Ever had it where you tied your stretchy, put your baby in, started walking and realised baby is slowly migrating down your chest, sinking lower and lower? Let's be honest it's happened to all of us! And you know that its a sign that you've tied the wrap too loosely and that next time you should tie it tighter BUT that doesn't help you right now!! Because really taking the whole wrap off, putting baby down and re-tying would be a massive faff!
Here is how to tighten your wrap without taking baby out:
You'll notice the key thing is to support baby's weight while guiding the fabric under baby's leg. Simply pulling on the straps won't work, because the combination of baby's weight pulling against the elastic material and the friction at baby's legs will stop the fabric from being tightened... hence why you need actively lift baby and guide the fabric under their legs.
It is a faff! Although less of a faff than taking the whole wrap off and on again!! And of course the long term solution is to learn to get the tightness right at the start (you can see tips on how to do this is carry #1 here), but for those days when it has got loose... it is really useful to know how to fix it!
-Madeleine