ergo question

[Fi]

I love the black and green
I have the burgandy one which is great. jenna loves being in it, we go for walks with Hamihs in the pram and her in the ergo, and its cool. Then if they get bored, I swap them, but Hamish is still on the front since he is so little.

[Smoke Jaguar]

I was initially concerned with the contraindication of only chest to chest with the Ergo when I first looked into it, but I do subscribe to their reasoning as to why.
The big thing that they cite is overstimulation. With the Ergo, they can still see out to the side, from front and back, and if you're talking to someone they can be in on the conversation. However, if baby is forward facing, baby has no control over when they can block all of that out and just tuck in to take a breather from it, they are in that forward facing position taking in all that stimulation whether they want it or not.
Now, I have the quintessential 'go fast' baby who walked and ran early, but in my Ergo he knows in himself when he's had enough and will just tune in to the world at his own pace...and tune out at will.
Aside from the ergonomic benefits of the chest to chest carry, I really like that Oscar can tune out when he wants, and I long ago got over the whole 'but he won't see the world'.
Trust me, just by being carried, our babies are experiencing the world from a better angle than a full-time pram-pushed baby. They are close to conversational convention (turn-taking, listening etc), and their vestibular senses are far better stimulated - motion sideways, forwards, backwards, up and down and all the ways that a mechanised bouncer will never provide for a baby or child. That's why when carried babies start to walk, they do it more confidently than 'static' babies, in general, because they already have a great sense of balance, inertia and core stability
Anyway, preaching to the converted here!
So, just to let you know from experience (and I've used a HAB for the first 6 months, a shoulder sling periodically and mostly the Ergo now, having done so for over 8 months), that not being able to face forward is not a biggie in the end, and that's coming from a baby who LOVES to engage with his environment Best investment I made apart from the HypnoBirthing classes!