Mei Tai Baby Carrier

I made this Mei Tai a few months before my baby was even born. I'd never made one before and I had never seen one in person. I attended a meeting of the Austin Babywearer group that meets monthly at Cherrywood Coffee House a few weeks after Kiddo came into the the world and realized my Mei Tai was not proportioned well for my baby. I used the dimensions on a website pattern that no longer exists. I put a pocket that obviously doesn't work since the tie ends up in the middle of it. It seems too wide for Kiddo's body and the straps that hold her on are too close together so she can't move her head around much.

This morning I cut it up and repositioned the straps, redid the body, and put on different more comfortable straps for my waist. I kept most of the fabric and only added some more blue straps. She can now move her head and I made it so she can have more support on her bottom. 

Sadly, she still hates it. Manperson says it is because the Baby K'tan that she is used to is alot more flexible.  Both fabricwise and how it can be worn. This is supportive, but in being very supportive it is also restrictive of movement. Kiddo does not like to have her movement restricted. She also does not like to have her legs in this position. Back to the drawing board. I have fabric to make Manperson a baby carrier, but until I can manage one that works better I don't want to experiment on the fabric. I'm thinking I need to make the body of this even more narrow to take into account that Kiddo likes her legs to hang straight down which is the way they end up in the baby k-tan. The length of the straps work, but Kiddo also like lots of upper body freedom, so it needs to navigate that fine line between supporting her upper back and letting her support herself.