(A day late and a dollar short, sorry.)
It's clear to me that Mother Nature made a grave error: babies should not be born with arms.
They can't control them. They're allllllll over the place. My baby is 2 months old today, and still punches me in the face (inadvertently . . . I hope) on a daily basis.
Arms clearly should grow in later.
This is never more obvious than at night, when your sweetly sleeping (ha!) angel suddenly flails his arms and whaps himself in the face.
That's a pretty crappy wake up call.
And if you don't do something about, he's going to keep whapping himself in the face, on and off, throughout the entire night.
That means a terrible night's sleep for you, and a pretty crappy one for him too.
Enter, the swaddle.
Just wrap your baby up like a burrito, pinning his flailing arms at his sides, and he'll sleep soundly.
If you've ever tried to swaddle your baby with a blanket yourself, you know how tricky it is. Like putting an octopus in a pullover. And even if you manage to get baby wrapped up snugly, he still finds a way to wiggle a hand out and scratch himself awake.
These things are the answer:
Have you ever seen a baby look more like a burrito? These things have velcro all over the place to make swaddling easy and permanent. Well, at least until you're ready to release the Kraken. My baby is napping in one as we speak--he's wiggling and squirming all over the place, but his arms are trapped and he's yet to smack himself awake. Thank God.
Go buy a few of these right away. They say arm control doesn't develop until 3-4 months. That's a lot of lost sleep.
Note: I have not been compensated in any way for this review. I
have not been given a free product, as lovely as that would be. In the
future, should you want to offer me things for free to review, go for
it. For now, anything I review was paid for out of my own pocket, and I
offer the review out of the goodness of my heart.
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