Swaddling is a technique used on babies in which a caregiver wraps the infant snugly.
The state Department of Social Services had found multiple licensing violations, including inappropriate swaddling techniques.
The Christmastime seasonal "Swaddling Ale, " for example, was a bit too heavy on spruce-tree extract.
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It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.
When done correctly, swaddling can be an effective technique to help calm infants and promote sleep, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"Probably the restriction of movements by clothing could increase the length of sleep, and a cold environment makes swaddling possible without overheating, " she says.
Safe-sleep guidelines don't specifically recommend eliminating swaddling in blankets, she notes, but rather warn that blankets shouldn't be allowed to come loose in a crib.
Still, nurses who have long prided themselves on their blanket-swaddling technique sometimes called "baby origami" now are delivering stern warnings about how easily blankets can get loose.
In 2010, the state Department of Social Services shut down a child care facility that Lida Sharaf had been operating for a similar swaddling offense, department spokesman Michael Weston said.
Sarah Swaddling of Farming Today said that "the milk processors, the middle man between farmers and the supermarkets, are the source of farmers' anger" due to exposing themselves to the world cream price, which has recently crashed.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in swaddling blankets didn't intend to hurt the babies and contend they didn't commit child abuse, their attorney said.
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