Patent ID: 7882570

Claim:
A thermo-regulating garment that provides access to an umbilical region of an infant wearing the garment, the garment comprising: a torso cover having a front and a back, the torso cover defining a head opening, two arm openings, and a bottom opening, and the front having a bottom edge; a pair of foldable sleeves having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being attached to the torso cover at the arm openings and the distal end defining a hand opening; a flap intermediate the front and the back of the torso cover and opposite the head opening, the flap being attachable to the bottom edge of the torso cover to at least partially cover the bottom opening; and a patient-assessment opening in the front of the torso cover defining a slit centrally located in the front of the torso cover having a first slit edge and a second slit edge that do not overlap, the first and second slit edges diverging before converging at an end point located prior to the neck opening as the first and second slit edges extend in the longitudinal direction away from the bottom edge towards the head opening, and the slit having a vertical length between 1 and 8 inches from the bottom edge to the end point; wherein the patient-assessment opening provides access to the umbilical region of the infant wearing the thermo-regulating garment when the flap is fully attached to the bottom edge of the front of the torso cover.