One of my favorite bits of information about brand new babies is that they have no idea their arms and legs belong to them. They get those arms flailing and then they're distracted by all that activity around their heads. Your unswaddled baby might be trying to fall asleep, but keeps hitting herself in the face. Then she gets distracted and angry, wondering who it is that's doing the hitting. I think this is so funny!
So that's the main reason she's swaddled. We didn't want her to be poor little Daphne, always wondering who it is that keeps hitting her in the face.
Instead, she has to wonder who is doing this to her:
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