The market for children's products is expanding every day. This is not surprising - after all, all parents are eager to give children the best, the most modern, the highest quality and convenient. Annually dozens of new products appear, designed to facilitate the lives of parents and children.
In this article we will talk about one of these novelties - an ergo-backpack for children: from what age can you use, what to look for when choosing, how to dress an ergo-backpack, how to wear, etc.
The names of such a backpack can be a lot: backpack-carrying, ergonomic or sling-backpack - all this is the same. There are many models for different ages of children, for winter and for summer, for boys and girls. There are even special ergo-backpacks for twins, which allow you to carry two children at the same time (with your hands free). Unlike a normal backpack, the "double" provides that the children are located symmetrically, on the sides of the parent, wrapping it on two sides with diluted legs (in a frog pose).
How to choose an ergo backpack?
Parents often think that an ergo-backpack is a new name for a long-known kangaroo. But this is not so. Despite the similarity of design and the same purpose, slingshower has a lot of advantages: it distributes the weight of the baby better and does not overload its spine, wide breeding of the legs helps the correct development of the hip joints, and a reliable wide belt redistributes the load (the weight of the child) from the back and shoulders to the hips of the parent . In addition, compared to the usual sling, such a backpack is easier to wear and remove. However, the sling is more individualistic and flexible in terms of adjusting the length, tension density, etc., because in fact, the sling is a fabric fabric that you can tie in the way you want. Ergo-backpack in winter is much more convenient than sling, but in summer the crumbs may be hot in the dense "shell" of the backpack.
Therefore, the first most important rule of choosing an ergo-backpack is the correspondence of the characteristics of the chosen model to the requirements of your child's age. Unlike the sling, which you can pull or make more free almost anywhere, the ergo rucksack is adjusted with the help of lines that can be tightened, making the tension stronger in the middle of the back, or relax (and, accordingly, make the backrest more free). Therefore, when choosing an ergo-backpack, give preference to those models in which the most opportunities are to "adapt" to the child. After all, the baby is growing, and it is possible that the backpack, which is ideally sitting today, will be just as comfortable in a couple of months or even weeks. If the fabric on the back is taken folds or prishchishitsya on the back - this is a sure sign that the backpack does not fit you in size and buy it is not worth it.
What else is worth paying attention to:
- quality and environmental friendliness of the backpack material;
- ease of care (the fabric should be well cleaned, do not change color and shape after washing;
- reliability of fasteners.
At what age can you wear a baby in an ergo backpack?
Despite the fact that some models are positioned by the manufacturer as suitable for children from the first days of life, it is very difficult to find a really suitable backpack at this age. Even if the backpack provides for the possibility of wearing a child with legs inside (in the embryo's pose), it is undesirable to carry the baby in it for a long time. From a month and a half to wear a crumb in the embryo pose is undesirable (neither in the backpack, nor in the sling) - the kid reflexively pushes the legs, "jumps", although his
Most models of ergo-backpacks are designed for use from 4 months. You can also focus on weight - kids with a weight of up to 7.5-8 kg is very difficult to choose the right backpack, they are too light to fill the backpack completely, and therefore often sit in it incorrectly. To be sure that wearing a crumb in your backpack will not harm him, be guided by the ability to sit crumbly - as soon as the kid learns to sit on his own, without support, then you can use a backpack to carry it without fear.