First time parents often buy every baby product on the market, if for no other reason than inexperience (we know we did!). I’d be afraid to go back and tally up the money wasted on products that turned out to be absolutely worthless…I could probably afford that new car by now. *sigh*

By the time your second child comes into the world, you’ve wised up to all that marketing hype — you know what works and what doesn’t, especially when it comes to getting babies to sleep. After wasting our time with items like Lavender Baby Wash (”Guaranteed to Calm Your Baby and Ease Them to Sleep” — yeah, right…it might put you to sleep if you chugged the entire bottle), we stumbled upon one of the very few items that we will be using again with our second child: Miracle Blanket.

This swaddling blanket truly lives up to it’s name. From the first time we used it (closely following directions, of course), it calmed kidlet and induced sleep within moments. Hmmmm….swaddle in a Miracle Blanket and it results in sleep…it was difficult not to abuse our new-found power.

How is the Miracle Blanket different from swaddling in any other blanket?

Since the regular blanket purchased for your baby is usually a plain square or rectangle, they are not designed to really hold your baby’s limbs close to their body. This means that if the parent can remember the tricky maneuvers to help a regular blanket work, a couple of movements from baby bring the regular blanket undone. The Miracle Blanket is designed to hold the arms and feet separately and pull them close to the body. This provides an easy method of swaddling a baby.

If you’d like a happy baby and some of the precious sleep that goes with a happy baby, your Penguin Moms highly recommend giving this a try. Sleep….it’s a miracle.