Riley Says: Lets Get Ready to Woombie

***UPDATE: Riley says "Hey Jenny Rack-o-van!  You're the winner of the original woombie!  Hope your bambino loves it as much as I love mine!" ***

Riley says "Hey!"

Riley says "Hope you're having a great Monday!"

Riley says "I love the woombie.  Like, seriously love it.  Like I love my mama.  But don't tell my mama."

Riley says "Let me tell you all the ways I love the woombie."

I love the Original Woombie in the Newborn size.
Even though I only got to wear it for a few weeks.

I love the Woombie Air.
It keeps me nice and cool when the days are warm.

I love the Original Woombie in the Big Baby size.
I love it in gray.
I love gray.
NOTE: She isn't always happy when she first gets slipped into her woombie.
It doesn't mean (a) that she doesn't like it [she does] or (b) that it won't work for her [it does].
Sometimes she just needs to struggle a bit before settling down.

Here's our Woombie story:  RG has been swaddled in some way since day one.  Helps her sleep, calms her when she's fussy, keeps her nice and snug.  We started out using blankets, then switched to Halo Angel Wings Sleep Sack.  That was working fine for us, until RG decided to be a giant and outgrew it.  Also, she was pretty wiley when it came to getting her hands out and waking herself up, which was becoming a problem.  

The first few weeks, every product we used, every routine we implemented, every breath we took was focused on getting Riley to sleep.  The longer, the more sound the sleep, the better.  So the whole "Oh, Mom! Look at me!  I've got my hands out and now I'm smacking myself in the face with them and waking myself up" thing was a non-starter.  And then some friends of ours whose daughter was 3 weeks older than ours told us that they had been given a Woombie and their girl was sleeping like a champ.

Well, in the middle of the night not many nights later, I purchased a woombie (or two!).  They came before long, and I was so excited to try them out on her that I didn't even wash them first.  I know, I should have.  But I was reeeeely looking forward to some sleep.  I woombied her (Its a verb now.  Embrace it.), did our little pre-sleep ritual, and laid my princess down. 

And she slept.

And she's been sleeping ever since.  Not literally, as that would be sleeping for weeks straight and is unhealthy.  MOTY, here I come.  Anyhow, every time she goes down, she's woombied.  Today we very nearly had a serious issue, as all 3 of her Woombies were in the laundry.  So we had to improvise with a sleep sack.  It worked in a pinch, but it doesn't stretch like the woombie does.  It also doesn't have the snazzy two-way zipper that the woombie does that makes it super easy for middle-of-the-night diaper changes.  Not that I know anything about middle-of-the-night diaper changes anymore, since RG is making it a habit to (wait for it!) Sleep Through The Night.  

Ghetto Woombie Substitute

I credit the Woombie, BabyWise parenting, and my mad awesome mothering skills with this success.    Oh, and  prayers.  Ending every prayer (meals, bedtime, whenever) with "And please let Riley sleep" has to have some effect as well.  But seriously, baby girl loves her swaddle.  When she wears the woombie, she's able to get her hands up to her mouth still, which allows her to soothe herself, but she still feels snug, secure, and doesn't startle.  Its ah-mazing.

Since the Woombie is so fabulous, and since its a beautiful Monday, and since the Woombie company, Practical Yet Fabulous Products by KB Designs is also fabulous (its kind of their middle name), you have the opportunity to have a woombie yourself.  Now, people have asked, and no, they do not come in adult sizes.  I'm sorry about that. There's no help for it.  But they do offer woombies in sizes Preemie through Giant Baby, which I'm anticipating putting RG in before much longer.  This giveaway will run through Wednesday, April 24 at 11:59 PM.  Here's how to enter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also, in case you're a person who cares about these things, the Woombie has won all sorts of radical awards, which you can read about on their website.  And if you can't wait to see if you've won and you need a woombie, STAT, you can click on that woombie button on my sidebar and go order yourself one (or 3)!  This is the last giveaway for a while, and regularly scheduled things will resume shortly.  You're welcome.

<3 M.

p.s.- I bought my first woombies, and then I emailed KB Designs and told them how much I liked their product and that I wanted to do a giveaway, and they sent me another woombie to do a review on.  Its the gray one.  Just so you know how this went down.  

p.p.s.- If you don' t have a baby in your life to win a woombie for (which would have been a much better giveaway name, dang it!), you could win a woombie for me!  That might be against the rules, but I'm just saying, there's people in your life who need a woombie.