Healthily growing your infants needs various processes in it. The most important factor to be considered for the healthy growth of babies is proper sleep. All babies need proper sleep to stay active for a longer time. Protecting and wrapping your baby will help them get a good sound sleep for a longer duration with no disturbance. All the babies have the habit of shaking their arms and legs when they sleep and sometimes this may lead them to get hurt or distract during sleep. To avoid distraction or disturbance at the time of sleep, parents use the common technique called swaddle. Swaddling is the method of protecting your baby completely against the natural startle reflex.

Benefits Of Swaddling

• This process makes the baby feel comfortable and safe like staying inside the womb of a mother. Usually, the nurses use to wrap the babies in hospitals at the time of their birth. You can also follow this procedure at home by swaddling using the blanket or swaddling clothes. You can learn the technique of swaddling from the nurse and must carefully cover the babies without hurting them.

• Most newborn babies will have the habit of making sounds and cry. But this simple method works like absolute magic by making the cranky babies calm and normal. This swaddling method act as an important part of handling the babies from older times. In earlier days, they followed some other methods of swaddling and wrapping the infants but now they use advanced methods of handling.
• This technique helps make the babies sleep better with no disturbance or fear. It is also helpful for newborn babies addicted to drugs and also for babies facing neurological problems or colic. It also helps in preventing SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome. Some infants will face trouble in sleeping on their backs and during this difficult time, they can use this technique.
• Most babies will get scratched by moving or shaking their hands during sleep and you can prevent this by using the method of swaddling. During this procedure, they tightly cover the hands and legs of the babies up using the blanket and they cannot move them during sleeping time.
• You must first spread your swaddling blanket on the bed or flat surface and you must arrange them in the shape of a diamond with the bottom layer pointing towards you. Then, you must fold the top edge surface of the blanket and it must look like a loose triangle, and then set your baby’s feet facing towards you. The shoulder of the baby should face below the fold in a blanket.
• Then arrange the baby according to the folding of the blanket and fold the bottom of the blanket by covering up the baby’s feet. Finally, complete the swaddling process by arranging and pulling the remaining sides.