How To Swaddle Your Infant

The fact is, our friend The Holbstron has never even changed a dirty diaper.  Isn't that something? The man knows nothing about babies.

The other night I decided to start by teaching him how to swaddle. To do this I needed a blanket, and I needed a volunteer. Barney is always willing. You never know when your Scottie is going to need a good swaddle, after all.

Swaddling

With Many Thanks To Barney For his Cooperation

Start with a blanket. 

Take your baby and lay him at the top left corner of your blanket. Take the right corner and wrap it over your baby's right arm, like this:

Now tuck that corner under the baby's body, nice and tight (the tighter the better).

Next, take the bottom corner of the blanket, pull it up to cover baby's feet, and tuck it under the top fold. 

Last, stretch the left corner over your baby and tuck it under him good and tight.

Now you are ready to pick up your baby!

What you do with him now is entirely up to you.

(Should I nurse him?)