FAQ's Answer 1
1. Has this product had any professional testing or trialling or comply with any safety standards?
There is no legal classification anywhere in the world for this type of product. Therefore there are no established safety Standards. To this end we have undertaken extensive testing and professional hospital clinical trialling. Plus a proven track record since 1992! With nil reported incidents!
The Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product is a simple 100% natural, top quality home spun, special weave, chemical free cotton fabric ‘wrap’, which allows a baby to do everything he/she is able to do according to their age and stage of development. The only things they cannot do are those things which may put them at risk. A young baby can be safely positioned off the tummy whilst an older infant out of the high SIDS risk period can be taught how to turn around within the wrap to allow them to sleep in their desired sleep position.
Our philosophy is that we support positive, nurturing parenting and professionally trialled baby safety products.
The product arose due to the inventor’s experiences during her nursing training and designed the product for her own baby son who was a climber, to give her a few extra moments to get to her son after he woke before he could fall and injure himself. The statistical data available in most ‘developed’ countries indicates that nearly one in five 0-4 year olds that are hospitalised every year due to falls are from cot, bed, and bunk falls. The results are death, permanent serious brain damage and other injuries. Worldwide little education is given on this topic. See ‘testimonials’-ACC letter. http://www.safetsleep.com/scanned/falls/acc_letter.pdf
We have tried to cover as much information as possible about the trialling and evidence-based material in regards to the Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ products. We trust that some of the information below and on www.safetsleep.com will be sufficient to enable you to help facilitate generic, objective, accurate education to parents regarding the Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwrap® products. All of our information is based on published studies, national and international statistical data and we are certain that we have made a significant contribution to reducing the significant preventable injuries and deaths of infants due to babies standing, climbing and falling. Also those babies who creep, roll and or turn in their sleep and end up with their faces/ heads covered or jammed up hard against cot bars or bed frames, both scenarios potentially causing ‘Positional Asphyxia’ (suffocation). Ref;
In New Zealand alone we reach nearly 15-20 per cent of all first time babies born each year and we know that at least 200,000 babies have slept safely in a Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwrap® product between 1992 – 2007!
For many parents and babies we have also helped prevent much of the unnecessary trauma associated with positional Plagiocephaly (flattening or deformity) of baby’s head.
Over recent years fully accredited Hospital clinical trials have established the efficacy of the Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwrap® product in assisting the safe positioning of sleeping babies when product instructions are followed. Other safety options are available in Question 12. See our website Testimonials ‘Heads’ and Medical Facts. It has been established that the Sleepwrap® is a safe and very useful adjunct to keeping an infant in a selected position.
In 1992 a professional consultative process began, which spanned nine months of trialling. The questions for our questionnaire were formulated with the help of key medical professionals and fifteen clinicians from a wide variety of fields within the medical profession including Paediatric, General Practitioners, Orthopaedic, Baby/Child Health Professionals, Plunket/Karitane family units, Hospitals, Nursing Counsellors, sleep centres, behavioural psychologists, developmental psychologists, midwives, ante and post natal tutors, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists to name a few (report available on request). The Questionnaires were sent out with official self‑addressed stamped envelopes marked "questionnaire". These were opened at an official meeting at which professional people, Paediatricians and volunteers plus the parents of participants were present when they were opened and subsequently assessed. The results of the survey questionnaires provided convincing evidence that the vast majority of infants react very favourably and the vast majority of parents/caregivers were very happy with its application (raw data available).
For ten years twenty five percent of despatched orders contained questionnaires which produced regular feedback. These and letters from medical professionals are available for inspection and provide overwhelming evidence that the product is meeting the comfort and safety needs of infants.
Over a period of fifteen years we have auditable figures that show well over 200,000 babies slept safely in a Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product!
As you are aware, SIDS education worldwide is very thorough, very clear and well distributed, and even with all this excellent educational advice from SIDS organisations there are still deaths occurring. Consistently since 1992 the Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwrap® reaches up to 20% of all first time babies born each year in
We feel we are also making a reasonable contribution. We trust you will agree.
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Many hospitals are using Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwraps® in the following situations: gastro-oesophageal reflux, irritable hips, cranial osteopathy, porta-catheter (central line), gastrostomies, supra-pubic catheter, traction and during some types of dressings in plastics and burn cases. Also in such areas as maintaining positions, e.g. with hypospadias patients who have to be on bed rest for a week post surgery, cleft lip and palate babies to stop them from rolling on their tummy post-operatively, and for assistance during the removal of sutures in babies and children. Please see www.safetsleep.com/hospital.html for a list of hospital uses.
The Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ products are also made to specific safety dimensions to ensure that babies’ limbs are unable to be caught or jammed.
At the manufacturing level there are three points of Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures.
The fabric has been scientifically tested: 0.27 “Tog Rating”, which ensures the breath ability of the weave, suitability and safety for young infants, particularly important during the high SIDS (Cot Death) risk period and/or in hot climates. When the Sleepwrap® is around the baby it equals 1 Tog. The product has been used successfully in
The consistency and strength of the fabric weave and the automatic fastening strips have been hospital laundry tested for durability to ensure that the product will withstand hundreds of washes. Industrial strength cotton thread is used, all corners are mitred and backstitched and bias trim is used to ensure extra safety and durability. With all reasonable care the Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product will safely last up to two babies aged newborn to aprox two and a half years and more when used on boats making it a very versatile and inexpensive purchase.
The SleepwrapÒ is designed and invented as a ‘wrap’ for use during sleep and for the few moments before and after sleep NOT as a restraint. The automatic fasteners will hold for those few moments from the baby waking to parent/caregiver being able to attend to the baby. For very wriggly babies see Question 12. The Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product goes hand in hand with responsible, nurturing parenting and supervision skills. There is nothing as valuable as loving, human supervision.
We run workshops, conferences, expos and have DVDs which we freely distribute. An instruction leaflet accompanies the product to ensure wise and correct usage. The product instructions also have clear illustrations to ensure correct usage. Our website is an informative, well researched evidence-based resource for parents, carers and health professionals.
In February 2000, the Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product was the only Australasian product to both exhibit and present a Paper at the International SIDS Conference held in
Regarding the usage and ‘implied’ SIDS endorsement of ‘sleeping bags’. We agree that some degree of movement may be physiologically more difficult for babies to do, however it is still possible for babies to creep and end up with their heads pushed hard against cot bars and be at risk of positional asphyxia (ref NZ.Med J 2002:115: 193-4). We have nursed babies who have tripped and toppled in their cots while in a sleeping bag, have hit the back of their head or the face against the cot frame. One of my own doctor’s four children regularly used to fall out of bed in his sleeping bag up to four years of age. To the best of our knowledge there have been no clinical studies on sleeping bags or other products of this nature, for example.
Apart from the Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ products we are not aware of any other baby sleeptime soft-good product on the market in the world which has had such extensive fabric testing and experiential track record since 1992, including market trialling, hospital laundry trialling, hospital clinical trialling and where all educational, instructional information is based on national and international published data and extremely wide health professional, and market consultation.
The car seat was designed for comfort and safety during travel, the highchair for practical reasons during mealtimes, the pushchair for comfort and practicality whilst walking. The Safe T SleepÔ SleepwrapÒ product was designed for comfort and safety during sleep, and for the few moments before and after sleep.
Also available are the: Safe T SleepÔ ‘Report’ containing statistical data, endorsements and an information pack for medical professionals, containing Internationally published research information on PWS, Positional Asphyxia and other studies. Please enquire to office@safetsleep.com for a full list of contents. * see www.safetsleep.com Testimonials.
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