Adding to the general sense of time slipping away

[conuly]

I woke up the other day trying to remember how to do a JBC. If I had a small child to carry on my back I'm sure it'd be automatic again.

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Too true!

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Comments

[elayna]

JBC?

[conuly]

Jordan's Back Carry. It's a way of carrying a small child or large baby on your back in a long woven wrap. Requires a lot of fabric, and you don't want to use a stretchy wrap like the Moby. It's unusual because it's asymmetrical.

[elayna]

Interesting! Thank you.

[conuly]

It was my go-to for Eva when she was little because it kept her from her favorite game of dramatically flipping backwards and making me hoist her back up. When she slept I switched her to the more supportive (but less restrictive for deliberate flipping) Back Wrap Cross Carry, the BWCC.

And then I tied her head to my shoulders with a very, very thin scarf, with a huge air gap on each side. If I didn't, her head would flop backwards and the biddy brigade would come out in full force to tell me all about it. Amazingly, nobody once seemed to think she might suffocate under a scarf except for me. I used to stop every few minutes to make absolutely sure she was breathing back there.

[elayna]

I’m with you! I’d worry about carbon dioxide poisoning.