Hoppediz Elastic baby sling User manual

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Carrying instructions for the elastic baby
sling for premature and newborn babies
Elastic baby
sling

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Warning!
The oppediz elastic sling
is suitable for:
Care:
without motif: washable up to 60°C
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with motif: washable up to 40°C
    
no optical brighteners
The oppediz elastic sling
is not suitable for:
Please read these instructions thoroughly before
using the elastic sling.
Always watch your child and ensure that mouth and
nose are not covered.
Get advice from a health professional if you want to
use this product for a premature baby, one with a low
birth weight as well as a sic ly one.
Ensure that your child’s chin does not rest on
his/her chest since this can cause respiratory problems
and suffocation.
Ensure that your child is sitting safely in the elastic
sling and that there is no danger of falling out.
Start with short carrying times and increase it
gradually in order to have your muscles get used to
these new movements. Principally, there is no limit in
time regarding the carrying period.
Pay attention to ris s in the home environment, e.g.
heat sources, spilling of hot beverages, chemical agents.
Only use the elastic sling for the number of children
it is provided for.
Never use more than one baby carrier at the same
time.
 Your movements and the movements of your child
can impact your balance.
 You should always be aware of a higher ris that
your child might fall out of the elastic sling as soon as
it becomes more active.
 So please be cautious when leaning or bending
forward or to the side.
 Don’t carry your child if your balance or mobility is
impaired by drugs or illness.
 The elastic sling is not suitable for sports activities
li e running, bi ing, swimming and s iing.
 Do not carry your child while coo ing or cleaning
the house or during other activities involving heat
sources or chemical agents.
 Don’t use the elastic sling in or on (motor-driven)
vehicles.
 Please chec the elastic sling at regular intervals
for signs of wear or damage (e.g. torn fabric, damaged
seams) and do not carry your child in a damaged sling.
 When not in use, eep the elastic sling out of the
reach of children and store it, e.g., in a sling bag or in
a wardrobe.
 Please ma e sure that your baby is securely posi-
tioned in the sling according to the tying instructions
and that the not is held firmly in place.
 Never leave your baby alone in the sling when you
do not carry her/him.
 In case your little ones cannot hold their head by
themselves, we recommend to support your baby’s
head by pulling the sling edges over the bac of
his/her head.
 Your child must face towards you until they can
hold their head upright.
 Ensure a proper placement of your child in the
product including leg placement.
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WARNING!
FALL AND SUFFOCATION HAZARD
SUFFOCATION HAZARD: Babies younger han 4 mon hs can suffoca e in his produc if face is pressed
igh ly agains your body. Babies a grea es risk of suffoca ion include hose born prema urely and hose wi h
respira ory problems.
• Check of en o make sure baby’s face is uncovered, clearly visible and away from caregiver’s body a
all imes.
• Make sure baby does no curl in o a posi ion wi h he chin res ing on or near baby’s ches .
This posi ion can in erfere wi h brea hing, even when no hing is covering he nose or mou h.
• If you nurse your baby in carrier, always reposi ion af er feeding so baby’s face is no pressed
agains your body.
• Never use his carrier wi h babies smaller han 8 pounds wi hou seeking he advice of a heal hcare
professional.
FALL HAZARD: Leaning, bending over or ripping can cause baby o fall. Keep one hand on baby while moving.
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Contents
2 ABC of warnings
3 Contents
4 The advantage of carrying in a
Baby Sling for the baby
5 The advantage of carrying in a
Baby Sling for the parents
6 Practical experiences with the baby sling
for premature and newborn babies
7 Wrong carrying!
FRONT CARRYING
8 The wrap cross carry for newborn and
premature babies (with skin contact)
15 And this is how to get back out of
the wrap cross carry!
Carrying methods from
the first day of life
CAUTION! WE URGENTLY RECOMMEND YOU TO KEEP
THESE INSTRUCTIONS FOR FURTHER REFERENCE!

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Babies are not just babies, they can be carried,
and carrying helps to satisfy one of their primal
requirements for closeness and security.
In the case of ”premature babies“, the loss of
time in the mother’s womb can be compensated
for outside the mother, but extremely near to her.
Carrying binds both mother and child even more,
especially if they had less contact earlier on.
When close to your body, your baby feels
secure and protected. e feels your movements,
and he can hear and smell you. This has positive
consequences for the entire physical, motor and
mental development.
The sling is also a suitable means for the
parents of adopted children to give their child
security, safety and a sense of basic trust.
Flatulence, and the pain caused by three-
month colic, can be considerably reduced by the
light massage caused by the movement in the
sling and the warmth of the person carrying him.
Babies are gently comforted by the light
swaying movement, just as they are during the time
in the mother’s womb (even in the case of children
who cry a lot and have colicky pains), and often go
to sleep during carrying.
The sense of balance is trained particularly
well by the wide variety of movements which the
baby makes with you from birth onwards. The
metabolism is also stimulated.
The spread position of the legs has a positive
effect on the development of the hip, and can also
help to diminish incorrect positioning and to correct
such problems. You should seek additional advice
from your orthopaedic specialist or physiotherapist
in the case of incorrect positioning.
Infants are naturally provided with a rounded
spinal column. For this reason, it is also beneficial
for their development if they do not have to lie
”straight as a board“ in bed or in a pram. Thanks to
the special weave used in your OPPEDIZ Baby
Sling, the cloth adapts individually to your baby’s
body and supports him. This is not possible with
other carrying aids or bags.
Your baby can observe the world ”from
above“, and right from the beginning he has the
feeling that „I belong out there“.
The advantage
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You can always have your child with you
wherever you are (shopping, on the beach, in the
woods, jumble sales, bus, train…). This is not
possible with a pram.
In addition, your requirements for closeness
to your child will be met simply and naturally,
even (and especially) for premature babies.
If you have an older child (or even several)
which also needs his „share of kindness and
affection“ then you always have your hands free
while the baby is in the sling.
Lighter housework (dusting, vacuuming, …)
can also be carried out with your child in the
sling, and you do not have to wait until your child
is sleeping. This means you have a little more
time for yourself and can use the baby’s rest
times for other purposes.
You get to know your own child much better
due to the close contact and quickly recognise
and react to his requirements better. This means
creating a very good foundation for a sense of
basic trust.
When you carry for longer periods, you have
your child near to you and do not overstretch your
arms (you should start with shorter carrying times
so that your back, shoulder and pelvic musculature
can gradually get used to these new movements).
A sling does not take up much space and is
quickly to hand. When, for example, your child is
learning to walk and gets tired after a while, you
can simply put him in the sling. This means that
you can react better to your child and do not
need to spend all your time battling with a pram.
Fathers especially have the chance to build
up an enjoyable and intensive relationship with
their child/children when they are carrying them in
the sling, and to experience and consciously
enjoy the resulting bodily contact.
The advantage
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with the baby sling for premature and newborn babies
I am a children’s nurse and breast-feeding and lactation
consultant, and carried out my carrying consultancy
training last year. During this time, I got to know the
premature baby sling. I was immediately thrilled by the
wonderful carrying comfort and material characteristics.
While I was searching for suitable carry slings for par-
ents with premature or newborn babies, I got to know
the elastic sling supplied by OPPEDIZ. It combines
a high level of carrying comfort for parents with the
exceptional elasticity of the cloth for children – a feel-
ing of ”elastic limitation“. Since the dimensions are
smaller than those of normal baby slings, it is extremely
easy to tie even when carrying very small children.
Why is carrying and being carried, however, so impor-
tant for both parents and premature babies? The answer
is simple. The habitat experienced by premature babies
changes drastically compared with babies ”still inside
the womb“. They need to catch up, process and deal
with an awful lot. And of course, the earlier they come
into the world, the more they need to do!
The following en e are given optimum
timulation when being carried:
balance deep sensibility
vision hearing
schmell
and not forgetting the skin,
the body’s largest sensory organ.
At the same time the child learns to deal with these
”stimuli“ during bodily contact. We should never forget
that the natural environment for newborn babies is the
parent’s body – and even more so for premature
babies. Even when the baby is about to be overtaxed
by all these stimuli, he is able to sleep and protect
himself in the secure knowledge that he is being held.
The baby is capable of regulating his stimulus level
while in bodily contact. e becomes quieter, and the
parents learn a feeling of security while handling their
child. They can catch up emotionally, together with
their child, after a prematurely ended pregnancy and
enjoy the first period of bodily contact.
Both mother and father become acquainted with han-
dling their baby, and can also fill up the child’s ”chal-
ice of primal trust“.
I do hope that all babies are able to experience the
feeling of being carried during their life, especially
those who are premature!
Sincerely,
Your Jutta Pipper
Children’ nur e
Brea t-feeding and
lactation con ultant
(IBCLC)
Practical
e periences

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The supporting cloth between the legs cannot be pulled wide
enough (“the spread-squat position” is not possible and a round
back is prevented). The legs hang downwards / backwards in a
non-physiological way and can swing around.
The back is not supported properly because it is being pressed
against the stomach/chest of the carrier and, therefore, takes up a
hollow back.
The head of the little ones cannot be supported properly and it
sways back and forth.
The baby can see what is happening in front of him/her but
he/she can only clearly recognize the immediate surroundings. These
many impressions may cause overstimulation. If an uncertain baby
now wants to make visual contact to the person carrying and cannot
find it, he/she would start to cry.
The baby is sitting on the lowest point of the upper body, so
his/her weight cannot be held regularly tight by the sling. Boys are
subject to pressure against their testicles and girls to their pubic
bones.
If you are still of the opinion that you should carry your baby in the
sling looking forward you should tie him/her in this way and have a
look in the mirror to see how your baby is hanging in the sling!
ALTERNATIVE:
If your baby is very curious and cannot see enough when carried in
the different front carrying variants, please try the hip carrying and
rucksack carrying variants. With these variants, your baby can look in
“the direction of travel”.
Many parents think that they are doing their baby a favour if they carry him facing
the way they are walking. Even if you have seen this being done by other sling
wearers, it is wrong to do it for the following reasons:
Wrong carrying!

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The wrap cross carry
for newborn and premature babies
A WELL UPPORTED
BACK I IMPORTANT!
Even when installed during the
duration in the womb, the double-S
form of the adult’s spine only
develops in the course of the first
year of your baby’s life due to the
muscles exerting a strain on
vertebral bodies. In order to avoid
slumping in the child and to main-
tain good breathing, it is important
to optimally support and reinforce
their back during its development.
In a baby sling or carrying aid, the
hip should be oriented to the front
(refer to the “spread-squat position”)
so that the back is rounded in its
lower area. In the range of the
thoracic spine, your baby is upright
and leans against your upper body.
The carrying aid or the baby sling
should be firmly tightened so that
your baby (except their head) has
body contact and will not fall into
the carrier when you bend forward.
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and guide them below the
cross length of the sling on
your front.
Ensure that the sheets have
not twisted.
To tighten, grab very far back-
wards toward your neck >
Now, gather the sling ends in
one hand
old the centre of the sling
(see marking), spread it in
front of your upper body
and place the sling edge on
your chest.
Move along the sling edge
and guide the sling tightly to
your back by sliding the sling
edges through your hands.
Take both sling edges in one
hand.
Grab below the sling with the
other hand and take the
opposite upper sling edge.
Take the sheets up (bat-like
arms) and bring them easily
from the back
over your shoulders to the
front.
The sling should lie
completely on your shoulder.
Cross the sheets and pull
them apart. Only grab the
edges of the sling in order to
avoid twisting the sheets.

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and pull the cloth of the sheets from
there to the front,
and also below the cross length. Repeat this step until you reach a good
basic strength and feel yourself supported.
The upper edge of the cross length
across your chest should particularly
be rather firm.
Now, measure the so-called loop length
and cross the sheets in front of your
belly button. In this way, you can
determine how firmly or loosely the
sling will fit in the end.
During the first tying, measure the loop
length in the area of your belly button. If the
tying result is too loose, you should cross
the sheets the next time one or two finger
breadths above your belly button, and if it
is too firm, then you should take one or two
finger breadths below your belly button.
Now, guide the sheets
backwards in parallel, if possible, cross them behind your back, bring them back to the front and tie a
double knot on your front.

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and, with one hand, grab
through the opposite loop.
Then, take a foot of your
baby and carefully guide it
downwards.
Place your baby slowly onto
the other shoulder and
Place your baby onto your
shoulder
Now, the sling is well pre-tied and you
can keep it, theoretically and practically,
for a longer time.
Gather the cross length downwards in
the area of your waist in order to place
your baby in the sling.
Pull the loops with both hands a little bit
downwards and forwards beyond the
cross length of the sling.
and also thread the second foot through the loop. Your child should be positioned high on
your chest so that you can kiss their
head. The sheets are passing behind
your baby’s knees. >

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Spread it completely over
your baby’s back and
from one hollow of the knee
to the other one
and from one shoulder to the
other.
Repeat this with the upper
sheet.
Look for the inner sheet and pull it over your baby’s back. Spread it evenly over your baby’s back
from one hollow of the knee to the other
one and from one shoulder to the other.
You must grab underneath the second
sheet in order to effectively place it in
the hollow of the knee.
The same applies to the shoulders.

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Finally, pull the cross sheet of
the sling over your baby’s
back, i.e. the sheet coming
over the side from the rear.
Guide both feet under the sheet. Grab the edge of the cross
sheet and slowly pull it over
your baby’s back
until you feel enough cloth in the neck
to have a small bulge.
Finally, grab the inner sling edge in your
neck and pull the cloth to the front. This
will tighten the sling edge at your baby's
head and they will not disappear under
the side sheets.
Pull the cloth from your neck area onto
your shoulders.
This will distribute your baby’s weight
away from your neck musculature to
your shoulders.
Grab behind you and pull the lower
edges to your lower back in order to
make the sling fit more comfortably.
To avoid heavier babies sinking down-
wards over time, pull the knot to the
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untangle it and tie it more firmly. You can bring sheets which are too long
to your back and knot them.
This is what the properly tied elastic
sling looks like. It is tightened firmly
enough when you can bend forward
without your baby (except their head)
losing body contact.
If you wish to give your baby a clear
view, then grab the inner edge below
the sheet and guide it
over the shoulder to the outside. The
sheet has now been tipped over.
The cloth is tighter to your shoulder and
the baby has a clear view.
You can support your baby’s head by pulling the
other sheet over the back of the head. owever,
ensure that your baby will not always look into the
same direction when carried. •

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… you do not have to untie the sling
completely. Only pull the cross sheet
downwards,
and thread the feet out. Pull the sheets over the back
to the side and take your baby out of the sling. You can leave the sling tied round and
place your baby back again later. •
If you want to take your baby out
of the elastic sling …
And this is how to
get back out of the
wrap cross carry!

Stand November 2020
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