Swaddling

[feralgirl]

Hi all,
I have three friends who all will be giving birth in the Autumn. The one thing that I WISH someone had told me about when DS was new was swaddling; I eventually bought a grobag swaddle blanket and it saved our lives I think.

But are there any better ones? Despite the name, I quite like the look of the woombie and the summer infant swaddle pod looks good too. Or is a wraparound blanket better because you can use it for a half-swaddle when they're bigger? What do you all reckon?!

Not tried either of the above but the Miracle blanket (think you can get it from Mothercare) is brilliant - very hard to escape from. I never got on with our grobag swaddle blanket and DS always escaped straight away and woke himself up.

The Miracle blanket is less easy to half swaddle with than a straight blanket would be, but I am using it at the moment to swaddle DS (5 months) with one arm out, so it is possible.

Thanks Angelgog, will check it our.

Doh. Angeldog, obviously!

No probs, feral. Just popping back to say that I'm finding that swaddling DS in the Miracle blanket with one arm out is not the best as the fabric sometimes rucks up around his neck. I know other people have done it successfully, though, so it might just be my technique.

I'd still buy the Miracle blanket again, though - if I wanted to wean him off it gradually I'd just switch to swaddling him with a cot sheet or blanket so I could adjust the arms.

However, I've just gone cold turkey & put him in a sleeping bag after having tried with one arm out. I just seem to have to feed him back to sleep more often at night, but he is cutting his first tooth, so it may be more to do with that than the swaddle.

i used a swaddle me wrap for my lo, tk,maxx has them for £4.99 just now,i got mine from ebay but was much the same price.before that we used a blanket,but he sometimes escaped!

we used a miracle blanket and loved it for little baby, but got dangerous as he started escaping and found it up aruond his head a couple of times. then we got a peke moe sleeper which worked awesome!

My DP is the king of swaddling, I always found it too claustophobic an idea to do it really tightly but he was relentless with it - worked a treat with both ds's until they went into gro bags at about 4m. DS2 in particular was a nightmare at sleeping initially, bashing himself in the face etc and he wriggled like crazy. We used the gro bag one and the summer infant shape ones but by far the best swaddling thing we had, for some reason, was this stretchy woven blanket from jo jo maman bebe www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detailfash.php?type=FASH&code=A2803&proddesc=Knitted+Baby+Blankets&supercate gory=BRN00043&branch=&wcategory=CAT00328&catdesc=&super=0040BRN00043~0010BRN00060~0040CAT00328&treec ode=TRE00009 - don't know why but it was the only one that houdini ds2 could never get his arms out of yet it still seemed comfy and not too tight. For ds3, when he arrives, I don't think we will bother with any of the others and just get another one of these.