My Lifesaver!
People ask me every day “How do you do it?” They are referring to how I manage with the kids. Things were very easy when I just had one child, and my daughter was a very good baby. I have been blessed with three more babies. But even when you have the best babies, having three children within fourteen months can get a little hairy.
Joseph, the newborn, is a great infant. He is already sleeping through the night, which is a Godsend because I am not a happy camper when I have to wake up at 3 am to feed and change a crying baby. A part of me wonders if he knows that he is the fourth child and he needs to be a good baby because Mommy has to share my time with three other kids. But regardless of how good he is, there are days were Joseph wants to be held all the time.
A few weeks ago Joseph was fussing after I gave him his bottle. I later learned that he, like his older brother Louis, has acid reflux. The boys were due for their lunch, and they were beginning to get restless and agitated. I was trying to get the laundry finished, as I felt as if I was going to be eaten alive in the deadly pile of dirty clothes. I was about to lose it, when I remembered my BABYBJÖRN Baby Carrier Air.
About a week before, I had taken my BABYBJÖRN Air out of the box and attempted to put it on. Although I had three older children, I had never really used a carrier before. I had purchased two carriers a year ago that sat at the hip to hold my twins, but they were not meant for carrying two babies at once (each carrier crisscrossed my body so that when I put both babies in I nearly lost my head!) and I put the twins in them once and never used them again. So when I took my Air out of the box I was a little lost with how to put it on and how to get the baby in it correctly. I read the instructions and was a little impatient with it, so I don’t think I fully read how to put it on, and I quickly gave up and put it back in the box.
But this was different. I was desperate. There was NO way I was going to be able to get anything done and take care of the older babies when I had to hold Joseph. So I got the Air back out of the box, took a few short minutes to actually read through the instructions and put the carrier on. Joseph fit in it like a glove and he immediately calmed down.
I got a yellow BABYBJÖRN Air Carrier. At first I was worried that when I threw it around in the trunk it would get dirty very quickly, but the carrier folds up so nicely I can fit it right inside the diaper bag and it stays clean. And when you have three babies to pack for, anything compact is wonderful. The baby’s head is nice and secure, and the material is so soft and light for BOTH of us. And once I read the directions, I realized how easy it is to get the carrier on, get the baby in, and adjust it to fit us perfectly. And now that Joseph is getting bigger (he is growing like weeds!), it is even easy to adjust to make for a bigger infant!
(I haven’t gotten a chance to take a photo with the carrier, but it looks like this!)
Needless to say, I was able to “wear” JoeJoe all day (even though I still don’t like that term!), got the boys fed (and even changed their diapers with JoeJoe in the Air!), got the laundry done, and was able to get out the door in time for Juliana getting off the bus from school! My BABYBJÖRN Air Carrier is a lifesaver!
BabyBjorn provided the Carrier Air for my review.
Jennifer
Wife to Paul, Mom to Juliana (7), Anthony and Louis (1) and Joseph (Newborn)
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