Joining in the round and casting on stitches

I’ve made a pattern for a baby romper knitted with straight needles, I’m trying to amend it for circular. The back and front if the crotch is still knitted separately for the leg holes. It has a ribbing edging with around the leg holes which has been increased, however normally I then cast on an extra 7 either end (both pieces) then rib for a few more rows before doing solely stst for the main body. My confusion is where I would join in the round is where I would be casting on at either end and I’m stumped at how to do this… I understand I could do these separately and then join a couple rows in when stitches already on but wanted to try do it all on the circular. Thanks in advance!

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Can you increase evenly across the ribbing rather than put all the increases at either end? Instead of increasing mid-rib is it possible to increase at the changeover from rib to stockinette?

Thank you! I’ve hopefully attached a photo which might make more sense, I increase from the base of the crotch at the edge of the ribbing consistently till the top of the legs but here’s where I cast on 7 either side so the ribbing wraps around the legs, I guess I could do the increasing throughout the ribbing but I had just preferred the look of it like this. Hope this makes sense difficult to explain!

Have you tried knitting flat up to the point of the blue arrows below, then casting on stitches and starting to knit in the round? You would knit front and back as two pieces then join with the cast on sts between. It’s like knitting the earflaps on a hat, then joining to work the body of the hat in the round.

It would be similar to this construction.

That’s exactly where I did want to join in the round but I couldn’t get my head around how to do it but that pattern example has made perfect sense thank you so much!

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