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         Love Me Baby Wrap Me Up Swaddle

 


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Love Me Baby Wrap Me Up is a safer smarter swaddle.  The original and worlds first baby swaddle which allows your baby to sleep in their natural position - their arms up. Furthermore the medical community overwhelmingly agrees that babies should be wrapped with their arms up!

Love Me Baby Wrap Me Up Swaddle

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Love Me Baby Wrap Me Up is a safer smarter swaddle.  The original and worlds first baby swaddle which allows your baby to sleep in their natural position - their arms up.   Wrapping babies, swaddling babies, cocooning babies is a globally accepted and proven method for helping babies to settle and sleep.  Furthermore the medical community overwhelmingly agrees that babies should be wrapped with their arms up! 

Key Benefits

Swaddle Baby with arms UP
Leading research hows that babies should be swaddled in their natural position with arms up. With hands naturally in the wing position babies can bring their hands to their mouth or gently touch their cheeks. These actions are very important for two main reasons: it helps the baby self soothe therefore settle better and babies learn about the world through hand to mouth actions even when they sleep. Therefore having access to their mouth assists with development. In a WRAP ME UP baby is snugly swaddled, helping reduce startle reflex, but still has access to their hands and stays safely wrapped all night long!

A baby swaddle thats ergonomically designed
Often parents wrap their baby very tightly so that they do not unwrap themselves during sleep. Wrapping babies too tightly is dangerous, it can cause hip dysplasia and respiration problems. The WRAP ME UP baby swaddle is the simple answer to safely wrapping your baby perfectly every time. Specifically engineered 360deg stretch fabric, expands and contracts to fit your baby. The WRAP ME UP baby swaddle has an ergonomic shape and stretch fabric that’s perfect for promoting your babies circulation... and you’ll never risk wrapping too tight again.

Wrapping baby and touch reflex
There are another set of senses in the human body called proprioceptors, referring to pressure or touch of the joints and muscles. Proprioception is activated with pressure from swaddling this is what helps babies soothe & settle. WRAP ME UP is designed to have a womb-like fit which follows the babies natural silhouette, so even pressure is applied all the way down the body, not too tight in one spot or too loose in another, just perfect! This evenly distributed pressure is proven to settle even the most colicky bub.
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How to Wrap
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Medical Research
Love Me Baby
takes the health of babies very seriously so WRAP ME UP was developed in consultation with various childcare health experts and with extensive study of medical research.

Research into swaddling babies for sleep time is changing the way Australians wrap their babies.

baby sleeping tips

Non nutritive sucking is a natural reflex in young babies
Sucking has (have) a soothing and calming effect. The need to suck is present in all infants. Some infants suck their thumbs even before they are born, and some will do it right after being born.
SOURCE: American Academy of Pediatrics, Article "Thumb Sucking and Pacifiers" 2000

Thumb sucking is one of the most common habits of children. Approximately 50 to 87 percent of children suck their thumbs. The habit starts early in life, with 90 percent of newborns showing some form of hand sucking by 2 hours of age.
SOURCE: Children's Hospital Boston (the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), Article 2006

The importance of sucking for infant self-soothing has been demonstrated in a variety of studies. For example, pacifier use or thumb sucking is often offered as a way for babies to tolerate the pain of needle punctures or other painful medical procedures. Non nutritive sucking has been found to help the development of preterm babies, and in all babies, thumb or pacifier sucking is associated with self-calming. Thumb sucking may increase when your baby is tired or unhappy, as well as when she is unwell or teething. The thumb, therefore, provides your baby with a way of calming herself down- providing her with important experience in managing her emotions.
SOURCE: Anita Sethi, Ph.D. "Baby Steps: Thumbs Up!"

WRAP ME UP has been designed with this primitive sucking need in mind. With arms up the baby has access to their thumb and fingers whenever they require self soothing.

Non nutritive sucking reduces colic and babies crying time
An extremely fussy two day old baby when offered self regulatory non-nutritive sucking (SNS) for as long as required (to satiety) after feeding. The effect was striking. The infant settled down immediately, sucked almost steadily for 30 minutes and fell into a deep sleep.
SOURCE: Carol Porter Measel, Gene Cranston Anderson "Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing" Volume 8, Issue 5 Pages 265 - 2721979 by NAACOG -
a division of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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Self soothing promotes better quality and longer sleep in babies
Thumb and finger sucking babies tend to sleep longer and more soundly than non-sucking infants, apparently because sucking eases the transition from wakefulness to sleep.
SOURCE: West Valley Pediatric Dentistry, serving the western region of Phoenix, Arizona 2008

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Health benefits of non nutritive sucking in premature babies
Preterm neonates (mean 32 weeks' gestation, 1,300 gm birth weight) were provided a pacifier for non nutritive sucking during tube feedings in the intensive care nursery.....The infants provided with pacifiers averaged 27 fewer tube feedings, started bottle feeding three days earlier, averaged a greater weight gain per day, and were discharged eight days earlier for an average hospital cost savings of approximately $3,500.
SOURCE: Dr Gene Anderson “Infantile Colic: A Possible Solution” Journal: MCN, American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing 1983

Health benefits of swaddling in premature babies
Preterm infants have been shown improved neuromuscular development, less physiological distress, better motor organisation, and more self regulatory ability when they are swaddled.
SOURCE: “Swaddling: A Systematic Review” Pediatrics Volume 120 Number 4, Oct, 2007

Medical community says babies should be swaddled with their hands up
A new baby’s natural position is with her arms bent at the elbow and her legs flexed. Wrap her like this, making no attempt to straighten her out before you start. Above all, leave her hands where she can suck them if she wants and is able to do so.
SOURCE: Penelope Leach, PhD, research psychologist specializing in child development. “Your Baby and Child” Pg 18 - The Newborn 2003

Swaddled babies sleep better
Studies show that swaddling actually does help babies sleep better and longer. The study, "Influence of Swaddling on Sleep and Arousal Characteristics of Healthy Infants" evaluated whether or not swaddling influences infants' arousal to noise. The results showed swaddling increased infants' sleep efficiency and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.

Swaddled infants spontaneously awakened less often from sleep.....
The researchers assert that since swaddling helps excessive crying, it may encourage parents who normally place their babies on their stomachs to prevent crying, to instead swaddle their babies and place them on their backs. Back sleeping may also prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
SOURCE: “Influence of Swaddling on Sleep and Arousal Characteristics of Healthy Infants” American Academy of Pediatrics May 5, 2005

Swaddled babies soothe better
When compared with massage, excessively crying infants cried less when swaddled, and swaddling can soothe pain in infants.
SOURCE: “Swaddling: A Systematic Review” Pediatrics Volume 120 Number 4, Oct, 2007

Swaddling your baby too tight is a major health hazard
An increased risk of the development of hip dysplasia, which is related to swaddling with the legs in extension and adduction....Swaddling in a manner that allows the hips and knees to move freely might not have the risk increasing adverse effect.
There is evidence that there is a higher risk of respiratory infections related to the tightness of the swaddle.
SOURCE: “Swaddling: A Systematic Review” Pediatrics Volume 120 Number 4, Oct, 2007

Some authors warned, in two case-control study reports, against tight wrapping and the possible increased risk for SIDS, because hypothetically, respiratory function could be compromised.
SOURCE: “Swaddling: A Systematic Review” Pediatrics Volume 120 Number 4, Oct, 2007 in reference to information contained in:Tonkin S, Hassall I. Infant sleeping position and cot death. Aust Paediatr J. 1989;25:376 –377 Chapell MS. Sudden infant death syndrome (crib death) and possible relation to long-term mattress compression. Psychol Rep. 1990;67:1267–1272
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sleeping baby tips

WRAP ME UP is engineered to expand and contract to fit the baby.|
The ergonomic design follows babies silhouette avoiding the risk of wrappingbaby too tight providing the parent is using the correct size for their infant. The fabric of Wrap ME UP has a 360 degree stretch, meaning the baby has a full range of motion. The design is such that it fits baby snugly and evenly down the body, to avoid being too tight or too loose in any one spot. The baby is able to move their arms and legs and settle to sleep in a natural position rather then forcing their limbs into swaddles that are controlled by the parent. Parents often wrap extremely tightly as they do not want the babies limbs to escape during sleep and wake the infant. With WRAP ME UP the snugness of the wrap is regulated automatically through the design of the product.

It is more difficult for swaddled infants to flip onto their tummies during sleep
The physical restraint of swaddling presumably prevents infants from turning prone during sleep before they have gained experience in turning to prone and back again when awake.
SOURCE: “Swaddling: A systematic Review” Pediatrics Volume 120 Number 4, Oct, 2007

When babies arms are UP in the WRAP ME UP it is much harder for a baby to accidentally flip from their back to their tummy as their arm is in the way. Therefore from a sleeping supine position it can be safer to wrap babies with their arms up. Furthermore if somehow a baby does turn onto their tummy older babies are better enabled to push up on their arms and move their head to either side so they can breathe easily. We can not guarentee that your baby will not flip onto their tummy so if your baby has started rolling please discontinue use of any swaddling item.

Breathability of Wrap Me UP
WRAP ME UP is made of ONE layer of the highest quality Cotton Spandex. Our fabric is no heavier then any average commercial stretch cotton wrap already sold in Australian baby stores. Also the product is 97% Cotton therefore highly breathable. Wrap me up is much more breathable then other sleepwear items available in the marketplace which are either sleeping bags lined in cotton but stuffed with polyester filling or 100% polyester fleece sleep suits, polyester does not breathe as well as cotton or allow moisture to pass through the fibres. Furthermore since WRAP ME UP stretches to fit the baby the stretching action creates natural openings in the weave, promoting even further breathability.

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