{"id":1245,"date":"2008-04-11T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/sling-vs-baby-carrier\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T08:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:25:14","slug":"sling-vs-baby-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/sling-vs-baby-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sling vs baby carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In your comments on the post about how Lucas doesn&#8217;t like to be put down, a few of you mentioned how slings saved your life.  I have a second-hand Baby Bjorn carrier that I used on and off for Simon, but Lucas doesn&#8217;t seem to like it.  Mind you, we&#8217;ve only tried it two or three times, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to appreciate his face being smushed into my chest and I&#8217;m not sure how old they have to be before you can switch them to forward-facing.  It&#8217;s a great way to get the vacuuming done, but he doesn&#8217;t tolerate it for much else.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a home-made hammock type swing I made for Simon, but I think the fit is a little off and while I used it a couple of times, I actually found Simon liked the Baby Bjorn better.<\/p>\n<p>So did you find the sling much better than the baby carrier?  Is it worth spending the $$$ on one of the fancy ones?<\/p>\n<p>Help, getting desperate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your comments on the post about how Lucas doesn&#8217;t like to be put down, a few of you mentioned how slings saved your life. I have a second-hand Baby Bjorn carrier that I used on and off for Simon, but Lucas doesn&#8217;t seem to like it. Mind you, we&#8217;ve only tried it two or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/sling-vs-baby-carrier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sling vs baby carrier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}