Huggs® Award

• Abiie® products are consistently recognized by parent groups for their safety, comfort, and effectiveness.
• Our Huggs® hip belt carrier has just been selected as the baby product of the year for 2025.
• Discover what design features make this carrier a standout among all the other carrier options.

We’re thrilled to announce that The Abiie® Huggs® Hip Seat Carrier has been selected as the winner of the Baby Product of the Year award for the Independent Innovation Awards. With thousands of nominations submitted from across the globe, the competition this year was incredibly robust. As a winner, Abiie® now joins a standout group of innovators helping shape the future of the baby care industry. We’re so excited to stand alongside past and present winners, including giants in the baby gear industry, like Huggies, Owlet, Aveeno, Evereden, Kendamil, ergoPouch, smartrike, Zarbee’s, and many more.

Winning a Baby Innovation Award is a great reflection of our creativity, dedication, and impact on the industry. We’re excited to share with other innovators and with parents around the world the reasons why our baby carrier is such a unique product. Learn more about our goals when developing the Huggs® baby hip carrier and discover how it can transform your life today.

Innovation That Balances Parent Needs With Baby Comfort

One of our goals at Abiie® has always been to ensure comfort and safety for both babies and parents. Many products prioritize one over the other, resulting in subpar products that always fail parents in one way or another. With the Huggs® infant hip seat, we took a look at the top needs of parents and combined them with doctor recommendations for babies to deliver a one-of-a-kind design that puts ergonomics, comfort, and longevity first.

Supporting Baby

Doctors, parents, and other experts have identified a number of important factors in baby development, namely:

• The need for close contact to develop a strong bond with a parent
• A physically optimized position that ensures babies can still move freely
• Safety features that protect babies without constricting movements
• Positioning that ensures comfort whether they’re awake or asleep

Some of the ways our hip carrier delivers on these needs include:

• Uninterrupted Sleep Design: A velcro-free creation that keeps noise to a minimum as you adjust the baby in the carrier. You can move your baby from the crib to their carrier silently and seamlessly.

• Cozy Sleeping Hood: The full baby carrier comes with a hood that supports your baby’s head as they sleep, so their neck and shoulders are always in a safe position. The hood also protects your baby from the sun, wind, rain, and other elements.

• Breathable Panels: A center panel in the carrier folds down to expose a secondary mesh layer that ensures a strong support structure, while allowing more airflow throughout the carrier.

• Structured Positioning: Specifically designed to prevent the development of infant hip dysplasia, our hip belt carrier positions your baby’s legs in an “M” shape. This is the best position for free movement, comfort, and support.

Because our carrier is so comfortable for babies and parents, it encourages parents to carry their children more frequently, resulting in additional bonding time.

Listening to Parents

We’ve also listened to what parents need from their carriers to ensure we create a product that they actually want to use. Putting on our infant carrier is a delight, not a chore. Some of the features you can expect that put parents first include:

• Five Carrying Positions: Whether you need to adjust your carry position for each parent or you’re adjusting to accommodate different activities, our baby carrier offers inward-facing front carry, outward-facing front carry, back carry, crisscross carry, and hip belt carry.

• Adjustable Straps: In addition to changing the length of the shoulder and hip belt straps, our carrier also offers a criss-cross position that makes it the ideal choice for more petite parents. Crossed straps also help distribute your baby’s weight across the carrier in a more even and efficient way.

• Balanced Weight Distribution: Our hip belt offers an incredibly thick structure that functions as a tertiary support for your baby’s weight. You don’t need to suffer with thin straps that dig into your shoulders and waist. The thicker, padded design is more functional and comfortable.

• More Storage: Parents always need more space for diapers, snacks, silicone baby bibs, wipes, and much more. With multiple storage pockets in the base of the hip belt, you can squeeze in a few more eco-friendly baby products that just don’t fit in your regular baby bag. You can even use these pockets for your phone, keys, and wallet.

• Portable Nursing Pillow: If you’re still breastfeeding, an extra supportive pillow is essential for your baby’s comfort. Our hip carrier also functions as a nursing pillow, eliminating the need to bring another tool whenever you leave the house. Lighten your load with our infant hip belt.

There are many more ways that our hip carrier can enhance your everyday life and make carrying your baby easier. Discover them for yourself when you check out reviews about our products or try the carrier out for yourself.

Why Identifying Innovation Is Important

With so many baby products on the market, it can be tough to identify the ones that actually have thoughtful designs, effective solutions, and innovative features. That’s why organizations like the Baby Innovation Awards are so important. They offer an independent way to filter and recognize the products that actually help parents and babies thrive.

We’re so excited for this recognition because we care deeply about the health and happiness of families around the world. Since our inception, the Abiie® team has always focused on developing practical products that offer style, sustainability, and functionality. This award validates our hard work once again.

Other Awards

While our team is ecstatic to be recognized for our hip carrier, the truth is, this isn’t our first award-winning product. Abiie® was also recognized for our Beyond Junior® wooden high chair. This unique baby product was designed to usher your child from infancy through adulthood with adjustable features that allow you to transition from a high chair to a regular chair over the years. We were awarded the National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Award in 2015 for our design, and we’re proud to continue innovating with newer and better products all these years later.

Support Our Mission for Better Baby Products

We believe in minimalism and sustainability, so we build our products to last. You can expect everything in our inventory to perform for decades, so you can pass down essentials like high chairs and baby plate sets from child to child. When you support our mission, you’re working toward better products for your home and safer solutions for your children. 

Shop with us to live better.