Maternity-gown w/bilateral-nursing access-vents

Abstract

A specialized female nursing-gown such as for hospital / maternity-ward use as well as for maternity-nursing at home; wherein is provided dual-opposed obliquely arranged slit like vent-apertures facilitating quick and easy breast-feeding by a new mother, in a convenient albeit minimal exposure manner, facilitating semi-privacy appealing to the more private or modest female. Another feature of the garment is its conveniently avulsable sleeve seams, enabling the garment to be readily put-on / taken-off by the user;-thereby obviating potential entanglement with the usually present hospital / I.V.-line. The fashionably simple construction of this garment advantages automatic-closure concealing of the breasts during non-use, along with low-cost and easy maintenance.

Description

I.) BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001] 1. Field of Invention[0002] This invention relates to hospital-gowns for newly nursing mothers, and more specifically it relates to garment construction providing a normally concealing portal for an infant's quick and easy mammary-gland access.[0003] 2. Relevant Prior-Art[0004] Background research discovery provides some prior patent-art regarded as germane to this disclosure, chronologically for example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,611,086 (filed: May 1996) shown a long-sleeved nursing-garment featuring a pair of circular openings through which the mother's breast's are enabled to protrude for ready feeding of her baby; plus, the garment's upper-portion includes a pair of opposed-flaps forming a jacket-like appearance, wherein is provided a vest-pocket in each of the flaps into which is inserted a disposable-pad of absorbent material intended to soak-up excess liquid.[0005] In U.S. Pat. No. 6,282,719 (filed: July 200) is shown a womans maternity nursing-go...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] A.) In view of the foregoing discussion about the earlier invention art, it is therefore important to make it pellucid to others interested in the art that a vital object of this invention is to provide an inexpensive maternity-gown for hospital or home use, which can be long or short sleeved, mid-length or full-length;--yet in any case, also provide its user the lightweight comfort akin to a conventional evening-gown in its 1st-modality of relaxed usage. With the garment in place upon the wearer, a simple albeit highly effective means of facilitation breast-feeding is executed via a 2nd-modality condition of usage, by merely spreading-open the usually overlapping sides of a normally-closed near vertical linear slit-vent like access closure, which are arranged to generally align proximal the location of a woman's respective right and left brest. This procedure is achieved without perceivable resistance, thus immediately exposing the mother's breast and nipple ready for direct presentation to the awaiting infant. Upon completion of the feeding procedure and removal of the infant from its intimate feeding-position, the mother will find that the preferably spread apart right and left half portions of the slit-vent structure tends to readily reclose, whereby the left and right linear-edge portions of the slit-vent thus inherently (tantamount to "automatically") return to their natural slightly overlapping closed positioning by virtue of the natural gravity-drape of the gown. Hence, although women having more protruding breasts may only need to slightly lift the garment's chest-panel forward sufficiently as to thereby relieve any momentary impingement of the seamed slit-vent edges;--no elastic material is necessitated. The normally concealed visual appearance is restored, as the natural sewn structure of the seamed-fabric lends itself to returning the slit-vent to its closed 1st-modality condition, and therefore generally concealed appearance; the presence of which device really becomes visually lost to the eye, particularly when a random pattern of fabric, such as a paisley-pattern of fabric, is employed in the fashioning of the garment.

Problems solved by technology

In order to dress / undress a conventionally sleeved garment (that is, not openable), it is required the I.V.-line's intravenous-needle be extracted from insertion into the patients vein, hence posing the unwanted problem of inducing excessive invasive-trama to that region of the patient's body, via reinsertion of the I.V.-needle.

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