Ergo & Newborn (need help ASAP!)

Looking at the you-tube videos it looks a lot like a buckle MT (the structure) so I imagine that even though it says you have to use the infant insert up to 15#'s there has to be a way around that right?

My sister is borrowing my Ergo with her newborn, well she is already a month old now. She couldn't make the Ergo work withhout the insert, so I bought it for her and she LOVES it. I think she carries that baby around all the time in it now. At first I tried to show her how to use some recieving blankets to prop the baby up, but it didn't work well and made the hands-free more difficult. All that to say she is really happy with the insert.

bree wrote: Not to thread-jack, but Clare - how hot is it down your ways? I'm wondering if it'll be comfortable to wear baby in the ergo + infant insert in August/September's hot hot weather?   Sarah, I've heard people do it - but I'm not sure how. I think the insert would make it a lot easier.

I wondered that, too. Looking at it and feeling it, I don't think the insert would be any hotter than a baby propped up with blankets, yk? I do think it would be really hot for both baby and mom outside in the middle of summer, though. I expect it would be fine inside with the AC cranked. Maybe someone else has personal experience. My sis did take the baby around in it outside at a St. Patty's festival and it hot out. I'll have to ask her if the baby got sweaty.

The insert is really nice. I was expecting a fuzzy cotton, but it is a nice smooth, light cotton if that makes sense. I don't really have any experience with carriers with newborns. I didn't get mine until Micah was 7 months or so.

I hated the ergo insert and had better luck with a blanket, but FWIW I never loved it for the NB stage and preferred my moby.  Maybe try looking up how to best fold a receiving blanket to use instead of the insert?