I am really loving my woven wrap and am so happy I bought one after lots of wonderful encouragement from this community! The comfort of it is second to none so we use it daily.
However I struggle when we are out… my baby is 5 months old so when I go somewhere where I have to take her out and then put her back in, I am almost losing my mind. It is incredibly difficult to do this simple task because I don’t like the material dragging on the dirty ground. Do you have any tips at all on how to get around this? Or do you simply use a different carrier for trips like that? The issue is that most of our outings consist of out and back in so I would miss out on using it a lot which would be such a shame because I just LOVE the comfort.
If it touched the floor i would have to wash it! I used Front Cross Carry in a base +1 pre tie and knot at front and can lower for breastfeeding too. I used it for a 6 hour flight and all through airport. It is a very safe carry and forgiving with the tightening as baby.
Would you like youtube link? I kept it on all the time and kept putting baby in and out!
Thank you! My baby loves to lean back a lot to see what is going on so I feel like this might not be safe. How did you deal with that? I wonder if this can be somehow modified to help with this?
Hi this must only be used with a woven wrap (not in any way stretchy) that's the first thing so it is stiff, meaning if you put this knee pit to knee pit, each pass tightly, if your baby leans back it will not move! My baby loves to push back but the fabric is woven so she cant move it if I make it tight enough!
If you still dont like the idea of it you can do a pocket wrap cross carry in a woven with a skip knot. I do it sometimes it's s but harder but you get a horizontal pass too
I will send here below. I can only do this in a base +1 (for me. 6) because of the skip knot but i think you would be fine if you had a spare ring to do it in a base.
So we took a walk in this and these are my thoughts:
I love that this totally contained my wriggly baby who is both a leaner in all directions and a seat popper, so this felt really secure
I was positively surprised that this didn’t put any pressure on my belly like it does for me with the FWCC
I love the slip knot so it’s easy to tighten on the go
it did what it promised and that is that it was easy to pop baby out without untying anything!
Unfortunately a few downsides too:
while it was easy on my belly, I felt this was very shoulder heavy and they ached after the walk. With the FWCC I have the opposite, my shoulders feel light but I get the pressure on the belly.
I found this quite hard to tighten properly so I wonder if that’s why it felt shoulder heavy…? Basically the tightest layer was unfortunately the horizontal one because it was easy to pull on the knot but obviously harder to do that with the first two layers. I miss the easy tightening as with the FWCC, maybe that’s why it’s a beginner carry 😂
And of course, as with every carrier, my baby loves to lean to one side as in the photo above which makes it much less comfortable for me but I haven’t figured out a way in any carry or carrier to avoid that. Although this carry felt the most secure of all! In others she leans even more. I feel like she just doesn’t want to stay straight, way too curious! I think everyone would tell me to tighten even more so she can’t move but I honestly can’t imagine tightening any more because even if I make it so tight that I can barely breathe she will find a way to wriggle to the side!
This is a lovely photo you look so snuggly! I am so glad you tried it and seems some success! You are right it requires a lot of pulling through the slack so it is not all just taught on the horizontal pass. I do pull both sides of the slipknot to get some out but it is the middle you have work through. I do think it looks like you have a super thin wrap there which will make it really unforgiving and just really hard to work with.
On the tightening front you are right this needs to be tighter for both of your comfort. If you dont you will create pressure points rather than a spread across the whole wrap which you seem to be experiancing. Plus babies can feel not secure so try and lean or get out!. You can't tightenit too much the fabric and your body stops it been dangerous. I also think you seem to flipped it at the shoulders which is creating slack in the inner top hem/rail.
That's my take away, a new wrap would help you here and tighter!
Sounds like I might have to experiment more with tightening… if my little one lets me 😂 she doesn’t like if I wrap for too long although I noticed that she is getting more patient as time goes on, I wonder if they get used to the process?
As an nyc mom I absolutely hate things touching the ground, too! I'm brand new to woven wraps, so I am not the person you are asking lol. But I think there are ties called "poppable" which means you can take baby in and out without taking the wrap off your body. That could solve the problem!
I do like it but my baby recently started heavily leaning backwards to see what is going on and now I don’t feel safe with this carry anymore… looking for a suitable alternative!
I agree it is not the best for leaners but my baby loves to push back but the fabric is woven so she cant move it if I make it tight enough!
If you still dont like the idea of it you can do a pocket wrap cross carry in a woven with a skip knot. I do it sometimes it's s but harder but you get a horizontal pass too
I will send here below. I can only do this in a base +1 (for me. 6) because of the skip knot but i think you would be fine if you had a spare ring to do it in a base.
I've been loving the poppable Front Cross Carry (different from FWCC) and recently been experimenting with a Sling Cross Carry (basically the same as FCC but one pass is a sling pass instead of going under the leg) for this purpose, or a shorter base - 2 so it's easier to stop the tails from dragging.
Oh I am not sure if I came across this one before… do you mean that one pass goes over the baby and would therefore be suitable if my baby likes to lean backwards? Not sure if I am picturing this correctly.
Yes exactly! Apparently it's actually called the Front Cross Sling Carry, good for leaners and seat poppers because it has both types of passes! Not quite as fast to pop in and out but still completely doable without retying.
Update! Just tried this and it was really comfortable wearing it! The only issue I had that when I tried to get baby out of it, the whole wrap just undid itself and fell onto the floor. Luckily I was home but didn’t expect that to happen. Curious if I wrapped something wrong? Do you manage to get baby in and out without untying in this?
Oh hi! How much length did you have in front before off? For carries like this .when getting baby out undo your double knot to just be a half know(so not secure but still crossed over) loosen the knot so there is more slack in it (pull it down into your tails). Take baby out. It should still hold with half knot. Pop baby in, tighten up and then add the final knot onto of your half knot to secure again.
That is what I did actually, so am not sure where the issue was… I wonder if I did the mistake of pulling both of the passes down to get baby out instead of pulling one of them up over baby’s head as it was originally shown in the video. Could that be the issue? I didn’t expect that to make a difference.
Yes! I sometimes have to loosen the knot slightly to pop him out and usually have to retighten either way after popping him back in, but as long as you don't fully untie you should be able to pop in and out it in just a few seconds with no tails dragging.
I use a half buckle so not sure it’s exactly the same, but I always wrap it standing outside my car & I put the ends in the trunk. It’s not perfect but it prevents most of the dangling on the ground.
Ok here’s a wacky idea, what if you got a packable blanket to carry with you and could stand on that to put it on. I have this one & love it for outings with baby.
I typically wear stretchy pants with side pockets so I just shove all the tail into the pockets when I'm working. Depending on what carry you're doing, you could try a shortie wrap with less length to it, but most shortie carries are for back wraps. Another thing I've done for a beach photoshoot was bring a big beach towel to stand on while wrapping and unwrapping so there wouldn't be sand everywhere.
The thought did cross my mind that I should have perhaps chosen a shorter size of the wrap because it’s always a bit too long however I tied it so far, but unfortunately can’t change that now but good to know for the future, although would like to keep the one I have for years because it’s perfect otherwise. Good idea with the stretchy pants!
This is why I mostly didn’t bring my woven with my first but used a different carrier. I want to change that with this baby so I bought a shorter wrap and I’m practicing with different carries that can be pre tied.
Semi pocket wrap cross carry is a popular one that I quite like. It’s supportive and it has a slipknot which makes it easy to tighten after putting baby in. But it does require you to learn how to walk the slack out/tighten a multi pass carry.
If you live in a muddy place it probably makes a difference. I don’t care if a piece of cotton gets dirty, but I don’t want mud on my shirt/purse/car seat.
A poppable carry is the answer! Front cross carry, front cross sling, front double sling, front reinforced torso sling, coolest hip cross carry or variations on those are all of my favorite front carries
Honestly I just let the tails touch as needed (unless I’m standing on a mud puddle). For me wraps were a functional part of life and while I have some that are beautiful and not cheap I don’t want any that I felt needed to be treated as if they were precious.
This is the way. The ground has to be very wet or muddy to get any dirt on the wrap. A dry ground or floor is no issue. Additionally the ends are usually what hit the ground and it's never near baby's mouth.
As soon as I accepted this my wrapping was way less stressful and I was shocked at how clean my wrap ends were. Snow was especially good :)
I totally get it! For me personally I am more worried about hygiene and germs rather than the way it looks or anything. My baby often plays with and mouths the carriers so I just don’t want her to get in touch with the germs.
Put it on at home, the fwcc. Tie a knot in the back. Doesn't matter if baby is in the wrap or not. When baby need to go into the wrap, you u do the knot ans tie the ends in a single knot in the front. This will keep the ends off the ground. You put baby in, tighten, cross, knot in the back.
If baby is already in and you want to take baby out, woj open the knot, tie a single knot in the front, loosen the wrap og take out baby.
For a front carry I also tie a fwcc ahead of time and put the ends on the seat when I tie but if it was really mucky I would probably chain the ends like this video.
You can try some poppable carries and just keep it tied so all you have to do is tighten it up after baby is in. If you are near an elevated surface, you can wrap so your tails are on a bench or inside your car so tails never touch the ground. I also just stopped caring about tails on the ground at some point. The tails are almost never close to baby’s face except if you have a carry tied at shoulder and you can just wash wraps when they get dirty.
More wraps!
Seriously though, a wash every now and then for easy care wraps.
I've also somehow managed to master FWCC pretied so it's just a matter of popping them in then making it a bit looser to pop out.
Also recommend using a ring sling for this, if you're able to tolerate wearing it for a longer time. I appreciate your baby is 5mo and my newest wrappee is a newborn, so things are a bit different.
Oh interesting, a pretied version? Did you come up with this yourself or did you see this somewhere? Maybe I have to try this. Although curious how it would work with the cross passes underneath the legs…
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u/fiddle1fig Mar 04 '26
You can slip-knot the ends of the wrap so that the wrap is essentially shorter for a short while and then easy to lengthen