Best weighted blanket for autism

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Any recommendations?

DD has the Kuddly. I actually have it as well and it's heavy but not too much, I think it's 10% of your body weight as a max, I would say mine is 5% of my weight.

I can kick it off when it's getting too warm and I don't use it in Summer, neither is DD but I often see her also in the afternoon reading in bed and having the blanket across her legs to center her.

https://www.kudd.ly/shop/weighted-blanket/?nbt=nb%3Aadwords%3Ag%3A20656063105%3A160255120211%3A676972232803&nb_adtype=&nb_kwd=kuddly%20weighted%20blanket&nb_ti=kwd-849503853267&nb_mi=&nb_pc=&nb_pi=&nb_ppi=&nb_placement=&nb_li_ms=&nb_lp_ms=&nb_fii=&nb_ap=&nb_mt=e&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAjrarBhAWEiwA2qWdCFmGHoAQNqmqVlKD5cMOkZW7qxb6NY6gk6696fPq3WoM4qD69rKUtRoC1xkQAvD_BwE

Ours are just cheapo ones from amazon. As long as you check the weight recommendations they are fine

I've just ordered a hugge lap blanket from Amazon for DS. It hasn't arrived yet so can't comment on the quality but here's hoping!

I am also happy with my cheapo one from amazon.

Ikea do their own one, so I went in there and tested out the different weights. I know about the 10% of body weight recommendation, but I wanted to test this too because there can be quite a difference between e.g. 8%, 10% and 12% of own body weight.

Bear in mind that you can't machine wash a weighted blanket as they would damage the washing machine, I use mine over my duvet so that it does not directly touch me for this reason. Because I was planning to do this I added the weight of my duvet to the weight of the blanket when I was working out which one to get.

You can also get some which have a cover that comes off to wash. If you get one with a cover, it needs to have some way to keep the cover attached to the blanket so that it doesn't slide around inside.

There was a BBC radio programme about weighted blankets a few weeks ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r7vs