My goodness I suck at swaddling

greenclown

He's barely even moved and he already broke out of the thing. Thank goodness for the swaddle things that rely on velcro.

Emie28

I couldn't swaddle to save my life. Thank goodness for the miracle blanket.

Excitedtostart

Do you have any Aiden & Anais blankets? They are awesome for swaddling - they're huge, so you can wrap and wrap until they're secure. I think I've given these to everyone I know who has a baby. 

MrsVonKikabee

Excitedtostart:

Do you have any Aiden & Anais blankets? They are awesome for swaddling - they're huge, so you can wrap and wrap until they're secure. I think I've given these to everyone I know who has a baby. 

This. I could burrito her up tight with the A & A blankets. Now we double wrap in an A & A plus a swaddleme. She hasn't busted out of the combo wrap yet.

ValentineBB

Excitedtostart:

Do you have any Aiden & Anais blankets? They are awesome for swaddling - they're huge, so you can wrap and wrap until they're secure. I think I've given these to everyone I know who has a baby. 

These are great blankets, but they still were no match for Sadie.  She can break out of the SwaddleMe and the Miracle Blanket so the A&A's were child's play for her.  Now they function as lovely, expensive burp cloths, LOL.

Excitedtostart

They also make awesome capes when they're older. My friend has older kids and those blankets are still used all the time - comfort, sleeping, blankets and heavily used for play. You can be a gypsy, a prince or princess, you can tie up your younger brother...

Lambie.

The woombie is the only thing Lila couldn't get out of.  Well that and the escape proof swaddle but then she would sweat like a roast pig so that didn't really work out either.

greenclown

It was an A+A one that he broke out of. Awesome.

Excitedtostart

This just means that TLF is super awesome and strong, and may be the next Ultimate Fighting Champion. 

MrsVonKikabee

greenclown:

It was an A+A one that he broke out of. Awesome.

My first swaddles with the A+A she broke out of. It was only when I wrapped her very tightly that it worked.

robinsokj

We gave up and used swaddlemes. 

stephsteph77

Emie28:

I couldn't swaddle to save my life. Thank goodness for the miracle blanket.

Best.  Blanket.  Ever.  DD could bust out of any swaddle, but it took her a good 3-4 months before she figured out how to bust out of the Miracle Blanket.  That is my go to shower/new baby gift.

hippotree

Both of my boys pretty much laughed at me if I used anything other than a Miracle Blanket.  Even those ended up being no match for them.

cookie_queen

Excitedtostart:

This just means that TLF is super awesome and strong, and may be the next Ultimate Fighting Champion. 

I like this theory! 

andrew's wifey

Our nurses had a fancy way to wrap Cam that we didn't know about until we were in the hospital.  They'd fold the blanket down into a trianangle like normal, but then they'd fold the top down about 3 inches before putting her down onto it.  then they tucked her hands under that little fold as they wrapped her.  It worked pretty great for a couple weeks, and then we started using the swaddlemes because we never had any A+A blankets. 

smitt2619

Me too!  We used Halo Sleepsack Swaddles, which made swaddling super quick and easy, plus safer too.  Love um!

CinnamonBun

The Halo Sleepsack Swaddles and the Woombie/swaddle pod were awesome. The swaddle pod worked perfect when Baby Bun was new. The fleece swaddle sacks from Halo were my favorite. 

RachelG83

hippotree:

Both of my boys pretty much laughed at me if I used anything other than a Miracle Blanket.  Even those ended up being no match for them.

LOL!

Evan hasn't gotten his arms out of the miracle blanket yet but he's ended up with feet out.  One time he got a sock off and out of the blanket but his feet were still inside.  No clue how he pulled that off.