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Celebrity Babywearing Watch: Whoops, you CAN wear a Bjorn badly…

Courtney Thorne Smith wearing Bjorn badlyCourtney Thorne-Smith loves to wear her son, Jake, and is constantly photographed wearing all sorts of baby carriers – which I love to see. I just found this old picture of her and Jake when he was just a wee one and… ouch! This cannot be comfortable. Although one of the nice thing about Bjorns is that they are easy to use, clearly, mistakes can still be made.

I choose this picture because it perfectly illustrates a lot of what I teach in my classes about using baby carrier properly so that it is both safe and comfortable for you and your baby. The first lesson is to always wear youCourtney Thorne Smith wearing Bjorn betterr child snugly on your chest, so that you can easily kiss the top of his head. The way that Jake is positioned here, his weight is pulling on Courtney’s shoulders and neck and is bound to cause strain within a fairly short period of time. Pulling the carrier much more snugly will result in a more comfortable position for mom, AND baby won’t be dangling quite so much, which is probably nicer for him, too.

Courtney is a quick study, though, because she sooned learned proper use of her Bjorn carriers (see pic at right), and, better yet, moved on to the much more comfortable ERGO baby carrier.

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