Adventures in Swaddling

The nurses at the hospital where the girls were born taught us how to swaddle using receiving blankets.  When they did it it, the babies were swaddled up nice and tight, and they actually stayed swaddled.  When we did it, the babies busted out in about three minutes:

We tried it at home with varying amounts of success.  Please note that these pictures were taken very shortly after swadding the girls.  They never stayed in the blankets for long.



Then we discovered the wide variety of blankets that are specifically made for swaddling.  One of my friends had given us two Summer Infant Swaddle blankets.  They have a pouch for the babies feet and velcro tabs that don't come loose if you have wiggly babies like we do.  They were a life saver for the first few weeks.

Unfortunately, the girls are getting longer and stronger.  Their feet are hitting the bottom of the pouch, and Harper somehow managed to work her arm out of the blanket.

Another friend had given us two Miracle Blankets, which were a little too big for the girls when then were smaller, but we decided to try them out now that they are getting bigger.  They also have a pouch for the baby's feet, but they have "wings" to confine the arms and then fabric that wraps around the baby a few times.  They're really nice, but I found Tannah like this the other day:

Her arms were still swaddled, but she had managed to get her legs out of the pouch.  I've also found her with just one let out.  I'm wondering if that means that it's time to stop swaddling, or if it means we just need to wrap them tighter?