Great Swaddling Moments in History

· History has recorded that Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Jesus were all swaddled as babies.

· In Tibet, babies have always been swaddled tightly in blankets. Traditionally, the wrapping was secured with rope and the baby was tied to the side of a yak to be carried as the family hiked through the valleys.

· On the high plains of Algeria, babies were swaddled to protect them from drafts and evil spirits.

· During the Middle Ages, European parents kept their babies immobilized in a tight, bulky swaddle for the first four to nine months.

· The American Academy of Pediatrics insignia features a swaddled fifteenth-century Italian baby.

· Many Native American tribes carried their papoose – young baby – tightly packages and slung onto their backs. (The 2000 U.S. one-dollar coin displays an image of the Native American guide Sacajawea with her tiny baby snugly bundled on her back.)