Snugli Front and Backpack Carrier

This carrier is designed to be used in multiple positions--facing forward and backward in the front, and on the back. As a result, it's been made extremely customizable with a number of adjustable straps.

While some people may find the prospect of taking the time to customize the carrier to be too overwhelming, it really only takes a couple of minutes and saves a lot of hassle and back strain in the long run.

Anyone who has ever done any backpacking knows that a hiking pack comes with a ton of straps and hooks and doodads. These are designed to allow the pack to be fit to the individual user. The idea is to put much of the weight of the pack on the hips rather than the shoulders, allowing you to carry it more comfortably and with less strain.

The Snugli Front and Back Pack is the same idea. You have three basic sets of straps. First, there's a padded hip strap that goes, ironically enough, around the hips. Then there is a strap that clips the shoulder straps together in the...Read more

This carrier is just fantastic! The lower strap that goes around your hips really helps to prevent any back/shoulder strain from using this carrier. It is designed much the same way that hiking backpacks are and is really comfortable. My baby loves riding in it, and the straps for holding her head are easily adjustable so that while she is facing inwards I can losen them while she's awake and wants to look around and tighten them when she falls asleep to keep her head from rolling around, all whithout waking her up. I like the fact that unlike the Bjorn carrier the straps have clips. It's a small thing but it's faster and more convinent for me not to struggle with threading straps. This carrier does have a lot of straps to adjust however! It's all for the sake of making the carrier customizeable for each adult but this can be confusing at first so be warned. You want to take this carrier out of the box and familiarize yourself with all the straps and adjustments you can make before...Read more

We absolutely LOVE our Snugli! The best features are the 3 positions (baby can face in, out or be on your back) and that you can get a sleeping baby out of it without waking him. I can also get my son in and out, still asleep, by myself.
I bought an old carrier at a thrift shop to see if by baby would like it. It was a total waste of a dollar. It hurt my back and I couldn't get my son out when he was asleep. All problems were resolved with the Snugli.
My husband (6'3") and I (5'9")both wear it, and it's super easy and quick to adjust.

We bought it just before we went on our then 2 month old baby's first airplane trip. We didn't have room to haul the stroller on our trip, so we put our son in the Snugli and carried him around the airport in it. He loved it, too. He was facing us back then. A few weeks later we went to Arches NP, he had really good head control and he wanted to look around, so we turned him around. Since then, we have taken him on MANY...Read more