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How to Swaddle a Baby: Baby Tip by Babble Soft
Jul 23 2007

babytipteetherLearning how to properly swaddle a baby can make life much easier in those first several weeks after your baby is born.  When we were in the hospital, the nurses could practically swaddle a baby in their sleep.  If the baby wasn’t hungry they would almost instantly calm down after they were swaddled.  It took us a few weeks to master the technique because our kids always seemed to wriggle out of their swaddles but after a while we were pros.  You’d think we would remember the fine art of swaddling after having our first but with 2 1/2 years between them we had to re-learn the technique.  After a few months, they would break loose because they did not want to be swaddled anymore.  Parents.com has some nice illustrations on how to swaddle your baby using The Quick Wrap or The Burrito Roll style.  If you are looking for some great blankets to swaddle your baby in, check out Mr. Bobbles’ Blankets!  From now until the end of July you will get a coupon code for 10% off of purchases at Mr Bobbles’ Blankets with any purchase of a Baby Manager subscription!

Our daughter with a professional nurse swaddle a day or so after she was born:
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 Our daughter in her co-sleeper at home with a not-so-professional swaddle.�
We called her the one armed sleeping bandit. 🙂
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Note to new readers: these tips are based on our experiences, as well as those of our friends and readers.  Please always consult with your doctor before implementing any tip that might impact the health of your baby.  If you have a tip you’d like to submit please send an email to babblesoft blogger for possible inclusion.  Please check the ‘baby tips’ category to make sure your tip (in some form or fashion) hasn’t already been posted.  If it has been, feel free to comment on that post and support the tip.  We also welcome respectful challenges to the tips because as is noted in our inaugural baby tip ‘everything is relative!’  We will, of course, give anyone who submits a tip we publish credit and a link back to their site!

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3 Comments on “How to Swaddle a Baby: Baby Tip by Babble Soft”

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  3. 3 Dixie said at 6:49 PM on May 28th, 2008:

    Hi there – have you heard of Halo sleepsacks? they have a “foolproof” swaddler you can’t mess up and then sleepsacks that go all the way to big kid sizes with feet holes. We had the WORST time swaddling our little one and these saved our lives! now she ASKS for her “night night” Halo sleepsack at night! you can see more about what they have at Halosleep.com – i think they are the BEST!