Comfort Cotton

After making sure your baby is dry and not hungry, here are some other ways to comfort a crying baby:

* Swaddling - most infants enjoy this secure feeling. But don’t swaddle too tightly, or there may be more tears.
* Rocking - hold them, rock them and walk with them. It is often found that walking around and around your home works well.  You get a workout, too.
* A pacifier - sucking is very important toinfant and comforts them.  Some babies may need to suck more frequently than others.

Sometimes, you might want to cry right along with your baby when it seems the tears are endless. Realizing that crying is normal will help the time to pass. A crying child does not mean you are a bad parent. Just reading this blog shows that you are a caring one.

When planning to buy a gift for a newborn baby, blankets will be a good option.  They are an essential item for baby’s comfort and warmth.  Any parent would love to receive a special blanket as a gift at a baby shower.  Wrapped in a blanket, baby is much easier to handle and carry.

There is a huge variety of styles and fabrics to choose from.  Some are made of sherpa (a type of fleece), some are stretchy and some are bigger than others.  There is a single fabric organic receiving blanket and ones that have double fabric.  They all do the job they’re designed for, snuggling baby in a little cacoon for safety, comfort and warmth.

Everyone, from young to old, likes to feel the comfort, security and warmth of a blanket and this is the same for a baby. There are many types of blankets for babies like receiving blankets, crib blankets and personalized blankets. When looking for a baby shower gift a lot of people overlook this simple, yet great, gift.

Baby blankets are a great gift for a new child because they now come in different shapes, sizes, colors, fabrics, and styles and they can be personalized. Receiving or swaddle blankets are fantastic for new parents. They wrap their little one up and place them on their back in their crib and both the parents and child will get a good nights sleep. The swaddle blanket reminds the baby of being safe and secure in the womb.

Swaddling babies makes them easier to transport and to hold. In some Middle Eastern and Balkan countries, swaddling is traditional and goes back in time forever. The United States hospitals use the swaddling technique for newborns as well. It would be wise to get using and organic swaddling blanket for your newborn for its first few months.

The biggest benefit of swaddling is that it lowers the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Babies that are swaddled are less likely to turn over and get in a position that can harm them. The possiblity of suffocation is very much lessed as baby cannot roll over and plant it’s fact in the mattress.  Nor will it be able to get the sheets wrapped around the face. It discourages the baby from jerking around and waking up from sudden movements. Babies should be swaddled up to four months and it’s usually around the three-month range when the SIDS risk is at its highest.

Following some simple steps can help you become a swaddling expert in no time.

Spread an organic swaddling blanket on a flat surface and fold down a corner a few inches. Place the baby diagonally on their back so that their head rests just above the fold. Pull one corner of the blanket across their body to tuck in under their back. Hold the other corner and wrap your baby snugly, while tucking in the rest of the blanket. Finally, pull the lower corner up to tuck under baby’s chin to complete a secure swaddle.

Be sure not to leave any folds or lumps on the underside that may cause discomfort to baby. If your baby is more comfortable with their hands free, wrap below the arms so they retain some movement.

The technique of swaddling is time-tested and well established for comforting and soothing babies. While parents like the idea of swaddling, they sometimes have difficulty learning the proper way and correctly making the wraps to keep the child swaddled.  Sometimes, they find baby getting overheated if the blanket material is too heavy.

An organic  swaddling blanket is best and tends to be square or rectangular and oversized which allows for wrapping the baby multiple times, neatly tucking in the fabric to make a cacoon.  The child should still have room to wriggle a little and not feel trapped.

Apart from swaddling them in a swaddling blanket, something else that will calm infants is sucking.  This not only fulfills a functional nutritional need but also satisfies the need to feel comfortable and safe.   Try giving your fussy baby a pacifier and let them suck on it when you are not feeding them.

Often times  infants cannot hold the pacifier in their mouths and will push it out. This is due to the tongue thrust that is needed at this age for feeding.  So, if your baby spits the pacifier out it may not necessarily mean they don’t want it. Put it right back in for them! Sucking is very calming for many infants and very much essential for the development of their jaws.

Do you remember how the nurses wrapped your newborn in those first few days after they were born? They were perfoming the ancient custom of ” Swaddling”.  This is the act of tightly wrapping your infant in a blanket.

Since baby has just come out of a very warm, snuggly place, this is a familiar feeling for your newborn.  It is also going to help with sleeping problems.

The baby arrives into the world with  its limbs all  loose and stretched out.  They have little  control over them and no concept of where their body ends and where the world begins.  All the bright lights and loud sounds are very new and startling.  Being wrapped in an organic cotton baby blanket is very  comforting and warm.  Baby can relax and sleep the way it should.