A swaddling blanket to alleviate colic has a back panel long enough to support a child from neck to feet, a leg pouch to loosely contain the child's legs, arm restraints to hold the child's arms against and parallel to the child's torso, a tapered short blanket arm to wrap over the child, and a tapered long blanket arm to wrap around the child more than once from the opposite direction to provide comforting pressure around the child's arms and torso.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/399,679, filed by the same inventor on Jul. 31, 2002. This application is also a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/040,125, filed by the same inventor on Jan. 21, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,043,783, which is in turn a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/622,705, filed by the same inventor on Jul. 21, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,868,566.
An article for swaddling a baby includes a blanket formed with opposed arm-receiving sleeves. The blanket incorporates a pacifier retaining structure, which is formed in the blanket between an outer edge of the blanket and one of the opposed arm-receiving openings and which is for receiving and retainer a pacifier relative to the blanket.
An infant/toddler carrying apparatus that incorporates a center panel having at least two leg holes through which legs of an infant/toddler to be carried are inserted; and left and right wrapping panels fixedly connected to left and right edge portions of the center panel, at least the left and right wrapping panels being formed so as to wrappingly surround an infant/toddler to be carried. A panel insert is fixedly positioned with the center panel so as to reinforce or otherwise support the center panel. The center panel may include a fabric frame fixedly positioned on the center panel, and formed as at least one of a pocket, a warning label, an information insert, and an attachment loop. Also, the center panel may include a drop-in pocket in which the infant/toddler is positioned. The leg holes are positioned to allow the child's legs to extend therethrough.
