How To Swaddle A Baby Tutorial ♡ NaturallyThriftyMom

Hey guys and welcome back. Today we're going to be doing a quick how-to video on how to swaddle a baby. Baby Haley here is four months old, so basically for this all you're going to need is your baby and some sort of a swaddle blanket. The one that I have here today that I'll be showing you with is a muslin swaddle blanket and this one's from Ideal Baby. I love muslin for swaddling because it's breathable, it's really really soft, and you can use these for so many different things. So not only as a swaddle blanket, a nursing cover, a little quick changing pad when you're on the go, so many things, let's get to it. So to start out we're going to get our swaddle blanket all shook out here and flat, and what I like to do is sort of make a triangle shape with the swaddle blanket. So you're going to find two corners and you're going to let it fall into sort of like a diamond. To flatten this out you guys can see kind of a visual. So the farther that you make this top point go to the bottom point, that's the smaller it's going to be. So for a newborn, you're going to be like almost to the bottom here. For a little bit bigger baby, or if you want just more generous sizing, you can make it go up a little bit. So keep that in mind. For Kaylee I'm just going to take it to about right here, and then we're going to grab our baby, our little baby, and we're going to put the tops of her shoulders right at the top of the blanket. Then you can take one arm and gently fold that down. You're going to pull the corner of this swaddle blanket over, and I like to just kind of tuck it underneath her little booty there so it's nice and tucked. If I'm putting her in something like her swing at night, like her mama row swing, I'll leave her feet untucked, but since we're just going to be doing a general swaddle, like if you're going to be carrying her, passing her around, then you do want to tuck the feet. And I do that just lightly so she can still extend her feet and they're not trapped in there or anything. Or you just want them out, huh? So if you were going to tuck them, you just do kind of like that. And then we're going to do the same thing on this side. So we just kind of have her arm loosely hanging down there. And there we go. We've got a nice swaddle little worm here. Hi! Hi, girl! This is great, honestly, if you need to nurse or you're just trying to put your baby to sleep or just soothe them, a swaddle is definitely the best way to do that. It makes them feel secure, and especially when they're, you know, fresh out, newborns, they love this because it reminds them of being in the womb. They feel comfortable. They feel secure. They just love it. Yeah, and Kayley wants to nurse, huh? You ready to go take your nap? Yeah? All right, guys. Well, I hope you enjoyed the how-to video. If you did, don't forget to give it a thumbs-up and subscribe if you'd like to see more videos from us. I upload new content every Monday and Friday, and then also the occasional video thrown in extra on Wednesdays. So we'd love to have you back. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. Bye, guys!