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I used the Lille pretty early on. By eight weeks for sure. Up to three months, Lillebaby recommends the "fetal position," which is the wide seat setting, with baby facing in, legs in "frog-legged" position (so legs in). This is what we did, with a rolled up blanket in the bottom.

ETA: I think you could do legs out in the narrow position, but when F was really small, the rolled up blanket, legs in seemed more comfortable to me.

At 6-7 weeks I carried E in the narrow setting legs out. I didn't want to have to worry about a rolled blanket. Before that we used a wrap so I have no experience with babies any younger.

I am using the narrow seat legs out for my 6 week old for the last two weeks. She is big though, close to 13 pounds and 23”. I did the frog position a few times but mostly used a ring sling in the early weeks.

Now I have done no research but the ring sling the recommendation was legs out in the frog, taking pressure off hips. When I was working on the fit with my local store someone said how about legs in and the expert said the recommendation is now legs out. Not sure if that is true for more structured carriers too. The guidance on this stuff is always changing and can be personal preference as well as depending on what you read.