Cara Dumaplin tests infant swaddle and garment prototypes on babies ages 6 weeks to 8.5 months, evaluating sleeve length, wrist fit, hip movement, and safety details like tag placement and Velcro adjustments.
You are not gonna believe what I just did. I cut holes in it. Okay, but I have a really good idea. Hear me out. Imagine our swaddle and then the arms were like a puffer jacket. Now it can't be weighted, that's not safe. I don't know what I would do down here. A bag? I don't know. Maybe it's just cut off. You see where I'm going here? Here it is. 4.5-month-old. She's in the 51st percentile. These are a little long. We do want it to kind of stay. It needs to be pushed up here. I don't think we'd want that down there. The length is good. Another inch would be here. We just don't want it to encroach on the hips, which it's not right now. I want to see her roll in it. Get that other hand out there, Mae. We definitely need that to come back here. 5 months old. She's in the 96th percentile for height. Really tall. Lucy, look how tall I am. And the 56th for weight. A little long on the sleeves. It did have to go a little bit to the back. If they do roll over, they have to be able to push up. Can you bend that arm? Oh good, yes you can. There it is with a sleep sack. But when we travel, they don't have AC, and so it's like really hot. Yes, if it was hot, you could have a onesie and not anything over the legs. What do you think? I'm not worried about hips at all. Let's say a baby was this much shorter, those hips still can move freely. The neck is good, even the tag placement is fine. She can still push up and bend, so I like that it doesn't have anything at the bottom because then you can decide the temperature. I think it's really important that stays around the wrist. I think we want that snug for safety. Okay, thank you. Okay, well, it tastes really good, doesn't it? May is 7 months old, and these just feel a little long. They don't come up on the chest up here on the shoulder. Both elbows can bend. Each sleeve's a little different. This one has the rib in it. This one does not. These probably need to be even tighter. There's enough Velcro to make it tight. 6 weeks, 12 lbs. Obviously the sleeves are too long for him and the cuffs are too big. Direction of life. I will tell you, it is hard to get their little hands through here. He is 3 months and how much does he weigh? 13.9. So can you bend your arms? You don't love it. Yeah, I get it. It's terrible, terrible. Thanks for your feedback. 8 and a half months. Do you know how much she weighs? 17, 18. She's in the, what, 50th percentile? Yeah. So she stuck her hand right through it. Okay, you like it? She can push out. Seems to fit her well. Hi, are you going to go night-night? He probably would.
