Zolowear Ring Sling

Large

Bliss Blue Paisley
A Woman’s Work – $90.00

Pros

Super fashionable
Variety of ways to carry her
Easy to get off and on and to get her in and out, so it’s great for running quick errands
Pocket on the tail end is a great place to stash keys and a pacifier
Machine wash/dry
Easy to cover her head (either with the tail or extra material from the body) so she can be really private
Ring slings in general are fairly inexpensive and you can get them from a variety of places (like etsy, ebay, WAHMs etc.)
Lots of fabric options
Josh and I can wear the same size sling (even though he won’t use it)
Easy to learn how to wear it
Even though there are a lot of carry options, you still put the sling on the same way for almost all of them
You can do a back carry with it (with a toddler according to instructions)
Tested to carry even over 35lbs
Can be used for newborn and up

Cons

Kind of hard to adjust – I feel that sometimes I can’t get it tight enough or that it’s not supportive enough for her
No matter how many times I’ve been shown how to gather the material through the rings, it still gets bunched up and hard to adjust when she’s been in it a while. This may be because of the type of fabric this sling is made of though, I’m not sure
I can’t wear it for too long without getting some back pain or shoulder pain since it’s the weight is distributed asymmetrically
Every time I put it on – I feel I put it on differently (in terms of where it fits on my body, how tight it is, how she fits in it.)
This particular sling was expensive
Every time she comes out of the sling and goes back in, it needs to be readjusted (and most of the time I take it off between carries)
If she’s facing front, sometimes I feel that the top rail is choking her (probably more my problem with how I have her seated in the sling than anything else)
Because the weight is distributed across one shoulder/top of one arm, I find that if I have the rings across my right shoulder, anytime I reach with that hand or extend my arm and shoulder (my dominant hand) I disturb the position of the sling and have to fool with it (so I don’t use it when I’m doing housework.)
After six months of use, the serging on the edges is beginning to fray and fuzz, especially where it threads through the rings (not a safety issue, just a cosmetic one.)