Beco Baby Carrier adventures continue in Maleny, Australia.

Went looking for platypuses (platy-pie?)

Didn’t find any.

But we went up to our knees in mud!

And saw 2 tiny green tree frogs!

The Big Daddy took a video of Beco Butterfly back carrying!  In the middle of a river!  It’s loud, so you may want to mute it!      Beco Back Carry using the hip scoot with a very happy 15 month old!

Beco Back Carry

My family and I headed to the mountains for 8 days at a friend’s cabin, THANK YOU, Sarah!!!! for a refreshing vacation from life!

Green Valley Lake was the PERFECT place to hang out, play board games, and work on my tan!!!  We did a lot of hiking, and only used the car 2 days!  Once to go to Big Bear Lake and a surprise visit to a water park, and once to get to Lake Arrowhead for church and pizza!

My husband and I each brought a Beco (OK, I’ll admit it, I brought 2, LOL) and we USED them!!!  Only our oldest child has legs strong enough for the long hikes we were taking, so we rotated through the other kids and everybody had a chance to ride in daddy’s Beco!

Me?  I was in charge of our youngest who has gotten so heavy and so tall, I think that it’s time to switch him over to back carries only!  The only place I had cell reception was on top of a mountain, so there I was, making my busniess phone calls from a boulder!

Try the Beco Butterfly II!!!  It has a built-in insert so basically you put the carrier on your front, load baby in, and scoot it around to your back!  No worries about baby falling or learning tricky techniques called the Hip Scoot or the Superman or the Santa Toss, LOL!! Those things are really fun to learn later on, but if you are just starting out, try the Beco!

Getting my 3 month old baby on my back in my Chloe Beco I!!!

Didn’t even wake him up

The question has come up recently whether you can cross your Beco shoulder straps.  The answer is YES, but it’s not as comfortable as wearing the straps the way they were designed.

Beco Cross Straps

To cross the straps, unthread the webbing, cross the straps into an X, and rethread the webbing through the opposite D rings.  Pop the carrier over your head and pull your arms through the arm openings, making sure that the chest strap buckles are not under the shoulder straps being pushed into your back.  The nature of the straps means that when they are crossed, the straps ride up on your neck, and also remember not to use this crossed strap technique with a back carry if you are nursing since the straps will put pressure on your milk ducts.  The hood is completely useable with the crossed straps since the snaps on the hood straps are universal for either strap.