Choosing Swaddle Blankets for Your Baby

When you're looking for baby and kid's bedding and bath essentials, we know how important it is to find the right blankets to provide extra warmth and just-right comfort for your infant. In our baby blankets and quilts collection, you'll find swaddle blankets and wearable baby blankets, or sleep sacks, designed to do just that, in addition to providing a host of other benefits to help your baby. Read on to learn more about the ways these blankets can work for your baby.

What Are the Benefits of Swaddle Blankets?

Swaddling blankets can provide several benefits to your baby when swaddling is done correctly. Swaddling can help babies sleep better and reduce anxiety and stress. It can also help reduce or prevent babies from waking up due to their startle reflex. Swaddling can also ensure that babies are sleeping on their backs.

Take care not to overdo swaddling or use more than one swaddling blanket at a time. This helps prevent your baby from getting too warm. Ensure the swaddle blanket is secure enough around your baby to prevent it from coming loose.

Wearable baby blankets, also called baby sleep sacks, are a handy alternative to swaddle blankets. While swaddle blankets are essentially soft, cozy blankets, wearable blankets are designed with holes for your baby's head and arms. In effect, you're putting your baby in this type of blanket to wear, unlike a swaddle blanket that you wrap around your baby.

As you finalize your choices, browse bath time essentials like our baby bath wraps and towels. Made from soft, absorbent cotton, our bath wraps and bath towels are the perfect pick to keep your infant warm and cozy after a wash or bath. Choose from styles like hooded animal-themed bath wraps or textured cotton towels.

What Features and Designs Are Available?

Discover a world of baby-friendly patterns and prints, including modern designs, safari and jungle prints, whimsical moon and star themes, and happy hedgehog patterns. Select a three-piece swaddle blanket set that features three unique prints or patterns. Choose your favorite base colors, like our white bedding for a nursery, for more inspiration. Also, consider coordinating their new swaddle blanket set with colors and patterns found in our crib bedding for the nursery collection.

Our wearable weighted sack and swaddle are designed to help reduce stress and cultivate a state of calm for your baby. It may also help them sleep better and longer. The weight of the sack and swaddle is evenly distributed from shoulder to base to provide just-right comfort for your newborn. Plus, the weight of the sack and swaddle won't restrict your baby's movement.

Our swaddles and wearable baby blankets are made from materials like soft cotton muslin that's breathable and easy to wash. Look for options crafted from viscose from bamboo, a soft, lightweight and breathable material. Just like our organic baby bedding, you'll find organic cotton swaddle blankets here, too. These blankets are part of our Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)-certified organic cotton collection, which means that the cotton in these products is grown without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

Whatever you need to ensure your baby stays cozy, we're sure you'll find it with us at West Elm Kids. Happy shopping!