Great Way to Choose Baby Swaddle Pattern | Little West Street

The challenge of learning a child is that each one is so different. Tips that work for one baby may not work for the next. So when you get advice on a difficulty you may be having, you of course want to run home and try it out, but often you wind up frustrated when what worked for Jane's baby doesn't work for yours. Consequently, any time I hear about the magic solution for getting a baby to sleep, I am doubtful.

This is true for advice or baby tools, but specifically I'm talking about the swaddle. It has seen a recent comeback in the last few years thanks to many popular baby sleep products like. With all these big names behind it, it seems like it must be the key to infant sleep.

The only thing you need is a large Swaddles a baby, and the secret knowledge of the scheme for cover the blanket. But thanks to the internet and YouTube, many of those systems seem to be common information these days. So there's no excuse not to know how to swaddle.

Nice, But Not the Sole Solution

Alone, a swaddle is like a shovel without a handle -- it's provides an defective solution. Unless you combine it with other elements and use it properly it may be a difficulty rather than a help to your baby sleeping happily. I speak from personal experience and weeks of thinking why the amazing change wasn't taking place in my baby's sleep habits.

Where Do We Go Wrong?

With just about every Baby Swaddle on the market, our daughter was a Houdini. No matter how tightly we wrapped her up, she would twist and twist her body until she had at least an arm free, at which point she was wide wakeful and ready to party. The strained alone often kept her from ever trying to get to sleep and she would end up upset and crying because she couldn't move her arms. Even with other devices of calming as touted in many popular books, if the swaddle was on -- she wasn't happy. I gave up and threw the blanket into the corner and wrote it off as a failure.

How To Get It To Work

First of all, I don't want to tout specific products, but we have had good luck with the sack style sleeper that mixes a swaddle in the small sizes. It worked primarily for us because rather than fighting the Muslin Swaddle while conscious, you can allow your little one to fall without feeling in the sack part and then lay the swaddle into the crib face up. Then just place the sleeping baby onto the swaddle panel, wrap it around and join up the Velcro as instructed on the package. This will then prevent those automatic power actions related with night-time waking.

Other Tools to Add

The key with swaddling also has been to integrate it with white noise. White noise has been popular because it imagines the loud rushing sound of the mother's womb. Our goal is to recreate that noisy setting to comfort the little one recently expelled from the womb who may look to this noise for comfort. It is said that louder is better, up to a point. Let trial and error, as well as common sense, is your guide when turning up the volume.