Use wrap size base -1 (one size shorter than for full DHC)
Double Hammock Carry TAS (tied at shoulder)
or DHC TAS
step by step photo tutorial
(thanks to Phaedra and Sun City Singers)
Step 1. Center the wrap on baby’s back and put baby and wrap on your back. Step 2. Keeping the top rail tight under your chin or between your knees, reach behind and under your baby’s knees to pull all the excess wrap width down to the bottom and then up between you to baby’s knees.
Step 3. Keep the other end secure and bring one end over your shoulder.Step 4. Gathering so that all the slack is out of the wrap, bring the other end under your arm.
Step 5. Bring that end across your chest and spread over your breasts to create the chest pass and pass the wrap under your opposite arm.Step 6. Pass the wrap to your other hand behind your back and pull the top edge of the wrap up high on baby’s back.
Step 7. With the wrap spread across baby’s back, take one end in each hand to tighten and pull out any slack throughout the carry.Step 8. The ‘L pull’ helps to get all slack out of the chest pass and both passes over baby.
Step 9. Put the wrap end coming over your shoulder down between your knees to hold it tight.Step 10. Bring the other end of the wrap up over your shoulder.
Step 11. Tighten the wrap strand-by-strand as it comes over your shoulder.Step 12. Put the wrap between your knees to hold it and go back to the first wrap end (the long end). Without losing tension, bring it straight down under your arm.
Step 13: Here you can do a bunched strap that goes behind both knees, but Phaedra is doing a reinforced Double Hammock with a horizontal pass spread across baby’s back for extra support. To do this, bring the top rail (edge) of the wrap high on baby’s back.Step 14: Bring the wrap straight across baby’s back with the bottom tucked up to form a knee-to-knee seat.
Step 15: Tighten strand by strand and bring the wrap under your arm.Step 16: Tie a double knot or slipknot here to finish OR . . .
. . . finish with a Candy Cane Chestbelt (CCCB) by twisting the two wrap ends together several times (see the next picture to see visually why it’s called a candy-cane chestbelt).Double Hammock Carry TAS with Candy-Cane Chestbelt (DHC TAS)
Step 1. Center the wrap on baby’s back and put baby and wrap on your back.
Step 2. Keeping the top rail tight under your chin or between your knees, reach behind and under your baby’s knees to pull all the excess wrap width down to the bottom and then up between you to baby’s knees.
Step 3. Keep the other end secure and bring one end over your shoulder.
Step 4. Gathering so that all the slack is out of the wrap, bring the other end under your arm.
Step 5. Bring that end across your chest and spread over your breasts to create the chest pass and pass the wrap under your opposite arm.
Step 6. Pass the wrap to your other hand behind your back and pull the top edge of the wrap up high on baby’s back.
Step 7. With the wrap spread across baby’s back, take one end in each hand to tighten and pull out any slack throughout the carry.
Step 8. The ‘L pull’ helps to get all slack out of the chest pass and both passes over baby.
Step 9. Put the wrap end coming over your shoulder down between your knees to hold it tight.
Step 10. Bring the other end of the wrap up over your shoulder.
Step 11. Tighten the wrap strand-by-strand as it comes over your shoulder.
Step 12. Put the wrap between your knees to hold it and go back to the first wrap end (the long end). Without losing tension, bring it straight down under your arm.
Step 13: Here you can do a bunched strap that goes behind both knees, but Phaedra is doing a reinforced Double Hammock with a horizontal pass spread across baby’s back for extra support. To do this, bring the top rail (edge) of the wrap high on baby’s back.
Step 14: Bring the wrap straight across baby’s back with the bottom tucked up to form a knee-to-knee seat.
Step 15: Tighten strand by strand and bring the wrap under your arm.
Step 16: Tie a double knot or slipknot here to finish OR . . .
. . . finish with a Candy Cane Chestbelt (CCCB) by twisting the two wrap ends together several times (see the next picture to see visually why it’s called a candy-cane chestbelt).
Double Hammock Carry TAS with Candy-Cane Chestbelt (DHC TAS)
More DHC Variations: Wendy’s Double Hammock Carry
Wendy’s Double Hammock Carry is a wiggle-proof carry that has the comfortable horizontal torso pass of a DHC but adds an even more secure seat for babies who tend to ‘pop the seat’ by straightening legs to make the passes slide up over their bottoms. With two passes going between the legs, babies cannot pop this seat!
Wrap Size: use your base -1 (size 5 for most moms) or one size smaller than you need for a full DHC.
More DHC Variations: Double Hammock Carry TUB
DHC TUB (tied under bottom) is similar to DHC TAS (tied at shoulder). It has the same horizontal chest pass, the same two rebozo (diagonal) passes over baby, but the two wrap ends come together in the back and knot is tied under baby’s bottom (whereas in the TAS version, one wrap end goes behind and comes around to the front to tie to short end at the shoulder). This video was made when our family was living in an RV and touring the country. The Grand Canyon seemed like the perfect backdrop for a quick tutorial since I needed to wrap baby up for a hike on the trail anyway! I like to think that our chattering daughters (age 2 and 7) provide charming background noise 😉
For those interested in Winter Wrapping, I had my son in his jacket and wrapped over him without a jacket on me. Afterwards I will put our Kindercoat (babywearing coat) over both of us.
Wrap Size: use your base -1 (size 5 for most moms) or one size smaller than you need for a full DHC.
