BabyBjorn Baby Backpack Carrier

BABYBJORN is a leading brand in baby carriers, especially for front carrying carriers for younger babies. The BABYBJORN baby carrier is designed like a backpack except that the weight is being carried on the front. Both face-in and face-out carrying positions are possible with the carrier.

The carrier is a soft carrier, which means it does not come with hard frames that prop up the carrier. This allows the carrier to be washed in a machine easily. The carrier can also be folded and stored away compactly when not in use. However, the lack of a frame reduces the support provided to both the parent and baby; therefore the BABYBJORN carrier is commonly used for younger and lighter babies.

The baby carrier comes with a head and neck support flap that allows young babies who have little or no control of their neck muscles to rest their head. When carrying your baby in the face-out position, the support flap can be folded down so that your baby's view is not blocked. However, users have complained that the flap doesn't stay down and often pops back up, sometimes hitting the baby on the face.

The original BABYBJORN baby carrier lacks the support for carrying heavier babies, and in response, BABYBJORN came up with a revised design that includes lumbar support for transferring the weight to the hips. However the lumbar support has to be tightly to the extremes to provide significant reduction on strain on the shoulders. Wearing the lumbar support so tightly makes the user very uncomfortable.

If you are small in body frame, the lumbar support doesn't fit around your waist and provides even less support, making it redundant. One of the unique plus points of the BABYBJORN baby carrier is the fact that it allows nursing mothers to breast feed their babies without having to remove the baby from the carrier. The baby can continue to sit in the carrier will you nurse him, allowing the carrier to double up as a nursing station when you cannot find one.

The BABYBJORN baby carrier is easy to put on and take off without any help and is one of the most convenient baby carriers available. Its only downside is its lack of support for heavier weights. If you're lost as to which carrier is suitable for you, you can't go too wrong with this your first baby carrier.