What is a good ergo backpack?

Were you trying to do a thousand things at once with the baby in your arms and decided to purchase an ergo backpack? The first natural question that arises in you: what a good ergo backpack, and what - exactly the opposite. A huge number of offers in stores does not help, but only introduces young moms into a stupor. Let's try to understand the ocean of proposals, systematize them and formulate more or less useful advice.

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When is the backpack objectively necessary?

On the Internet you can find quite conflicting information about this accessory. Here are the arguments in favor of buying the product:

• The child does not want to lie in a crib or a stroller. Calms down only "on the handles."And the pens, frankly speaking, are already falling off. Back, by the way, too.
• You can simultaneously carry a child and do household chores.
• Sling looks pretty, but its winding of many plunges into a stupor, so the backpack is the best option.
• Backpack gives the opportunity to feed the baby breast( you can and on the move).
• Possibility to "harness" dad. Making a man get wrapped in a sling is problematic, but with a backpack everything is much easier.
• Ease of use.
• Mobility of mom or dad. Such "horror stories" as escalators, metro, underground passages and ladders are overcome without problems.
• Rapprochement of mother and baby, which is very important for up to a year. After all, you want to grow a successful, fearless and self-confident person. Then this is yours!
• This item could be put on the first place, but it does not apply to the practical side of the purchase, so it remains on its own. As Odessa Aunt Sonya said, "Firstly, it's beautiful."You will feel it when you want to buy a backpack for a dress, a raincoat or another piece of clothing. Or just like the model with a pussy or elephant - it looks amazing!

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What determines the choice of a backpack?

The choice of this or that model is influenced by such parameters:

• Age of the baby, body weight and height. Depending on these parameters, choose one or another design.
• The frequency of using the device will determine which model the best ergo-backpack will be for you.
• The time of year in which you are going to use the backpack. Here, the materials from which it is performed play a role.

In order not to scatter or "spread my thoughts over the tree," we will focus on the very first and most important parameter: the age of the child.

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How old can an ergo backpack be used?

Producers try to manufacture universal products, but this is completely in vain. Judge for yourself: it is hardly necessary to have the same backpack design for a six-month-old baby and for a grown-up two-three years old baby. The position of the child will be physiologically correct at some particular age, but not all the time when you drag your child in a backpack. Therefore, the best ergo-backpack, the only one at all times, is fantastic. Let's see now what position can be considered physiologically correct.

Correct position in the backpack:

• The baby's hips are bent at right angles. The knees are located above the pelvis. The position is called "letter M".
• The priest seems to be tucked upward, and the back is rounded.

Important! Approximately in this situation, you hold the child, so that it does its "business."Only with the difference that the child is facing you.

What to look for when choosing a good ergo-backpack:

• With a very wide back of the backpack, the extreme part of the backrest passes below the toes of the toddler, so the position of the legs will be incorrect.
• If the back is too narrow, the baby's legs will not have support. For very young children this is not critical, and grown-up kids experience discomfort.
• Sometimes the kid is naughty, although you are sure that the legs are in order. The reason is that the child's handles are located inside the backpack, and he can not get them out.

Important! If you buy a backpack for a child up to a year, you need to choose a model with an adjustable back. Children after six months of age are important freedom of the hands, and adjust the product exactly according to the parameters of the child you can only if the backrest is adjusted.

• No less important point is the depth of the back. Simply put, does it form a "pocket" for the children's "fifth point."With a flat back, it is impossible to achieve a physiologically correct position( legs with the letter "M").Most likely, they will resemble the letter P. You can achieve additional depth by using special cuts, darts and seams.

Backpacks for the smallest

In any case, you can not carry newborn babies in ergo backpacks. Neither the backpack, nor the sling-scarf, nor the sling with the rings will be able to support the fragile back of the baby.

Important! An exception to this rule is the backpack "Comfort", in which you can carry children from 2-3 months. The secret here is in backrest support. It goes not in the middle of the design, but on the back of the child. So - for a two-month-old crumb, such a product will be safe.

And in general, a backpack for a newborn is contraindicated:

• As already mentioned, there is no support for the spine. Because of the relatively large size of the backpack, the load on the spine is too great, which is fraught with problems in the older age.
• Excess load on a woman. Women often complain of the appearance of abdominal and lower back pain.
• Too early lumbar deflection in a child. The lumbar deflection is formed when the child begins to sit.
• Too large a dilution of the legs.

Important! The question arises: from what age is it possible to carry a child in a backpack? The answer is one: starting with 4 months. This is the absolute minimum and that extreme case when the mother can not carry the baby in any other way.

The optimal age for traveling in an ergo backpack is from 6-8 months. Now Mom can do household chores, without a heavy burden on his back.

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Ergo backpack: how to use?

There are 3 options. Let's consider each of them in more detail:

1. Face to face. If you chose this position, use a special insert for the neck, otherwise - the crumb will quickly get tired. As a rule, products are completed by them.

Important! This method is good because the child will feel safe all the time. And Mom will be able to easily track his mood.

1. Face forward. In this situation it is much easier to learn the world around. In any case, the little one will not get bored. And you can touch your mom any minute.
2. Mom or dad behind her. The principle of putting on a sling is the same as for a normal backpack. This method can not be called convenient, but it is optimal if the mother has hands.

Important! The choice of position also depends on the age of the baby. To begin teaching to a backpack it is necessary from the position "face to face".The position "face forward", as well as "behind", is permissible only after six months.

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Rules for choosing a good sling-rucksack

A really comfortable and physiological backpack should meet the following requirements:

• Belt made of dense, strong fabric. He takes on most of the load, distributing the weight of the child's body to the hips and waist of the mother.
• Straps. An excellent option, if you can arrange them crosswise. The product with excessively thin straps is better not to get.
• Wide soft backrest on which the crumb can lean. So - it will not get tired so soon.
• Hood. It will help protect the child from rain and wind.

Important! Bows, rjushechki and other nonsense here obviously to nothing. Functionality of the product, they, in any case, do not add.

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Ergo backpack, ranking the best:

• I love mum light, love and Carry. Pognae. Products are light, made of mesh material with good ventilation.
• I love mum( Premium).A product made of scarf fabric. Excellent ventilation, suitable for not very large kids.
• Manduca. Universal model for any season. The material of production is softened flax.
• The Goose. It is made of mixed fabric( linen with cotton).The model is comfortable, with good ventilation. The same advantages that Manduka has, but the price is much lower.
• I love mum( Smart).A lightweight product with straps crosswise. It differs in the ideal distribution of the load from the child.
• I love mum( Classic).Backpack with wide straps and a two-layer back. A good option for restless and active kids.
• Ergobaby. A well-known comfortable model for the cool season. The back from inside is quilted, in a complete set there is a fixed hood.

Now you know how to choose an ergo backpack. Forward, for shopping!