Using Woven Wraps
Front Reinforced Torso Carry: Wrapping Tutorial
What is a Front Reinforced Torso Carry? (also known as front reinforced traditional sling carry)
The FRTC is a single shouldered front carry but you can also have you baby off centre or on one hip. It has 2 passes of fabric over your baby, a torso pass and traditional sling pass. It can be tied in 2 ways- with the traditional sling pass on top of, or underneath the torso pass.
What size wrap do I need?
This is a short wrap carry. You can use a base-3 size wrap, a size longer if you want swishy tails or even a base-4 size wrap but you might need to fasten with a sling ring instead of a slipknot. You can work out your base size here.
Pros and cons of the carry
- The 2 passes give extra support to what is basically a very simple carry.
- It can be easy to nurse in
- Good for all ages of baby from newborn to pre-schooler
- You need to take care with tightening to avoid having the carry sag over time
- The basic building blocks of this carry can be adapted to turn it into lots of different carries
- Single shoulder carries might not be as comfortable as 2 shoulder carries for you
HOw to tie a Slip knot
Two videos demonstrating how to tie the Front Reinforced Torso Carry.
The first is the standard way and the second swaps the two passes to make it a pretied carry.
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