How to Change a Baby's Sleep Sack

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Gather all the items you'll need

   Lay them down on a flat surface where they can't roll off and hurt themselves.
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   Step 2: including the child who needs their sleepsack changed for some reason as well as a sleepsack

   ,,,,,, Reach down and pick up your child.
   
   Most parents prefer to have their spouse hold the child while they switch the garments.
   
   However, another spouse isn't close by to help out, you may end up holding your baby on your shoulder, as if you were attempting to burp them! Unzip the zipper, to the new garment, and place this one in approximately the same position as the old one was, flat open with the neck area above the base. ,,,,,,,
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   Step 3: and whatever else may need to be changed at the same time.

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   Step 4: Open the zipper tab flap that should be currently covering the child's zipper (if one is included

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   Step 5: which most should have).

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   Step 6: Zipper down the zipper to the garment

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   Step 7: until it reaches the terminus at near the base of the sack.

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   Step 8: Take your one hand and reach into their sleeves.

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   Step 9: Grab their arm.

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    Step 10: Pull their arm gently but firmly towards their face and body.

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    Step 11: Repeat with pulling the other arm out of the other sleeve.

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    Step 12: Prepare to switch the old sleepsack for a new sleepsack.

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    Step 13: Lay the baby back down into the garment

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    Step 14: with only their feet (at this point) laying slightly inside the unzipped sleep sack.

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    Step 15: Reach for your baby's first arm.

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    Step 16: Place your baby's one arm gently into the sleeve.

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    Step 17: Push your baby's arm into the sleeve until the sleeve arm can't reach out any further or until the baby's arm reaches out past the end of the sleeve.

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    Step 18: Repeat this placing and pushing steps for the other hand.

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    Step 19: Zipper up the garment.

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    Step 20: Close the zipper tab flap

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    Step 21: to ensure your baby can't play with the zipper once you close it.

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