I have a Babyhawk Mei Tei and M will only sleep in it for maybe 30 minutes (if I'm lucky) and yet he can sleep in the carseat sometimes for 2 hours!!
Any advice to get him to sleep longer while I wear him? I haven't tried a back carry yet so I don't know if that will help or not Any suggestions ladies? I would rather wear him than the carseat/stroller.
My LO needs a relatively consistent environment while she's napping in the carrier. She sleeps longer if I'm moving around, but the catch is that I have to keep moving around. (I try to reclaim this as a positive by calling it my secret to postpartum weight loss.) She likes white noise/noisy public places, but if the noise stops, she tends to wake up. I also find it helps if I have her positioned so she can't see much--then if she does rouse a little, she's more likely to go right back to sleep. Whether she's on my front or my back doesn't seem to make much of a difference, though.
We have a Beco Gemini and a mei tai--she'll sleep in either one, but the Beco's more comfortable for me now when she takes long naps because she's pushing 18 pounds and my mei tai's not padded.
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