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Why do you still wear your 4 year old in a baby carrier?

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I still wear my almost 4 and a half year old in a baby carrier, and here's why...along with some questions I've been asked about that choice. Why do you still wear your 4 year old in a baby carrier? For a lot of reasons...sometimes, it's because I skip zumba or barre to go to target/sleep/clean/go to target/spend time with my kids/go to target/etc. and I want to feel less guilty about that choice so I decide to burn some extra calories that way. Or because I take my kids out for pizza and gelato and I don't want to spend the whole meal hating myself for eating it (like pretty much every other American woman I know, working on that one in therapy, thank you very much.) It's an excellent work out, child-wearing, and she told multiple people at my workplace "it's not too hard for mommy, it just makes her very sweaty." Other times it's because I need to get some work done, either around the house or at work, that involves lots of running around ...