Customer Reviews

Miracle Blanket -Baby Swaddling Blanket -Beige

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4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(8)
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1 star:		(9)

 

 

I must admit that in the past I haven't had the best luck with products containing "miracle" in their name. However, this blanket is the shining exception!

Our son was a very big boy -- 10 lb, 6 oz of joy. We had read Harvey Karp's "The Happiest Baby on the Block" (highly recommended) and we knew we wanted to swaddle him. We had planned to use a receiving blanket, but we quickly found out that none of them were remotely big enough. Not even close. We spent a ton of money buying bigger blankets, and we tried two other expensive swaddling blankets as well. Nothing worked, nothing held the baby, and all three of us were desperate to get some sleep. We even bought a cheap sheet set and tore it up to get some bigger patches of cloth. No dice.

Finally, I ordered this blanket online (Amazon didn't carry it at the time, alas.) BINGO -- our son slept through the night at once! Yes! We had to wake him from a sound, swaddled sleep to change and feed him; he went back down like a rock as soon as we re-swaddled him. He loved this blanket. When he saw us coming with it, he'd try to lie quietly with his arms in his sides in anticipation of the (very simple) process of swaddling him up. And I loved the fact that this blanket was so soft and comforting and had no snaps or any other fasteners that could rub him.

I should mention that the two new parents I gave this to as a shower gift were pathetically grateful, and couldn't stop gushing. I understand; for a new parent, anything that grants you sleep is your favorite thing in the world.

A note to parents considering this blanket: Be prepared for some of your friends (especially the childless ones) to recoil in horror at the thought of swaddling. "You're tying your baby up?" "What if he suffocates?" "But he won't be able to move! It's cruel!", etc., etc. These people probably mean well, but their comments are very ignorant. The fact is, your baby has just spent months in the most confined space imaginable -- a womb where he could barely budge at all. And new parents will immediately notice that newborn babies have virtually no control over their newly freed arms -- they'll startle themselves from sleep time and again, then start flailing their hands around and scratching their faces raw. Newborns don't have the neurological control to stop themselves from flailing, so they love it when you return them to the safe, warm, familiar confinement they remember from the womb.

Another comment you'll hear from some people is, "How do you know when the baby doesn't need to be swaddled any more?" Easy. They start to wriggle out of the swaddling. They may not be able to talk, but they'll let you know clearly when they're ready to move on.

This product is on our list of "must-haves". I've tried a million different methods of swaddling with a regular blanket but after an hour (at most!) our son wriggled his way out of it. And once their arms are out, they wake themselves up constantly.

Swaddled in this blanket he's never gotten his arms out, even though it's not wrapped overly tightly. And since their legs can be wrapped in our not, it helps with babies that get too hot or too cold.

The "miracle" of this blanket is two extra pieces of material inside that go over their arms and then under their backs. Having seen this I tried doing it with a regular blanket with some success, but it's just never quite right.

So cry once and spend the $$. Yes, it's a little expensive for such a small amount of fabric but inovation isn't always cheap -- and in this case, it's worth it.

The Miracle Wrap is such a simple idea but it works wonders. I originally received a Swaddle Me wrap by Kiddopotamus as a gift and my son who was only 6 weeks old at the time would break out of it repeatedly so a friend recommended the Miracle Wrap. So far he has not been able to break out of this one and due to the ingenious design I know he never will. Be prepared for the fact that it looks a bit like a straightjacket. It has been the topic of many jokes in my family. But it works!

This product has worked for my baby's arms but not her legs. She kicks her legs right out no matter how tightly I wrap her. I have ended up just leaving her legs out of the blanket.

That said, the miracle blanket is great for swaddling her arms. There is a flap for each arm, and my baby is not able to free her arms.

Another plus is that the miracle blanket is easy to use.

I was using the kiddopotomus swaddle me, and my baby was able to break out of that--both arms and legs. That is why I purchased the miracle blanket. It is an improvement over the swaddle me, but the product needs to be tweaked such that the legs cannot be so easily kicked out.

We have tried the Swaddle Me, the Swaddle Blanket, and the Miracle Blanket. The ONLY one our daughter (now two - she used it for about 3 months) and now our 2 month old son does not break out of is the Miracle Blanket.

ADVANTAGES
* Works differently than others - holds arms at side with two "flaps" that tuck under the body (uses body weight), and then a longer piece wraps around the baby. The end result is a very tight but comfortable looking coocoon that works!
* NO VELCRO - The velcro on the Swaddle Me kept waking our daughter up!
* Keeps them warm with nothing else required.

DISADVANTAGES
* The part that swaddles the bottom half of the body sometimes come loose - you have to make sure that you wrap the blanket around the lower half o the body REALLY well!
* Nothing else we can think of

I started my son from birth with a SwaddleMe blanket, but when he reached 12 lbs. he was too big for the small size and too small for the large size. So I Had to try a different brand and this one had such great reviews. No wonder! It will fit any size baby and it really does stay put even without velcro. I wish I had spent my first $30 on one of these instead of three SwaddleMe's (the velcro gives out quickly). My son, now three months old, loves his blankie! Don't waste your money on any other brand.

Yes, yes, I read Karp's Happiest Baby on the Block, and yes, I believe that swaddling itself is the miracle-not this blanket. I had a few swaddlers from First YearsThe First Years Easy-Wrap Swaddler - Yellow (much cheaper and worked better), but my son outgrew them. So, I decided to try the Miracle Blanket. I wish I hadn't spent the money. First, the price is very high. Second, it's a long blanket that wraps--there are no closures (velcro, snaps, etc), so he tends to slip down into the blanket, and the arm flaps bunch up in his armpits (uncomfortable). What's worse, the blanket unravels and wraps around his neck. Scary! He gets very hot in this blanket (despite central A/C and ceiling fan--his back and neck are drenched!), and overheating is another risk factor for SIDS. Oh, and forget about "quick" middle-of-the-night diaper changes--it's nearly impossible to get his legs out of the bottom pouch, so wrestling him out of the blanket wakes him up. Overall, I would not recommend this blanket.

Worked like a charm! I purchased these for my twins and both my husband and I were truly amazed! Our twins slept better and so did we. This should be on every new monther's registry! Best money ever spent!

This is the only swaddling blanket my daughter couldn't wiggle out of! We used it until about 6 months and loved it! I'm having a second baby in a couple of months and wouldn't dream of bothering with anything else... Highly recommended.

My husband and I watched The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD before our son was born and we started swaddling him on day 1. Every time he made a peep, we re-swaddled him. We had a couple of Kiddopotamus velcro swaddlers but we found that he was able to get his arms up. When I heard about this swaddle blanket I knew that he would never be able to get his arms up so we bought it. We only used this at night and we used it until he was about 5 months old. One night, we stopped swaddling cold turkey. It was easy for me and my son to give up the swaddling but not so easy for my husband - he was convinced that swaddling was the only reason our son was sleeping at night.

My opinion: this swaddle blanket really does what it's supposed to! No baby could ever wiggle out of it. The downside is that the parents may start to depend on it and be reluctant to give up the swaddling.

I bought one of these for a pregnant friend but she wasn't in to swaddling her baby and never used it. For that reason, I don't think it's a very good baby gift. Some parents and babies just never need to do the swaddling thing.