Wrap sling scarf thingy

I have a French friend who has 4 children and swears by the sling scarves. All her kinds have been raised in them and she even didn't have a pram for months with her 1st born. So when I got Logan, one of the first items of my "to buy" list was a sling. I bought one on eBay, unfortunately the seller wasn't reliable and it never arrived, so after weeks of toing and froing I got my money back and was able to order another one from a different seller. Logan was already 6 weeks old by then, and hadn't been swaddled since he was 2 days old.

He's never liked being swaddled, couldn't wait to wriggle about with his arms and legs.

So by the time he was 6 weeks old, he'd not been used to being tightly wrapped. We tried the sling 3 times over 1 week and he never really liked it. So I decided I had to go to a "slingmeet" to see what I was doing wrong.

I went to a meeting in Glasgow yesterday, and I was told to wrap it a different way to what I'd been doing. I then slotted a sleepy Logan in it, and he was fine for about 10 minutes. Then he badly wanted to get out of it. 

The meeting was really good as the girl in charge showed me different types of slings that can be used later on (my Moby wrap is a stretch wrap so can only be used until Logan is about 6 months old) and I really loved her Mei Tai. Plus they're pretty good for Logan's dad as well as they can be used on a back carry like a rucksack.

I went home and looked for Mei Tais on the internet, the price range is crazy. In any case I wasn't going to buy one just yet.

This morning I tried Logan in the Moby wrap again and he screamed. Now I had it exactly how the girl showed me yesterday so not hurting my boy in any way. We tried for 10 minutes and as he wasn't settling I took him out of it again. I can only conclude that he doesn't like it because he can't move his limbs in it.

I think I'm going to sell it on eBay and then get a Mei Tai or something similar, where he can move arms and legs. The whole point of getting a sling is so that we can go on holidays to Orkney without needing to take the pram (won't have space for it in the car with all the luggage for 2 weeks).

The first time we tried it.