Receiving blankets sound formal, like something a Victorian-era mother might see her baby wrapped in for the first time before being whisked away by wet nurses and nannies. In reality, they’re the ...

You've seen it hundreds of times without really seeing it. It's prominently featured in almost every photo of a newborn, across Instagram, Facebook and photo albums across the country. It's that ...

You’ve seen this blanket, you might just not realize it. It’s in nearly every baby photo taken for decades, yet very few of us ever even notice it—who would bother, confronted with the first image of ...

For our series Beginnings, we're working on a story about a blanket many of you will be familiar with. It's a white flannel blanket, with pink and blue stripes. It's the standard receiving blanket in ...

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After stories about its pink-and-blue-striped hospital receiving blanket went viral on social media last fall, the Mundelein, Ill.-based company that supplies the covers to hospitals around the world ...