When I was pregnant, I bought a cheap baby carrier from Lidl for £10. It was quite sweet, seemed fairly robust (to my untrained eye) and I was happy with my purchase. My son came along a few months later and when he was about a month old I put him in the carrier at home so that I could get on with making the lunch. He usually wouldn't sleep in the day, but within 30 seconds of being in the carrier, he was fast akip and I was able to potter around - wonderful! Unfortunately about 15 minutes later my back was really aching (he was quite a big baby, very tall and heavy). I desparately wanted to put him down, but couldn't find a way to do it. In the end I had to bend down ...  Read the complete review

To be honest when I was expecting my daughter, having a carrier didn't even cross my mind. With all the excitement of shopping for a pram and other baby accessories I really didn't think of the practicality. As when my daughter was first born I hadn't yet passed my driving test so when dad was busy at work, it meant I had to get public transport to and from places and my space ship of a pram sometimes was awkward to get on and off the bus! Not only this, when trying to do things around the home like dishes and cooking and cleaning it meant I was constantly moving around the flat and so for ease and peace of mind I decided to get this carrier from my beloved website ...  Read the complete review

As any expectant mother will surely know, there is a period just before your baby is born when you cant really do much but you need things to keep your brain engaged. I therefore set myself the task of researching a baby carrier, as I and my husband are keen walkers so we wanted to be able to incorporate our baby into this without the hassle of lugging a pram around. After reading all the reviews in any baby magazine I could lay my hands on we settled on the Babasling as it had had rave reviews and we liked the fact that it seemed simple to use. Boy were we wrong! Needless to say it got half a dozen outings, resulting in half a dozen rows and is subsequently ...  Read the complete review

I bought this carrier in a bit of a hurry during that manic last phase of pregnancy where you feel you have to buy everything immediately otherwise you will never be ready for the baby to arrive (of course, when the baby does arrive you realise that all those things that you thought would be essential actually didn't matter at all, and actually those precious first weeks of maternity leave would actually have been far better spent putting your feet up and eating chocolate whilst watching DVDs). Consequently, I didn't put as much thought or research into buying the carrier as I should have done, and just plumped for the Tomy Freestyle as it was middle of the ...  Read the complete review

I bought this while pregnant and I was convinced I would use it all the time when my baby was born. Sadly this was not the case and bar some dribble stains it is still as good as new 8 months on! This was very cheap for a baby carrier, and I now know why. My baby was too small to use it for a few months (have to be 8lb I think) so we opened it with great anticipation when she was big enough. Thankfully there were 2 of us when we decided to use it as it was exceptionally complex to use, so many straps and fasteners. I still haven't figured out how to use it on my own and I have reluctantly retired it for this baby. It can be used front facing when they are ...  Read the complete review