My baby is now 7 months old. And even though she is generally a very easy baby and goes to sleep on her own most of the time in her bed, I still put her in the wrap all the tme. As you can see, she's a pretty keen traveller this way. And although I own structured carriers, she doesn't really like them and they are far more cumbersome than the wrap.

1) Convenience

It's still so much easier to go shopping with my preschooler having my baby in the wrap than in the pram. It means I can push a trolley (and if I'm lucky the preschooler will oblige me by hopping in the trolley). It means I have two hands free for preschooler wrangling, although I confess my free hands are usually occupied with coffee. 

2) Happy Place

It's great because she's happy to have awake time in the wrap or go to sleep in there. So it really doesn't matter what she needs, those needs are met in the wrap.

3) My number one stress as a first time parent was sleep

Specifically, getting her to sleep. I used to rock her for hours and sometimes I was so tired I just wanted to sit down. But with this baby I know that if she doesn't go to sleep in her bed, she will ALWAYS go to sleep in the wrap. If she's teething it might take awhile, but she will go to sleep. Which means I never have to worry if she is having a hard time going to sleep because I always have a fail safe. In fact she's spent so much time in the wrap that I have a computer set up at eye level when I'm standing so while she's going to sleep I can be doing other things.

4) Good Excercise Option

I'm in the process of losing baby weight. To my horror breastfeeding didn't do the weight loss job for me this time around, so I'm having to do things the old fashioned way. On days when I can't get to the gym, I put my baby in the hug-a-bub and push the preschooler in an umbrella stroller and we go for a long walk. Of course the preschooler doesn't stay in the stroller the whole time but the option is there when she gets tired.

5) Even older babies need skin-to-skin time

As it happens the times of the day when she is most in need of cuddles and skin-to-skin contact are the times of the day when I have the most stuff to get done (hello 4:30pm and I haven't thought about dinner yet). The hug-a-bub wrap carrier is great for me to whizz around and get everything done, especially for those times when she's too overtired to go to sleep on her own

Do you love to wear your babies into their toddler years?