The Smith Tribe

I thought I would do a post with *my* interpretation of apron/non-apron tying of mei-tais.

So to start, when referring to an apron…. it’s not this:

but in fact this (the ones grandma has ) :

So to tie a MT “apron style” would look like this:

(The body of the carrier is coming from the bottom of the waistband and will come around baby’s bottom and back up)

Non- apron style is the opposite:

The body of the carrier is coming from the top of the waistband.

For a front carry, the main difference then is just the height of the carrier. For Ezra (now 3mths) in this particular MT, apron style means that he can see out:

Non-apron is more helpful for sleeping – the back of the carrier comes up higher on him. (scuse the goofy look on my face, i hate taking photos of myself!!!)

I don’t have any MT’s with angled bottom straps, but I would imagine that it would be virtually impossible to tie it non-apron style. However, with a straight strap on the bottom or a padded/wide waist, either work!

This video is how i currently put Ezra on my back up high, toss and then tie apron style (when i bring the bottom strap under his bottom i flick it under – i thought i was more obvious when i was doing it but apparently not!) oh and the delay once he’s there that you can’t see is because i was struggling to move his arm into the carrier to bring the strap over my far shoulder.

I can’t get the silly thing to embed here…. so here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgxvs9yxqmQ

Oh and in the 10 minutes since sitting down to write this post…

(I think he likes it!! )