A carrier for suspending an infant from a person's shoulders has a seat and a partial back support, a separate back which is removably attached to said partial back support so it can be adjusted and shoulder bands attached to the front and rear of the seat; the front attachment being separable from the seat. A rain-sun hood is removably attached to the back as an option. The back is stiffened with plastic so that its curvature around the back makes it stiffer.

A restraint assembly for an infant, and particularly for a premature infant, which takes the form of a shirt or vest which is to cover the torso of the infant from which extends sleeves to be located about each arm of the infant. Each sleeve is to be closable by a closing flap preventing the infant's hands from extending exteriorly of the sleeve. The vest includes a closable center opening located across the chest of the infant. The straps are to be securable to each sleeve and are to be secured...

An infant carrier is improved with regards to comfort and transportability by utilizing, in combination, a plastic frame assembly and a laterally-resilient, mesh-type nylon material for supporting the infant. The plastic frame assembly is gently and downwardly contoured at the topmost and bottommost portions so as to provide a convenient and natural means of lifting the carrier. The mesh-type material is secured between an upper and lower plastic frame member. The plastic frame member is further...

A two-shoulder trunk-engaging infant carrier for protectively supporting an infant, which includes a substantially thick, cushioned seating platform, removably housed in fabric or fabric-like material. An extension of the fabric projects upward from the bottom-most edges of the platform in the form of a three-sided compartment with a front-closing catch/release and leg partition. A long belt issues from an expandable rim passage and is extendable around the compartment for manipulative control o...

A container, for carrying an infant in a supine position, having an open top which is covered by a flexible cover of resilient perforate material, provided with seat belt retention means such that it can be retained to the rear seat of a vehicle having seat belts therein, and in the event of vehicle impact, an infant is supported over a large area of its body.

In accordance with the present invention, a parent unit (receiver) of an infant monitor includes an electronics housing, an antenna, a speaker, and a visual light display portion. In one embodiment, the light display portion is mounted on the front surface of the monitor. In another embodiment, the light display portion is mounted in conjunction with the antenna. The light display portion may include elongate light display members associated with individual light sources (LEDs). Also in accordan...

The present invention is directed to a new unit dose packaging for infant formula. The infant formula is manufactured as a tablet. One tablet will typically contain sufficient nutrients to produce a single serving of the formula (i.e. the amount of formula an average infant consumes in a single feeding). Other aspects of the invention are directed to feeding an infant such a reconstituted tablet and packaging containing such infant formula tablets.

An automatically-opening infant mat that is movable between an open position and a closed position includes a water-resistant flexible material sized to have an infant, at least from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks, placed on the material while the mat is in the open position, a cushion coupled to the material to be disposed under a portion of the infant's body while the mat is in the open position and the infant is placed on the material, and a resilient bias member coupled to the ma...

An infant walker that provides a safe and confined mechanism in which a child may effectively development the requisite stability and/or balance for proper walking skills and associated motor coordination, and wherein the infant walker is aesthetically pleasing to promote eager utilization of the walker by a child.

This infant chair comprises an independent seat (4) being related to a headrest (5) being fit to be positioned at different heights, the seat thus adopting different in-depth positions, the lifting of the headrest to a higher position bringing about a bigger depth for the seat's position. The seat is formed by an assembly of two plates (6 and 7) being transversally linked to each other in a pin-jointed connection, said assembly being linked in a pin-jointed connection to a lower support (9) bein...