Validation of SmartSnugg Infant Sleeping Bags

Abstract

Keeping a baby’s head and face uncovered during sleep is an important part of safe sleeping for babies to prevent Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI). It is also important to not to let babies become overheated while they sleep. Increasingly infant sleep bags are being used to keep babies sleeping safely. Sleeping babies in a safe baby sleeping bag, one designed especially for baby, with fitted neck and armholes and no hood, has a number of features that help baby sleep safely. Research has shown that sleeping bag use reduces the risk of bedclothes covering the baby’s face, and delays the baby rolling onto the tummy during sleep until baby is past the age of peak risk of SUDI. Supine sleep is also promoted when the zipper is opened to the front.

In this study we will validate a new SmartSnugg infant sleeping bag which records and displays the temperature inside the sleeping bag so that parents can easily monitor this. Infants will be studied during sleep in two different thicknesses of SmartSnugg to assess if the SmartSnugg accurately records baby temperature. The company SmartSnugg are funding the Hudson Research Institute to conduct this study.