My mother-in-law and I braved the Brookline baby stores yesterday...Magic Beans in Coolidge Corner and Isis Maternity in Brookline village. I wasn't ready for the complete Babies R Us blast, but it was time to dip my toes, as it were, into the baby pool.
Magic Beans on Harvard Ave (http://www.mbeans.com/ )was our first stop, and I tried on the Ergo baby carrier first. It was something I'd been admiring for awhile online. The Ergo carriers (http://www.ergobabycarrier.com/ )are organic and come in a TON of attractive colors, and all the mothers and babies in the pictures are beaming with good health and general joie de vivre. They run from about $89 on up, and the one I tried was $120. Unfortunately I could barely strap it on even with the help of a very helpful salesclerk, much less extricate myself and the toy baby. So it was onto the Baby Bjorn Active, $130(on right) which was, sadly, much easier to use and more comfortable. I am generally against all things appearing sporty, but there's a reason the Baby Bjorn has been so popular for so long. Plus my brother Donovan uses it for my niece Lulu, and that guy knows whats up. Then it was stroller time, and Magic Beans has a great selection. But I'll write about those later, because I'm still in sticker shock.
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