Wrap your baby in baby-gami

It may sound a bit far-fetched, but I actually have memories of being wrapped up in a giant kerchief around my mother's back as a baby. Instead of my having some sort of prodigious memory, I was probably begging for rides on her back until an embarassing late age. I do know that all throughout my childhood, when I'd spot that same long scarf, usually as it was porting around some big, baby-sized household item, I'd get an intense memory of feeling safe, all bundled up.

Swaddling a newborn helps keep them comfortable in a familiar, womb-like cocoon. Baby-gami, the book, gives step-by-step instructions on how to create the perfect baby wrapping. The book is divided into swaddling that newborns can't squirm out of, and comfortable slings for the older baby. The instructions are, in fact, much like the ones for creating complicated origami shapes, but the results are so cute (and snuggly for your baby), that it may be well worth the effort.

Baby-gami is $10 from Amazon.