Patent ID: 9693589
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A41B,A41D

Claim:
1. An infant sleep garment to help calm the Moro reflexes of an infant between the ages of about three to nine months old, when the infant is placed in the supine position for sleep, and is not swaddled, the infant sleep garment comprising: a single one-piece garment including: (a) an anterior and posterior side adapted to fit around the front and back, respectively, of an infant no younger than the age of about three months old, and no older than the age of about nine months old therein; (b) an opening, disposed on the anterior side, adapted to receive the infant; (c) a fastener, disposed on the anterior side, configured to close the opening; (d) multiple layers of material bulk and weighting distributed selectively to the anterior side of the garment adapted to provide tactile weighting continuously against the body of the infant and to specific target points of the body of the infant at the hip and shoulder areas to (i) help provide the calming elements of proprioceptive input to aid in the infants sleep (ii) help limit the infant from raising his/her knees toward the stomach or bringing the knees together, thereby making it more difficult for the infant to roll over onto his/her stomach from a supine position, (iii) maintain a snug fit of the garment against the body of the infant at all times thereby maintaining resilient-tactile weighting continuously against the body of the infant to help diminish the Moro reflex from startling and waking an infant when sleeping or prevent an infant from falling back to sleep when woken, and (iv) help maintain the legs of the infant apart from each other to again help prevent the infant from rolling onto his/her stomach from the supine position, wherein the posterior side of the garment includes less layers of material bulk and weighting than the anterior side of the garment; and (e) venting, adapted to counter heat buildup when the infant is wearing the garment, wherein the venting includes: (i) a permanent and non-adjustable semi-circular scoop neckline sewn into the garment so that an uppermost-outer edge of the scoop neckline is adapted to reside at a level on the infant no higher than the infant's upper-chest area, and below any portion of an infant's neck when an infant wears the garment, wherein the scoop neckline is adapted to leave the upper chest and neck area of the infant permanently uncovered and exposed to air; (ii) permanent sleeves and leggings including openings at each distal end of each sleeve and legging adapted to receive the hands and feet of the infant without covering them thereby exposing the hands and feet of the infant to air when placed in the sleep garment, wherein the distal end of each sleeve is adapted to be positioned above each wrist of an averaged-size infant between about three and nine months old when wearing the garment, whereby the extended openings are adapted to further expose an infant's arm to air, while maintaining sufficient length and weighting in the arms to help prevent flailing of the arms during the Moro reflex that can prematurely wake the baby or prevent the baby from falling asleep; and (iii) a securable-ventilation flap on the anterior side of the garment formed when the fastener to the opening is unfastened, wherein the securable-ventilation flap is adapted to expose the infant's chest, and permit heat to escape the garment so that the infant does not overheat when wearing the infant sleep garment.