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Dear Li,
Many supporters of baby carrying say that babies should be carried constantly for the first few months of life.

Jean Liedloff author of The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully, based her work on spending several years with the people of the Yequana tribe in South America. She noticed that the Yequana babies were content, happy and well behaved. She put this down to the benefits of baby carrying and from it she developed the Continuum Concept which she says, "Consists, simply, of the infant having 24-hour contact with an adult or older child. For millions of years newborn babies have been held close to their mothers from the moment of birth."

Of course, the baby's positioning is important in all carriers. Ideally newborns should be positioned lying on their backs in a cradle position, like a hammock, or tummy-to-tummy with the head and the spine supported along its length.

With the ERGObaby Heart2Heart Infant Insert, newborns can enjoy the recommended, supported, and natural upright, tummy-to-tummy position that the ERGObaby Carrier offers.

Older babies who can sit by themselves can enjoy sitting on the back in a backpack-style carrier. Back carrying positions are only suitable for use with babies over the age of six months , when infants are able to sit up on their own and have fully developed neck muscles to support the head properly.