Patent ID: 8832864
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: A41D

Abstract:
1. A method for keeping an infant clothed while providing medical personnel with the ability to assess intravenous therapy sites and attach, position and separate medical devices, comprising the steps of: providing a garment; placing the infant on a rear panel of an unfastened fabric sleeper; covering a right shoulder of the infant's body by joining a right top margin of an upper right front panel of the sleeper to a right top margin of the rear panel by a first plurality of non-continuous fasteners; covering an upper front portion of the infant's body by joining a left margin of the upper right front panel of the sleeper to a right margin of the upper left front panel by a second plurality of non-continuous fasteners; covering at least some of the lower front portion of the infant's body by joining a bottom margin of the upper right front panel of the sleeper to a top margin of the lower front panel by a third plurality of non-continuous fasteners; covering a left shoulder of the infant's body by joining a left top margin of the upper left front panel of the sleeper to a left top margin of the rear panel by a fourth plurality of non-continuous fasteners; covering at least some of the lower front portion of the infant's body by joining a bottom margin of the upper left front panel of the sleeper to the top margin of the lower front panel by a fifth plurality of non-continuous fasteners, such that the joining of the top margin of the lower front panel to the bottom margins of the upper left front panel and the upper right front panel covers the lower front portion of the infant's body; joining the right margin of the lower front panel of the sleeper to a lower right margin of the rear panel by a sixth plurality of non-continuous fasteners; and joining the left margin of the lower front panel of the sleeper to the lower left margin of the rear panel by a seventh plurality of non-continuous fasteners, each of the pluralities of fasteners, defining, when closed, openings; inserting one or more medical equipment tubes or wires through one or more of said openings defined by the closed non-continuous fasteners; and keeping the infant clothed while medical personnel asses intravenous therapy sites or attach, position, and separate medical devices.