Twin Carrier - TwinGo, Original (SSC95) Due 18/04/2024

Overview

There are lots of ways to carry more than one baby - to see lots of options for carrying twins, check out Carrying Matters' great page on carrying multiples, which outlines lots of options!

The TwinGo is specifically designed with twins in mind. It's really two carriers, which can be used by two people to carry one twin each.  But it's really clever feature is that it's possible to clip the waistbands together so that one person can carry both twins - one on the front and one on the back.  It's made with clear colour coding (blue inner/orange inner) on each carrier so you know which one needs to go on your back (the blue one!) and each carrier fully zippers away when you're done into a neat storage pouch which is part of the carrier panel. Neat!

Note that TwinGo recommends that the minimum age for use is 4 months (corrected). We'd suggest that that really depends on the size of your babies.  The TwinGo is great, but the panels that support each baby are of a fixed width and height, so in our experience it's possible for them to be 'too high' (so they come above the nape of a baby's neck, and thus compromise airway/airflow) or 'too wide' (so that baby needs their knees to be spread wider than is comfortable to get around the panel). It might be, particularly with smaller babies, that 5-6 months is a better expectation for when this carrier really starts to work well.  On the plus side, these carriers are great for carrying into toddlerhood, which means they're also an option for two children relatively close in age too. Heaviest baby always goes on your back.

When back carrying, you need to use a mirror/another person/your phone in selfie mode to maintain a baby's safety.  Particularly, ensure that there's to compromise to airway/airflow (e.g. caused by a baby falling asleep and slumping down into the carrier - always make sure that the back panel is truly supportive).

TwinGos are sold with a variety of extras, but this is just the two carriers, safety belt and sleep hoods.  The 'infant inserts' which allow you to use the TwinGo with smaller babies are FIDDLY and in our opinion there are easier options for twin wearing if your babies are too small for this carrier ;)

Details

Material: 100% cotton

Manufacture: Made in China, 2017

Child weight range (single carry): 4.6kg - 20kg

Child weight range (tandem carry): 4.6kg - 15.8kg (combined weight maximum 31.8kg)

Wearer size: Fits most, with a variety of ways to wear the waistband when tandem carrying, depending on your size. We think about 4'11 - 6'5 works in terms of wearer height.

Instructions

See the full set of instructions from TwinGo, including how to single carry on your front, single carry on your back, and store the carriers in their integral pouches.

TwinGo Carrier || Dual Carry Instruction from TwinGo Carrier on Vimeo.