How do the nurses wrap newborns up so perfect and tightly in the hospital?

Answer 1

its not a thing of wrapping them up perfectly, its a matter of making them feel secure, just like they were in the womb

Answer 2

Place the blanket flat on the bed in front of you in the shape of a diamond. Grab the top corner in your hand and fold towards the center of the blanket, not reaching the half way point! Place the baby's head on your newly created fold. Grab the left corner in your hand hold tightly, so that the blanket remains taut. ROll baby gently on his/her side, so that you can tuck the blanket snugly underneath the baby's body. Grab bottom corner fold towards the top, with the corner in the center of the baby. Grab the left hand corner bring tightly over and aound the baby to the back. Done.

Answer 3

Duct tape. Take it from me: A man who has never had regular access to a baby. Lay the child out on a table and roll him up in a blanket. then start the tape from the neck to the feet leaving some room for waste disposal.
You can also decorate the tape with little ducky stickers and the number of Family Services =)

Answer 4

Practice

For a good swaddle wrap technic look at the book "Happiest Baby on the Block" it has the best and securest swaddle wrap I have seen.

Answer 5

Most of the receiving blankets are too small to swaddle tight enough, but if you get a larger blanket or a blanket designed for swaddling (there are several at babies-r-us) it really helps out. We use a "SwaddleMe" for my daughter to sleep in. Actually, we have two so that if she spits up on one in the middle of the night, we have a back up one to use. They were about $10 a piece and she sleeps much better, which means she sleeps longer, which means I sleep longer, when she's in it.

Answer 6

You need a pretty large blanket....the receiving blankets that I have were not as large as those from the hospital. I found that wrapping them in the blankets here at home was tougher because I didn't have enough material to work with.

Answer 7

open your blanket up and fold down one corner just a little. Put the baby's neck on the folded line, then wrap one side and tuck it under his back folding part of the blanket around his arm. Pull the bottom up over his belly loosley, the tuck the other side under his back folding his other arm aroun part of that blanket. It will make the baby feel very secure. I hope this makes sense. It's hard to explain, but easy to show.

Answer 8

Like a burrito LOLOLOL.

You put the receiving blanket down, put the baby from corner to corner with the head about 6 inches down from the top corner, bring the bottom corner up, then wrap the side corner around the baby on one side, then the other.

Hope that helps, you can email me with questions.

Answer 9

Because they have lots of practice! But it's really easy. Lay the blanket on the floor and fold one corner down. Lay the baby's head where the folded corner is. Then fold one side over and tuck under baby. Then bring the bottom up and fold the other side over. Walah...baby burrito.

Answer 10

Our son was born 2 months premature and was in the NICU for 2 months before he came home to us. We used to call him our little burrito because he would be wrapped up so tight. They call it swaddling and the babies love it. It reminds them of their first home...the womb! They taught us how to do it but I see a couple of other people have already explained so I won't repeat. As I said, babies love it and it makes them nice and comfortable!

Answer 11

Practice.