Types of slings

What is the baby sling

A baby sling is a popular device for carrying a baby which was invented many centuries ago.

Carrying a baby in a SlingoStyle baby sling gives mothers more opportunities to do what they want to do any time. But what more important is that it is very healthy for babies. The fabric of a sling covers a baby like the womb had been doing it before. While you are moving your baby is rocking like he had been doing it in the course of 9 months inside of you. By the way one of the advantages of a baby sling is that your baby hears the mother’s heart and breathing! The pediatricians of the world are sure that all these things are very important for the physical and psychological health of babies and their intellectual development. You can use a SlingoStyle sling since your baby’s first days. A baby’s position in a sling is similar to position in mother’s hands.

Using a SlingoStyle sling has also advantages for mothers. It helps to have your hands free to do other things you need to do or want to do. It’s very easy to breastfeed your baby in a SlingoStyle sling and nobody can notice it.

Moreover, SlingoStyle slings take care not only of babies. Specially selected colors of the material help you to be beautiful and stylish in any situations. And the comfortable design of SlingoStyle slings helps you to live as fast as you wish.

The Mei Tai

What is a Mei Tai Sling?

The Mei Tai sling combines the form of kangaroo carrier and the comfort of the wraparound sling. Wide straps distribute the weight over all your body and reduce load on your shoulders. The straps also support baby’s back and remove the load from his spine. The baby’s position in a Mei Tai Sling furthers in prevention of the dysphasia of the hip joint and reduces the load on the baby’s perineum. A sling goes usually over two shoulders.

Mei Tai Slings are becoming more and more popular in western countries because of its comfort for babies and parents and its versatility. Even fathers who usually are very skeptical about other types of slings and soft baby carriers have favorable attitude toward Mei Tai Slings because of the outlook of this type of slings.

What is a Ring Sling?

This is the most popular type of slings. Ring Slings are adjustable and easy to get on and off and baby can change positions without getting him out: seat him from your front to your back or get him in the cradle hold. A baby can not only sit in a baby sling and observe the world but also eat mother’s milk unnoticeable for other people and then he can easily fall asleep right in a sling.
The rings are some kind of lock here: the second tail of the sling is passed through them and firmly fixed with the baby’s weight. A sling goes over one shoulder and around the torso of the adult. There is a pouch in the sling in front of you where you can place your child. Your baby can sit and lie in different positions and even turn inside the sling. You can change the size of the sling by pulling and loosening its edges.

The Moby Wrap

What is a Moby Wrap?

The most universal sling. You can carry your baby in any position possible with other types of slings. A sling goes over two shoulders, so weight is distributed evenly on your shoulders, back and the small of your back. So the Moby Wrap is suitable for a long walk journey. There is also a way to carry baby on one shoulder. The Moby Wrap is wrapped around you and the baby is fixed with several layer of fabric. It is very secure and comfortable.

You can carry your baby in a Moby Wrap different ways. More often, a baby sits in an upright position face to face with you. Newborns can be carried in a reclining position (the cradle hold). You van breastfeed your baby without being noticed by other people and you don’t need to take him out of a sling and to tie up a sling again.