The Search for a Sling...

Baby bear has been a little bit fussier these days. I've been reading all of my books, and they all point to the same thing...she's having a growth spurt. The odd thing is that she's been having this growth spurt on and off for weeks now. Some days, it's great. She eats every three hours, naps well and sleeps well at night. Then a couple days later she'll want to eat every 1.5 to 2.5 hours throughout the day and sleeping is really hard for her. Right now, padawanlee is walking her back and forth throughout the apartment hoping she'll calm down. She just woke up out of a sound nap and we're hoping she'll go down again...but I know that she's hungry...again.

So in the meantime, it makes it really difficult for me to get anything done during the day always having to either feed or carry her. So this week I decided, I need to get a baby sling. So thus began my research.

I first ventured onto the web to search, I came across Zolowear. I like the different fabrics (pretty silk!), but with Carissa's hip harness I don't know if I'll be able to carry her well in it. Plus, some of the slings were kind of pricey.

So then I found this website called Mamma's Milk that has all the different types of slings and even a directory of slings. I started looking into wrap style slings. These are a little bit more complicated to handle, but it seemed that it might work better with her harness. But check out the tying technique for the wrap that I liked here. It seems a little complicated, but it seems like the best style for baby bear.

Then when I was looking at the price, I was astounded. $99 for a piece of cloth! I should try to make my own, if that's the case. So I looked online again. I found this website called mamatoto which has instructions on how to make wrap slings. Ordinarily enough, it's just a long span of cloth and you don't really have to sew the thing at all. $99, what a joke!

So I found my new project. I'm going to make a baby wrap. Uh, I hope this doesn't turn out like the furniture rearrangement. Which perhaps with the help of auntie roachyface we might start this weekend