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Parenting

21st Apr 2015

LEARN: How to double swaddle a baby

One double baby burrito, coming up

Katie Mythen-Lynch

A technique most commonly recommended by mothers and grandmothers, swaddling can help soothe a colicky or agitated baby by recreating the constricted feeling of being in the womb.

You may not find swaddling necessary at all, but if your baby wriggles out of a normal swaddle, this double-swaddling technique might do the trick.

Using two light baby blankets, this nurse shows how to carefully wrap an infant into a neat baby burrito.

By the time she’s finished, the sleepy tot is just about ready to drift off. And so are we.

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swaddling