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We went to the DFW Family Expo on Saturday to join our Dallas Dads Group and Britax for a great time. Kelley put her Boba Babywearing skills to the test while there, but it wasn’t long until Avery was out and running around everywhere!

Britax put on a very detailed and informative workshop on car seat safety and we all walked away with vital information on how to keep our kids safe in the car. Avery hasn’t been around large crowds before, so she was basically crazy the entire time.

Despite the craziness, I always enjoy hanging with our Dallas Dads Group, and when Going Mom and Avery can join, all the better! I’ll give the full story on our adventure soon.

Do you enjoy going to expos?

If so, what kind and do you bring the kids?

Babywearing is and always will be one of the best ways to simultaneously bond with your child and also take care of things around the house or running errands. I’ve published many posts declaring my love and support of babywearing and even had an article published on Huffington Post explaining “Why I Wear My Baby”.

I’m so convinced about the benefits of babywearing, I even created workout routines for babywearing parents! And who wouldn’t mow the lawn with their napping baby? Plus, as a dad wearing his baby in public, there’s plenty of laughs to be had each time I need to use the public restroom, here’s 10 I listed.

But enough plugging of past posts, I wanted to quickly share our exciting, kind of late, news. Thanks to Boba providing their 4G Carrier for me to give to Going Mom as a Christmas present, my wife now has her very own baby carrier!

Over the months since we had Avery, I was fortunate to have great companies like Ergo and Onya Baby send me their carriers for review. I am still using them both to this day and love them, but Kelley never had one fitted just for herself and I was always overprotective of the ones we had. Yeah, I’m mean, sorry, dear. 🙂

We are grateful to Boba for sending their organic Verde design carrier and Kelley has already made use of it on several walks.

I had to at least try the Boba before calling it off limits to myself, and used the front and back carry positions. I’ve been mostly carrying Avery on my back in the Onya, so it was different wearing her on the front for a long walk. Different in a good way though, I got to see Avery’s sweet face instead of wondering what she was doing on my back.

That said, I still enjoy the back carry position. The Boba has soft but durable straps that I make it comfortable for carrying your baby for an extended amount of time, and it fit okay when I had it on. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend a Boba to any current or expecting parent, but would say I still like wearing Avery on my back with the Onya better.

For front carrying, the Boba wins my vote over Onya, but I would choose the Ergo Ventus that I reviewed over the two. Granted, I only used the Boba a few times, and Going Mom will be sharing her review with a guest post after extended use. After wearing Avery in her new Boba Carrier on a long, cold walk, I’d say they both kept each other warm and snug….