How To: Moby Wrap with a Newborn vs Toddler Tutorial

Hey guys, welcome back. Today I have such a fun video for you. This is going to be a tutorial on how to use the Moby Wrap, how to put it on, and then I'm going to demo it not only with a newborn. I've got two-week-old baby Eden, my friend Sue's baby, and then also I'll show you with Kaylee and she's just a month short of two. She's a little bit petite, but I think it'll be a good demo showing you what it looks like to use the Moby from both newborn stage all the way up to a year or two. So let's go ahead and get started. So the first thing you're going to want to do is to shake out the Moby, get it all nice and flat, and you're going to find either the center tag or the sticker in the very middle. You're going to go ahead and wrap this in half, so you're just going to fold it, it makes a little pocket, and try to get it as close as you can to fold it right in half. Then you'll take that sticker, put it right where the belly button's at, and we're going to cross these back behind our back. Once you've got a nice cross, then you're going to go ahead and bring these over your shoulders and we're going to have a pocket on either side. So we'll have a pocket opening to the center here, also a pocket opening to the center over here. Now I've got two really long straps. We're going to actually just bundle these up, and then you're going to tuck it through this pocket, and then we're going to cross those over underneath. Now you can tighten this up a little bit. If you're going to be wrapping a newborn, you can keep it pretty snug. If you want them real close to you, you're going to be going through, doing laundry, a bunch of things, or you can keep it a little bit looser. I'm going to just leave it about this snug. You'll learn after you've tried it a few times. Then we're going to do the same thing. We're going to cross this over in the back, and then I'm going to bring it back around front and tie a knot. Now don't worry if it doesn't make it all the way back to the front. You can tie it in the back, no issue. It's just all about sizing and getting it a custom fit to you. Now I'm just giving it a good double knot in the front, and now we're snug and ready to grab baby. All right guys, so I've got baby Eden. She's, I think, getting ready to nurse and got the hiccups right now. So let's go ahead and do this. So I'm going to go ahead and put her on my left side, because as you can see in my little cross here, this side, my right, is underneath in this X. So I'm going to start from on the opposite side of the low one, and then I'm going to go ahead and open up this pocket, this one that's opening to the center, and I'm just going to kind of slide her little legs and her booty onto this side. So I'm just going to go ahead and wrap that over and make sure it's just kind of folding like a little envelope, and just bounce her in. Then we're going to do the same thing on the other side, and I'm just going to open up this little envelope, and we're just going to bounce her little legs on into that side. There we go. And then we're going to go ahead and reach down here underneath. When we first use that little sticker or the tag, we're going to just go ahead and pull that up, and we want to make sure that we're doing it kind of envelope style. So flatten it completely out. I usually like to take these little tags and just kind of fold it underneath, so it's just kind of cute and everything's all tucked away. And then here we go. There she is. See, I told you she's hungry. She's reaching. Also, if you want more of a secure hold, you can definitely kind of do a little bit more tucking with these, especially since, you know, if you're wanting to carry a baby and get them to sleep, you can kind of do a little bit more tucking on the opposite side that they're facing so her head is just nicely tucked in there and you've got lots of airflow on the side. This definitely is a great one if you're having a hard time getting baby to sleep. This is a great way to do it. It helps relax you and relax baby. Anyways, here's baby Eden in the Moby Wrap. All tucked away. Now let's go ahead and get Kayley and you can see what a two-year-old looks like in the movie. Okay, so we've got our two-year-old Kayley here. By the way, the audio got messed up on this portion, so I'm doing a voiceover, but this is the exact same technique. So I'm taking her on my left side since the right is underneath and I'm just going to open this up envelope style and mainly you're focusing on getting that underneath their little booty and the leg in. After they're in that little pouch, it seems like it's really easy for them to realize that they should just go ahead and give you a hug and it's easy to just tuck the shoulders in after that. And then I do the exact same thing, kind of spreading it over the back and then I'll grab that very centerpiece, the one that had the sticker in the very beginning. And I like to do Kayley's legs wrapped, so you can completely wrap the legs and up the back if you'd like or you can untuck the legs and just kind of use that as a little shelf, you know, kind of under the booty, legs dangling if you'd like. But Kayley really likes it to snuggle. So this is how we use the Moby Wrap for a two-year-old. I will also leave a link up above that has Kayley when she was a newborn, so you can see what she looked like in this exact wrap when she was newborn. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to give it a like and also subscribe and I'll see you soon.