A registered nurse who made home visits noticed new parents struggling with swaddling their babies because the swaddle blankets were too small or too thick, or they simply couldn’t remember how to make a good secure swaddle. Because they kept asking her to share the secret of hospital nurses – how to swaddle, she decided to use her hands-on knowledge coupled with her medical and design background to create a new kind of swaddle blanket; a swaddling blanket that was large and square and had the directions sewn right on the label to put an end to the confusion. Founded in 2002, privately held Washington-based SwaddleDesigns® launched when the first customer, a major hospital, ordered 4,000 swaddle blankets. Today the stylish, high quality and highly functional product line encompasses swaddling blankets, blanket sets, security blankets, receiving blankets, burp cloths, infant sleeping sacks, crib sheets, baby bedding, hooded towels and more.