The Carrying Phase Doesn't End at 12 Months. Your CarrierDoes.
Here's what nobody tells you when you buy a baby carrier.
It works beautifully at 4 months. At 6 months. Sometimes even at 10. But somewhere around the time your baby becomes a toddler — heavier, squirmier, more opinionated about everything — the carrier you spent €150 on stops working. Too hot. Too complicated for a kid who wants in
and out every five minutes. Too much weight pulling in all the wrong places.
So it goes in the closet.
But your toddler doesn't go in the closet. They still want to be carried. On your hip at the supermarket. In your arms when the legs give up halfway through a walk. Against your chest at
11pm when nothing else will do.
So you carry them anyway. One arm. One hip. One side. Day after day. And your back, your shoulder, your hip — they pay the price.
The problem isn't that toddlers don't want to be carried. They absolutely do. The problem is that the entire carrier industry stopped designing for them. Walk into any baby store and count the products built specifically for a 2-year-old who still wants to be close.
You won't need both hands.
