Swaddling garment

摘要

A new or alternative swaddling garment that swaddles infants by sufficiently restraining movement of the limbs to suppress the startle reflex, yet allowing movement of hand to mouth thereby facilitating non-nutritive sucking and allowing the infant to self-soothe by sucking the hands or the fabric of the garment.

主权项

1. A swaddling garment for swaddling an infant, including
an upper portion for enclosing an infant's upper body, wherein the upper portion includes: (a) a bodice portion, and (b) one wing portion on one side of the bodice portion and another wing portion on another side of the bodice portion, said one wing portion and said another wing portion extending laterally from the bodice portion at an uppermost portion of the garment; each of said one wing portion and said another wing portion having a wing tip at an uppermost and most lateral portion of each of the wing portions, each of said wing portions being large enough to completely surround and retain an infant's arm and hand with the hand accessible to the mouth, and said swaddling garment being tapered in at a garment waist line below said wing portion to restrict movement of the infant's arms out of the wing portions and maintain the infant's hand in position accessible to the infant's mouth for non-nutritive sucking.