Product Spotlight: Blankets

miss_lynn9 · November 2022

Each week we'll spotlight a new category of product. Feel free to comment on threads like these throughout your time at the board, not just when they're in their week in the spotlight, if you discover something new OR are new to the board. This week it's.... Blankets, sleep sacks and swaddles!

FTMs are encouraged to ask questions & STM/+s encouraged to share their knowledge based on experience. You can use any or all the prompts relevant to you below to share info in an easy-to-read format. Pictures/screen grabs, if put in spoilers, are welcome!

AAP guidelines say nothing in the crib (including blankets and stuffed animals) until 1 year of age.

1. What did you use swaddle baby (if baby liked to be swaddled)?

2. Did you have a favorite blanket for tummy time or tucked into the car seat for cold weather?

3. What did you use to keep baby warm at night?

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miss_lynn9 · November 2022

In the beginning, I had Aden and Anais swaddle blankets but she would wiggle out of them, and they would get loose. Which gave me so much anxiety so I quickly switched to the halo velcro swaddle and I will be using those immediately this time.

Once she started rolling over, I switch to the woolino 4-season sleep sack. I LOVE them, and highly recommend them if you want to go the sleep sack route.

In her car seat, I used a cover (not in the car), and covered her with a blanket my grandma gave her.

Wishilivedinflorida · November 2022

I also used Halo Velcro swaddles and transitioned to sleep sacks until around age 2. I gave a small blanket for comfort around age 1 but they can’t keep them on.

Other swaddle products we liked were newborn Swaddle Me pods for the itty bitty stage and woombie zip swaddles. Sometimes the zipper was more effective and my kids wanted swaddled forever.

For the car seat we used any random blanket when it was cold or used a breathable muslin blanket as a cover. This time around I ordered the Keyfit Zip car seat so it has a safe cover. The muslin blankets were nice for laying the baby down on random floors for play. I also have a thicker knit blanket specifically for floor play that all my kids have used.

marebear15 · November 2022

I tried three different swaddles with my 1st before I found my favorite. The Wombie was good for the first 2 weeks, and then she would get an arm out. Then we tried a velcro type swaddle, but diaper changes were so loud. I ended up liking the Love to Dream arms up swaddle. They zip from the bottom, making diaper changes a breeze at night.
I used Target's Cloud Island muslin swaddles for day time sleep and to nurse and all that jazz. My 17mo still sleeps with these.
Any small fuzzy blanket works in the car for the cold weather. Just tuck and run.

miss_lynn9 · November 2022

This blanket talk made me look at the woolino website. There's a print I really wanted for my daughter but never went for because they are pricey and we knew we wanted two kids so I went with gender neutral. But I needed a blanket for this baby and it happened to be on sale and in stock so I bought it! First thing I've bought for this baby!

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/z2/7lo9ykvi7x9w.png

noxacanthus · November 2022

This is like a flame-free Friday confession type post.

My daughter was a swaddle escape artist. Between that and the fact that hubby was weirdly anti-swaddle, we never used any sort of traditional swaddles. Instead, we had the bear suit. I kid you not. We used it like a swaddle (didn't put her arms in the sleeves), but because it wasn't one, hubby was okay with it. She slept in her bear suit until she was old enough for the magic merlin sleep suits and was close to rolling and I started to get seriously concerned about her suffocating on the hood.

This is in no way shape or form a safe sleep practice, I am not recommending it, and swaddling is one of the deep, really serious discussions hubby & I have had since finding out we are pregnant with #2. But it was kind of adorable.

excitedforpiscesbaby · November 2022

How many swaddles do y’all recommend? My shower is in two weeks and so far people have bought us a 3 pack of the cloud island flannel swaddles, 1 halo sleep sack, and 1 embe swaddle. We also have a 3 pack of SwaddleMe wraps on the registry still. It’s all 0-3 months. Should we register for more or add other brands?

heytallmama · November 2022

OMG that bear suit is too cute 😂

We wound up swaddling a lot with the Velcro SwaddleMe brand and as she desired her hands out, eventually the Halo sleep sacks - both of those for night. For daytime sleep/ snuggles, we used muslin or jersey blankets.

We have…a lot of the blankets for baby 2 because I went *hard* on buying them. We probably have 10. We also have close to 10 swaddles because friends kept giving them to us. With our daughter I think we had 6 jersey blankets and 2 swaddles. The number you need is really dependent on how quickly they get soiled and how often you do laundry, imho.

mamahosch · November 2022

I absolutely loved the Halo swaddles and the SwaddleMe ones as well. I also bought an Ollie but they’re pricey! We eventually transitioned to the love to dream swaddle because my son loved be arms out and this kept his arms up but also warm. They have a transition one we used too.

firecracker_mama · November 2022

Love to dream swaddle up was one of our favs!

missmuisq · December 2022

I'm late to this thread but hoping some of you will still see this.

So, I have a pretty unique brand of baby blankets to recommend - the small baby blanket 501(c)(3) charity that my parents founded a few years ago, Sheep Dreamzzz.

It's a long story, but my parents moved to Nicaragua a few years ago and started a small farm. When their first grandchild came along, my mom knitted a baby blanket and then decided to train any interested women in their town to knit blankets as well (she had to modify the original design to avoid copyright issues). My parents sell them in the US, mostly through their website, and all profit goes back to the women. My parents don't receive any income from the sales. Each blanket sold feeds these women's families for approximately one week.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western hemisphere after Haiti and has extremely limited economic opportunities, so the income from the blankets makes a huge difference for these women's families. I've visited and seen them in action a few times! They're very hardworking and implement a strict quality control process.

As for the blankets themselves ... they come in tons of gorgeous colors and in cotton blends, (non-itchy) wool blends, organic, more lightweight blankets, warmer options, and more. They're all machine washable, very breathable, and extremely soft and squishable (I've seen and squished many of my nieces' and nephews' blankets after years of use and abuse). As soon as a I pick a color, my mom will be knitting one for our baby on the way!

They also have smaller "loveys," which come with a soft minky back and satin border, as well as gift sets with a few cute sheep-themed add-ons. The packaging is also really nice. They can also do custom orders! (like larger sizes, sheepless blankets, changing the color of the sheep bodies/heads and tails, embroidering a name on a satin border, etc.)

If you're interested at all, just take a look at the pictures and reviews on their website and feel free to contact me or them if you have any questions: https://sheepdreamzzz.org/

Also, something fun that happened recently was that a sharp-eyed customer noticed one of their blankets on the Netflix show Buying Beverly Hills. You can see it in this video (I think the blanket is upside down, showing the "fuzzier" side.): https://youtu.be/wrnHyShWueE

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