By Ysha Oakes

Vata and pitta babies flail themselves back awake so often, and they don’t have control over their neuromuscular systems yet.  Daily infant massage and kangaroo care go in my opinion hand in hand with swaddling, for calmer, happy and healthy babies who sleep through their needed cycles of rest.

Swaddling definitely gives comfort to more babies than you would guess. And if their nourishment – breast or formula – is doshically out of balance we still need to attend to other supports although swaddling, skin to skin and infant massage are all known to help.

With gratitude to the people who have made these video clips available to us all…

From a father of 6!
The voice and view of experience,
complete with well, you will see…                                 Russian Method             

Three ways to swaddle – burrito, and
two hoodie variations – nice and easy

The super swaddle technique is often sold with special blankies, and taught in multiple ways.

I’m appreciating especially in winter, with a really wiggly fussy baby, it might be worth getting the bigger blankie and using their system.  Interesting how they wrap the arms separately sometimes.  I have not practiced all these methods, still coming awake to the uses of the internet and appreciate that they all will be valuable from my experience with babies.

Spend a little more time on U-tube if you like, to see more variations which might be key for your baby.   Swaddling in general, and especially in wintertime will be really helpful.

Touch, TLC, singing, bouncing, rocking, swaddling, all can help but it is better if mamas milk is not creating gas, bloating, heaviness, constipation, or even hot stomach. That’s for another discussion!