I’ve been meaning to post about the Miracle Blanket for months, I really have. You’ve seen T1 wrapped up in it before, in my Day in the Life post (now that I’m finally unpacked and somewhat decorated I’m ready to do another DITL post so you can see how much easier it is now!), and I put it near the top of my very short list of items I consider essential when you have a baby. We own not one, but two, because we don’t want to get caught with one in the wash. That happened once, and That Husband acted like his world was ending. He calls it the miraculous blanket.

It will seem confusing at first when you take it out of the package, but it’s really simple to use. Lay baby down in the middle, wrap the “arms” of the blanket around several times, and *presto*, baby burrito! I’ve read that swaddling works so well because newborns like the tight feeling which reminds them of floating around in the super cramped womb. My mom wasn’t a fan of the Miracle Blanket (I think she thought it was too tight) so she bought us a Kiddopotamus from Babies R’ Us. We really disliked the Kiddopotamus (hereafter known as Kid) and only used it that one time when both of our Miracle Blankets somehow ended up in the wash at the same time. The velcro on the kid was constantly coming undone, and we didn’t feel like we could get him tight enough. We used the miraculous blanket for about 3 months, and we knew it was time to stop when T1 was suddenly strong enough to wiggle his arms up and out of it no matter how tight we wrapped it. Along with the Puj tub, this is a product we will certainly be breaking out for baby #2.

Why post about it now, 3 months after we stopped using it? I received an email from Susan Calloway, VP of Marketing for Miracle Blanket, asking me if I would be interested in giving away one of their blankets. Bloggers who have the amount of traffic I do get all sorts of giveaway offers, and I turn most of them down because I’m not interested in products I don’t believe in. I didn’t have to say no to this offer though because this is a product I happily payed for (twice!), and planned to give away as a gift to friends in the future. Kelli Nicole has one too, she uses it for all of her newborn photography shoots!

Susan sent me this photo, which better illustrates how the blanket works than my own picture. That strip of fabric (I call it the arm) wraps around baby several times to form a tight little cocoon s/he can nestle down into. Just like being safe in mommy’s tummy!

The contest will run through 11:59 pm CST Monday, November 8th. You can enter in the comment section by telling me what you think about swaddling. Like it? Think it doesn’t make a difference? For some reason believe it’s bad for baby? Plan to do it with your own future baby? TH will pick a number and that will determine the winner.

The most important part of this contest is that you follow Miracle Blanket on Twitter and/or become a fan on Facebook. The winner will only be announced in those locations, and you must contact them within 24 hours to redeem your prize. If you’re not following them on Twitter and Facebook you won’t know that you won! (I actually really like the way they are doing this contest, do you?)

*I forgot to note, open to US and Canada only.

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