Your Baby Blankets

Baby Security Blankets – and a Little Monkey Business

I’ll admit it. I’m mature enough to tell you that I had a security blanket for about 5 or 6 years. I called it “Banky”. It ended up so tatty and worn that I can’t tell you what color it was when it began its career in the baby security blankets industry.

It was a piece of a larger baby blanket, I think, nothing too special, but I slept with it, rubbed it against my cheek when I sucked my thumb and cuddled it when I felt sad. I also dragged it around my dad’s coffee and sugar cane plantations, used it to wrap baby rabbits, sat on it when I needed a picnic blanket for my dolls and tossed it on the beach as a cloth at pretend seaside tea parties. I also wiped my nose on it, mopped up spills with it, and dried my pet monkey with it. (Yes I grew up in the tropics and had a monkey to whom I fed bananas and bathed once a week.) I imagine my security blanket had to be disinfected fairly often, but I can’t remember a day between ages 3 to 5.5 when Banky wasn’t with me.

I can’t remember much about my first banana boat trip to Livingston Island except that I held my security blanket real tight! And sailing in the Caribbean with my dad, sometimes in hurricanes and storms, would have been un-survivable without soft baby blankets to wipe the salty sea spray from my eyes. When I climbed an active volcano for the first time at age 4.5, with my parents of course, I remember the lava spewing out from the carter only half as well as I remember hugging my baby blanket as I crouched behind a tree.

I understand that the baby security blankets you might be wishing to purchase for your newborn baby or as a gift for someone special may not end up in such places, providing comfort to freshly bathed monkeys, being wipes for salty-eyed sail-boating toddlers, or being cuddled by volcano climbing children, but frankly you never know.

Baby security blankets have come a long way since 1966 when I was born. I’ve noticed, at friend’s baby showers, that there are the most extraordinary security blankets. They make me want to burrow my face in them and suck my thumb! Okay I’m a strange 43 year old woman with 3 cats (no monkey, now), but my inner child is alive and well.

When my sister had her two children, naturally I made sure they each had baby security blankets of their own, and that’s how I know where to find some very snug-able, tote-able, disinfect-able baby blankets that will make any newborn feel comfy, cozy and secure at sea, on mountains and islands or in their most exotic dreams.

Here are a few suggestions:

• Bear Security Blanket -personalized teddy bear– embroidered bear blankie/about – $29
• Aurora Tech Giggles Giraffe Plush Pink Giraffe Baby Security Comfort Blanket/ about- $8
• Plush Golden Retriever Lil’ Snuggler Baby Security Blanket by Douglas – about $14
• Personalized Lamb Blankies – extra huggable blankies/ about – $30
• Kiddopotamus Huggacub -luxe baby security blanket/ about – $11
• HuggaCub – luxe baby security blankets – soft microfiber fabric with satin trim – $19.99
• Spot the Dog Security Blanket – $19.95

• Kidsline Tiddliwinks Froggie Security Blanket – embroidered/ machine washable/ about- $10
• White Comfort Silkie- Designed by Mother of Comfort- /White Flannel /about – $18
• International Playthings I Play ChiChi Blankie – blue pastel baby tab blanket/ about $10
• Spunky Buddyluvs by Gund Baby from BabySakes – puppy security blanket/ about -$20
• Micro-cozie Puppy Security Blanket – a Micro Cozy Blankie/blue/ from Amazon /about – $31
• Chenille Giraffe Baby Security Blanket – super light cashmere/machine washable/ about -$11
• Lovie Jack Terrier Blanket – ideal for newborns/ breathable fabric / about – $23
• North American Bear Dog Baby Cozies Blanket – great for travel/machine washable/ about – $8