Comments on: Moby Wrap Original 100% Cotton Solid Baby Carrier, Black

By: ExpatMummy

ExpatMummy — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:27:16 +0000

Best wrap ever! I was rather scornful when I had my first and thought it looked like Origami and spent $$$ on the Bjorn instead, as well as a few others. This time around I picked up a Moby and I love it! When my baby was very new, I’d wear her for up to four hours at a time WITHOUT getting a sore back, shoulders, neck, etc. Best wrap to use once you figure out how to wear it. Would recommend it over an above other wraps without any hesitation!!! Only downside might be the Australian heat…

By: Pretty Fly

Pretty Fly — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:38:27 +0000

Some people might prefer long enough baby carrier, but this is way too long. It takes some time to wrap all the carrier around the body.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: S. Michalak

S. Michalak — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:52:55 +0000

The hospitals should give these out to every new mom as they leave to go home! Only 4 mos pregnant and cannot wait to use this! Very easy to wrap, most holds are used with one wrap method and this is a huge plus in my book. The wrap came in a nice cotton bag for storage in the matching fabric color. The material is soft and light, very breathable. From now on, I will be gifting a Moby at any friend’s/family’s baby shower I attend.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Gift Card Recipient

Gift Card Recipient — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:08:18 +0000

This product was a huge dissapointment. I was so excited when I put it on my x-mas wishlist a month after my son was born. Tried to wear it all through x-mas dinner and unwrapping gifts, and it was terrible. The main problem is that the material is STRETCH cotton. My tiny 6lb son started out plastered to my body with the tons of fabric nearly smothering him, then slowly would slip down into a little ball and the fabric would be completely covering his head, which was obviously unsafe. It was also very warm – TOO warm. I tried just once walking outside with him in it in the middle of a Washington, D.C. winter and I was sweating.

If it were made of plain cotton it might work. Plain cotton would be more breathable, too. It’s advertised as being made of “stretch cotton” but I’m sure it actually has some polyester or other substance that gives it the stretchiness, and also makes it suffocating for mom and baby. Anyway, if it were plain cotton you may as well just buy a bolt of plain cotton from the fabric store for a lot less.

I wouldn’t recommend this product to an enemy. If it were possible, I’d give it 0 stars.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: K. Smith

K. Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:47:08 +0000

I’ve been struggling getting the wrapping right on this – it’s just a really long piece of fabric and a book of instructions about the various ways to wrap it around yourself to form a sling. Sometimes the baby has adequate head support, sometimes I basically support her with my free arm to make sure her head doesn’t snap back, or to make sure she doesn’t have her chin too close to her chest. Anyway, I was just doing some work around the house and thought the baby’s head was secure, but it wasn’t, and her head snapped backwards, hard, out of the wrap. I am so upset. I hope this hasn’t done permanent damage.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: vknoesel

vknoesel — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:32:36 +0000

Even though it comes with instructions, it is way too complicated to use. I was hoping to use it around the house but you need to know some acrobatics and balancing skills to get the baby securely in this thing. Not to mention, it shrunk 2 feet after I washed it (following the instructions, mind you). Now I have to tighten it in the back versus the front. It’s now destined for the donation pile. The Baby Bjorn is easier to use.
Rating: 1 / 5