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To Weight or not to Wait? Posted By: Rubiegem8280
Posted On: 09/07/2008
So I have been shopping... a lot...... I am trying to find patterns, inexpensive ready made, or suggestions for a toddler sized weighted vest and a twin sized (and throw sized) weighted blanket. (suggestios and directions very welcome!!) I know how much weight to use, I know what materials are deemed safe for very young chewers... but I can't find the blanket, pattern, or seller thats reasonable. What is with this? Why does it cost $150 or more for a blanket for a "differently abled" kid? Why would a vest be nearly as expensive? And talk about ugly!! So I gave in.... I am making a weighted blanket using a Navy surplus wool blanket ($20) with a cotten quilted top (free from a catalouge order I made a while back) and a super soft (I-don't-know-what-it's-called) baby blanket material on the other side. Haley picked it out herself at Joann's today (thank goodness for sales cause that alone was as much ($23) as a ready made blanket at TJ Maxx, which she didn't like and had to be returned though I would have adored it!). Then came the vest. I broke down and bought a pattern for a normal vest, kinda trendy and cute but not really practicle, though the only one I could find under 10$. The pockets we will have to wing it. The material for it: two ultra cute and soft corderouy fabrics also on sale at Joanns (will think of a summer weight one later). Then comes the weight for this pretty little project. NO ONE carries poly weight pellets. I had to order them online from an ebay doll dealer to get the best deals. Everyone else wanted about $6 for a little less than a pound of weight. I got 10# for 19.99 (with the shipping). Now there is enough to make more than one vest or add to it as she grows..... Speaking of.... she was 37.5 inches the beginning of the year and 39 yesterday! She will be outgrowing these things so fast our heads and bank accounts will hurt! On the up side.... I found the chewlery online decently priced and ordered her one to help save her clothes and shoes, and toys and fingers..... you get the drift. The chew tube wasn't a big hit, but I hope this goes more her style. On the topic of chewing.... she bit her finger a little while back, left a white half circle growing out by the base... appears this afternoon that she will lose that nail, and I do not see one coming in behind it. Anyone had this issue and know if she will grow another one in or should it be checked? We already had to take her this week for weird tummy troubles. Soo enough rambling for one night I think....
       
Motherof4 wrote this reply on 09/08/2008
Wow! You're a good mommy! I wish I could sew. The nail will probably grow back, but it may take a while. I once dropped a heavy can on my toe and lost the nail, and it took for-eeever for it to grow in again. Have it checked if you're worried, though, especially if it starts looking infected. I'm sorry about the weird tummy troubles. Hope they don't recur soon.

shannonj wrote this reply on 09/09/2008
Hi-Hey, I have an email address for a woman who will sew custom weighted blankets (maybe vests too)...Can't remember the prices, but very reasonable. She makes them to earn money or Unlocking Autism. Her email address is: mindy.adams@sbcglobal.netI believe that she lets you pick out the fabric, sews them up and mails them to you without the weights. You add your own weights, which saves a bundle in shipping, I would think. Let us know what you end up doing...

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