A method for making an infant sleep garment for calming Moro reflexes in an infant between the ages of about three-to-nine months old when the infant is placed in the supine position for sleep, the preferred sleep position as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for the prevention of SIDS, and is not swaddled, the method comprising:
- configuring the infant sleep garment to have an anterior and posterior side 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;
- configuring the infant sleep garment as a single one-piece garment, whereby the single infant sleep garment includes no buttons, or appliques that may present a chocking hazard if placed in an infant's mouth;
- configuring the infant sleep garment to include an opening large enough to receive the infant;
- attaching a fastener to the opening;
- configuring the infant sleep garment to have permanent sleeves and leggings including openings at each distal end of each sleeve and legging to receive the hands and feet of the infant without covering them;
- configuring a length of each sleeve to end only above the wrist of an averaged-sized infant between the ages of three and nine months old to allow for heat dissipation;
- configuring a length of each legging to end above the ankle of an average sized infant between the ages of three and nine months old to allow for heat dissipation;
- configuring the sleeves of the infant sleep garment to allow the infant to push up if rolled into a prone position in order to permit the infant to raise his/her head and move his/her neck in situations where her air passage is blocked or impeded;
- distributing multiple layers of material bulk and weighting to the anterior side of the infant sleep garment to provide tactile weighting to the infant's body and corresponding to proprioceptive-target points of the body of the infant at the hip and shoulder areas of the infant to (i) help provide calming elements of proprioceptive input to aid in the infant's sleep (ii) help limit the infant from raising his/her knees toward the stomach or bringing the knees together, thereby making it 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 that can startle and wake 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;
- further configuring the leggings of the infant sleep garment apart from each other to maintain the legs of the infant separated so that the legs of the infant may not be as easily raised and thrown to the side by the infant, whereby the separated leggings also help prevent the infant from rolling onto his/her stomach, which is not the preferred sleep position advocated by the American Academy of Pediatrics for infants within the target age of the infant sleep garment of about three to nine months old;
- configuring a permanent and non-adjustable semi-circular scoop neckline, wherein the uppermost-outer edge of the scoop neckline is no higher than the infant's upper-chest area, and below any portion of an infant's neck away from his/her mouth so as to not impede his/her airway and provide additional heat dissipation when an infant is placed inside the garment, and the opening is fastened by the fastener, whereby the single infant sleep garment is easy for a caregiver of the infant to employ instead of a swaddle product that must be properly applied and an infant can become disengaged from creating dangerous loose material in the crib with the infant;
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- configuring a securable-ventilation flap on the anterior side of the garment when the fastener is unfastened, whereby the ventilation flap exposes the infant's chest, and permits heat to escape the suit so that the infant does not overheat when wearing the infant sleep garment.