I am pleased to report that thus far my repairs on the Batwing Safety Harness have been successful and the Tiny Human & I managed a walk to our local cafe without any escapes for freedom; to my surprise the Tiny Human even held my hand for some of our walk.
As discovered on Friday evening, one of the problem areas of the safety harness was that the Tiny Human could under the domes for the chest strap and take off the backpack, rendering the safety aspect of the harness useless.
I solved this issue quicker than it takes to make a cup of tea, by simply stitching next to the domes. The Tiny Human is still be able to undo the domes, but the stitching prevents him from being able to remove the pack.
As discovered on Friday evening, one of the problem areas of the safety harness was that the Tiny Human could under the domes for the chest strap and take off the backpack, rendering the safety aspect of the harness useless.
I solved this issue quicker than it takes to make a cup of tea, by simply stitching next to the domes. The Tiny Human is still be able to undo the domes, but the stitching prevents him from being able to remove the pack.
The scariest problem with the harness was that due to only being held by a single line of stitching the leash attachment tore from the backpack; I am thankful this didn't happen while out walking as lots of trucks use the road past our house.
I have hopefully stopped this from happening, by not only stitching the tag for the D-ring in two places but by also stitching around the area and joining the two sides of the backpack at this point together. Does that make sense?
So far this method looks like it is going to do the trick swimmingly and it seems to be preventing some of the pull that was being created by the D-ring only being attached to one layer of the pack.
I can't imagine how great it must feel for the Tiny Human to be able to walk places and to have a sense of freedom, rather than being strapped into a pushchair. As a parent it is of great relief to know that the Tiny Human is safe and isn't going to bolt onto the road or into harm's way.
Sure there will be plenty of comments to come from parents who never used a safety harness and from people who think they never will, but until you have an explorer of your own you can't understand the why and it will just look like I have a "pet human" (I got that comment on Friday night).
I have hopefully stopped this from happening, by not only stitching the tag for the D-ring in two places but by also stitching around the area and joining the two sides of the backpack at this point together. Does that make sense?
So far this method looks like it is going to do the trick swimmingly and it seems to be preventing some of the pull that was being created by the D-ring only being attached to one layer of the pack.
I can't imagine how great it must feel for the Tiny Human to be able to walk places and to have a sense of freedom, rather than being strapped into a pushchair. As a parent it is of great relief to know that the Tiny Human is safe and isn't going to bolt onto the road or into harm's way.
Sure there will be plenty of comments to come from parents who never used a safety harness and from people who think they never will, but until you have an explorer of your own you can't understand the why and it will just look like I have a "pet human" (I got that comment on Friday night).