Swaddling Babies with Cotton Blankets

Swaddling babies has been in practice for long. It has become more popular after the researchers have found the importance of swaddling babies with blankets in the development of their physical and nervous system through many studies.  Now-a-days different types of swaddling blankets are available in the market. But of them all, it is better to use cotton blankets to swaddle your baby as they are more comfortable and healthy.

Swaddling a baby gives him/her proper comfort and ensures a better sleep. A swaddled baby has twice REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. REM sleep is important for the brain development of your baby. It has been found that swaddled babies have lower risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) than babies who sleep without being swaddled. Besides, swaddling babies with blankets helps them to develop a good posture. As they are in a warm place, it is helpful for them.

Mother womb is the safest and most comfortable place for babies. When they come out of the womb, they feel fussy in the new surroundings. Swaddling them with blankets helps them to adopt with the new environment. It gives them the warm and safe feeling of the womb and enables them to cope up with the new world they have come into. So it is very important to swaddle babies in their early months.

Usually it is better to swaddle babies when they are newborns. Once they are of two or three months of age, it is not much necessary to swaddle them. Actually they don’t need the additional warmth and security which they used to get from swaddling. Still, many parents have been found to claim that swaddling helps their older babies to sleep better who don’t sleep well.