Infant positioner for reducing risk of positional plagiocephaly

A positioner for positioning an infant in a supine position for sleeping and for reducing the risk of developing positional plagiocephaly while sleeping in a supine position, comprising in combination:

• a mat having
• a generally rectangular body portion having opposite sides and opposite ends, and
• a generally rectangular head portion having opposite sides and opposite ends whose respective widths are less than the corresponding widths of said body portion opposite sides and opposite ends, and
• one end of said head portion being associated with and extending outwardly from a medial portion of one side of said body portion;
• first and second elongated pillows,
• each having an elongated flat base and an elongated crest region located in upwardly spaced relationship to said base,
• each having elongated opposite sides that generally decline in transverse width relative to each other with increasing upward distance from said base to said crest, and
• having a longitudinal curvature such that each of said first and said second elongated pillows when viewed from a point near the center of said body portion can appear to be convexly curved,
• mounting means for fixing said base of said first elongated pillow over said mat along one end of said body portion, and
• hook and loop fastener means associated with said base of said second elongated pillow and with said matt adjacent to the other one of said ends of said body portion so that said base of said second elongated pillow is releasably engageable over said mat at various orientations relative to said mat;
• and
• a head positioner having
• a generally rectangular, flattened bottom, opposed sides, and first and second opposed ends, and
• an elongated apex region extending generally perpendicularly in a region between said head positioner opposed sides and extending in upwardly spaced relationship relative to said bottom,
• said first and said second opposed ends each being generally flattened and each said opposite end being inclined relative to the other so that the transverse width therebetween generally declines with increasing upward distance from said bottom to said apex, and
• fastening means for fastening said flattened bottom over said matt with one side of said head positioner being adjacent to the other end of said head portion;
• whereby, when an infant is located in a supine position between said first and said second elongated pillows with the head of said infant resting on said head positioner, said head is caused to turn in a direction that is opposite to the location of said apex relative to said head.