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Putting Baby on Your Back
The most often asked question about back carries goes something like this: "You must need help to get her up there, right?" Nope! There are several methods for putting a baby on your back to wrap up in a back carry. Any of these methods can be used for any back carry. When learning to put a baby on your back, always have another person there to help, wrap baby over a soft surface, kneel on the floor, or take other necessary precautions until you are capable of doing it safely on your own. Remember to support a newborn baby's head at all times.
BABY LYING/SITTING ON WRAP
Until I get pictures of this, visit this page for photo instructions of laying a baby on a couch or bed and sitting in front of baby to get baby on your back: baby lying on couch link
OVER THE SHOULDER (Santa Toss)
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Step 1. Put the center of the wrap at baby's back and bring the sides around baby on either side.
Young babies can be laid on top of the wrap for this, or your baby can be seated on your hip when you place the fabric around them. For a toddler, have the wrap under baby's arms; for a baby needing head support, the top of the wrap should come over baby's shoulders high enough to support the back of baby's head, as with the LYING ON WRAP method.
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Step 2. Bring the two sides of the wrap together in front of baby, gather the ends tightly and hold in one hand. I usually put baby over my right shoulder, so I hold the wrap in my left hand.
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Step 3. Holding both ends of the wrap in your left hand, put your right hand between baby's legs to pick her up by baby's bottom.
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Step 4. Rotate baby around with your right hand on baby's bottom, to place baby gently on your right shoulder.
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This is how it should look from the side.
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Step 5. Bend over so that your back makes a surface for baby to lie on while you do your wrapping. Holding the two wrap ends securely, remove your hand from under baby so that both of your hands are now holding the wrap which is supporting baby on your shoulder.
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Step 6. Take one end of the wrap in each hand. Bring your left hand over your head with the left end of the wrap.
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Step 7. You should have one end of the wrap over each shoulder. From here you can spread the fabric over baby (make sure the bottom is well under baby's bottom, and the top is high on baby's back) and do a rucksack carry, or other carry with the fabric coming over your shoulders.
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Step 8. To move the fabric under your arms for a back wrap cross carry or other such carry, hold baby's back with your left hand, and quickly move your right arm out from under the fabric on the right to come out on top. Then hold baby with your right hand and bring your left arm up through the fabric on the left.
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Step 9. While holding baby with one hand, spread the fabric over baby. The bottom edge of the wrap should come under baby's bottom to baby's bent knees, and the top high on baby's back--armpit or shoulder/head level.
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Now you are ready to wrap baby up!
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THE HIP SCOOT
OVER THE HEAD FLIP
Until I get my own pictures, visit this link for pictures of flipping a baby onto your back over your head/shoulder: over the head link
OVER THE SHOULDER TWIST
OVER THE HEAD
FRONT TO BACK
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