The Miracle Blanket Swaddler formerly known as the Amazing Miracle Blanket - Solid Blue
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Baby Products Reviews of The Miracle Blanket Swaddler formerly known as the Amazing Miracle Blanket - Solid Blue
Customer Review: A True Miracle
Summary: 5 Stars
I have NEVER reviewed a product before in my entire life, but I feel so passionately about this product that I could not not review it. My son was born six weeks premature and we were having a HORRIBLE time getting him to sleep once we came home from the NICU. We had tried swaddling before but he seemed to HATE it so we had given up. Finally after one particularly long night I mentioned this blanket that my friends had recommended to my husband. He said at this point we would try anything so I ordered the Miracle Blanket right away. This blanket has CHANGED OUR LIVES! My son went from sleeping in 45 minute to hour and a half stretches to now sleeping for one five hour stretch, getting up feeding, sleeping for a four and a half hour stretch, feeding and then going back to bed for another hour and a half or so. This all happened in the span of 3 weeks! I truly was skeptical because we had tried everything, but I promise this actually works. We used to have to do the crib dance where we would get him to sleep in our arms, lay him down in his crib, and have him wake up almost immediately screaming. Now we lay him in his bed and he STAYS ASLEEP. for all those sleep deprived moms out there....you know that this is the true miracle.
On a side note, he is also colicky so whenever he gets in one of his fits and can not calm himself down I wrap him in the blanket and rock him and he is able to get a hold of himself. I can not say enough good things about this blanket. It has truly allowed me to keep my sanity through this all!
Customer Review: It's a miracle if you can get it on right, but be patient, it works!
Summary: 5 Stars
While it's a miracle if you can get this blanket on your child correctly the first few times, especially a fussy one, if you do, it's totally worth it because it works. BE PATIENT. Putting this on correctly does take some practice. The instructional video on their website -[...] - is helpful. Compared to other blankets we had previously used, our son was sleeping longer stretches as a result of being swaddled in this blanket. Don't be discouraged if your child breaks out of even the best of swaddle jobs, though. We have yet to make it through an entire night with the blanket fully intact. But, I'm still rating this 5 stars because this blanket has done a far better job than any other swaddle blanket we've tried (e.g., Kiddapotamus). The blanket's site does claim this blanket stops colic - guaranteed. We have yet to experience this, as our son is still a little colicky with this blanket on. But, at least he doesn't bust through the swaddle during his tantrums.
The first time my parents saw me swaddling our son in this blanket, they were horrified, asking why I was putting this straight-jacket on him. I explained Dr. Karp's (Happiest Baby on the Block) techniques for calming a baby and told them it worked. They just weren't used to all the high-tech gadgets we parents have compared to what was available to them 30 years ago.
We bought two so we wouldn't be rushing around trying to get one in/out of the wash. Best investment!
Customer Review: A Great Swaddler! Doesn't Pop Off like the other blankets!
Summary: 4 Stars
We had used regular receiving blankets, SwaddleMe with velcro, and Woombies... the Woombie wasn't a true swaddle, but we like the product as a transition product and use it. However, for true sleep we NEED our son swaddled. We had read "The Happiest Baby on the Block" and watched the DVD, and had seen a real difference in getting our son to sleep swaddled, but he is a strong boy and kept busting out of regular blankets and the velcro blankets - or he would move his hands until the top part of the velcro blankets were up around his neck and face! So not safe! We spent the money to buy the Miracle Blanket and have used it for 2 nights and naps - it is great! He never comes out of it! The only frustration is the foot pocket, like other folks have said - sometimes he kicks out of it, but if I do it right and cover the foot pocket with both blanket flaps, it stays pretty well. It hasn't been a "Miracle that caused our baby to sleep frequently and long hours" that it was for some, but it definitely is the BEST swaddler we've seen since our 9 week old was born! It keeps his arms in the right position and doesn't come undone! I found changing a diaper wasn't bad, I just slipped his feet out of the foot pocket and pushed the blanket up a little and didn't have to unswaddle! It is light and I love that the material isn't too thick so he doesn't get too hot. LOVE this blanket and will use it with all our future babies!Customer Review: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this blanket in hopes that I would have the same results as pretty much everyone else, and that my baby would sleep at least a few hours (I was super sleep deprived!). Well, I got the blanket finally and was more excited than ever just to see a blanket, and as soon as I wrapped my baby up...SCREAMS! I thought it would stop after a while of him in it, like everyone says they do. I held him and rocked him and tried everything even nursing while he was in it, but no. He hated it. So I folded the blanket up and put it at the bottom of the drawer thinking I just wasted a lot of money on a blanket that doesn't work!!!
Well, 2 months later I tried it again to see. My son slept 9 hours and has been for the last 2 weeks!! I thought after the first night it wouldn't last, but it is. See my son was a little Houdini, no matter how tight I would wrap him in other blankets, he would easily get out of them. Not this one (well actually once, but I think it's because I didn't wrap him right). He sleeps so well in it. If you have one and haven't had success with it, try it again!If you are looking to get one, get it! You will love it, if not at first eventually. I think that if I had wrapped my baby up in it from day 1 he would have liked it. Try it,it worked for me! :D
Customer Review: Our Best Baby Investment
Summary: 5 Stars
At the risk of sounding like an infomercial or planted endorsement, I have to say this was our all-time best investment for our baby. Our son was born with a very strong startle reflex (aka Moro reflex) and would throw his arms wide like he was falling as soon as we put his down in a crib. It seemed like as soon as we got him to sleep, he'd wake himself up again. We'd watched "The Happiest Baby on the Block" before he was born, and knew that swaddling could help calm a baby. But our son would break out of any blanket we wrapped him in. Thus we ended up resorting to co-sleeping (usually nursing him to sleep) or swinging him to sleep in his carseat (ouch!)
Then a friend asked to try the Miracle Blanket on our son and I said, "Why not?" It worked! The Miracle Blanket was easy to use and our little guy couldn't break out of it. At first he protested for a while. Then he "submitted" and eventually fell asleep. Now when we wrap him in it he actually smiles and falls asleep pretty quickly (we also use the motion of a bouncy seat or a hammock-sleep Amby bed to help transport him to dreamland). I wish we'd discovered this earlier. In the future, this will be our shower gift to all our friends.