoulder as baby grows heavy, be sure to switch from side to side or even put a gymboree type blanket under it for more shoulder comfort. One of those gymboree blankets sure does come in handy, I hope you received one as a gift! Enjoy your sweet baby Joseph. I’m so happy for you – admittedly jealous, but happy for you!
Kathi (sorry for the anonymous post, I can’t remember my google account…the story of my computer life!)
I’ve never had a problem with my babies getting any kind of mark on their skin from the Maya Wrap, which is the sling in the picture. I’ve always preferred unpadded slings to padded ones because the extra bulk bothers me. Nor have I ever needed to prop baby up with any kind of extra material in the sling — I have always found that if you think you need something like this, you probably need to adjust the fit.
I have a sling that I would, by the looks of it, guess came from the same place. The most wonderful thing about that sling is the “tail” which is perfect to cover baby’s head. Sunlight? No problem. crumbs? No problem. Wind (what? I live in Oklahoma, it’s an issue) No problem. That tail even works against nosy friends and neighbors who just want a peak!
LOVE my sling!