Patent ID: 8191189

Claim:
A swaddling implement comprising: at least one unitary body panel in a tubular shape to circumferentially surround an infant comprising and defined by a maximum width, a straight first top edge that circumferentially surrounds the infant below the level of the head having a length at least seventy-five (75%) percent of the length of said maximum width, a first bottom edge having a length less than the length of said first top edge, and a first side edge that tapers slightly out to said maximum width and then tapers in having a length at least 150% of the length of said maximum width and a second side edge that tapers slightly out to said maximum width and then tapers in having a length at least 150% of the length of the said maximum width that are permanently secured together to form a circumferential tubular shape, and a pocket panel defining a downward circumferential pocket opening downward from said first top edge, where the bottom edge of the downward circumferential pocket maintains a similar distance from the straight first top edge of the swaddling device secured on the interior of the device within said body panel such that the distance from the top edge to the bottom edge of the downward circumferential pocket is contained within the interior section of the circumferential tubular body panel of said swaddling device, wherein said body panel is open along a portion of said first top circumferential edge for receiving an infant and further wherein said body panel is capable of swaddling an infant by the structural placement of the tubular shaped circumferential body panel with circumferential downward pocket below the level of the head of said infant where said downward circumferential pocket receives the infants arms if said infant pushes said arms upwards toward the open first top circumferential edge where the infant's body is received into the device. Said downward circumferential pocket thus receives said infant's arms preventing said infant from extending said arms out the open portion along said first top circumferential edge of the swaddling implement capable of receiving said infant.