Additional Benefits of the CuddlyWrap
for Children
Infants
with Special Needs
Every baby needs and loves to be held. While this is not unique to the infant with
special needs, how to satisfy these needs can be challenging.
Premature Baby
- Safe, appropriate and
ergonomic support for a tiny infant.
- Promotes
vestibular development by providing boundaries and movements that mimic
the environment of the womb.
- Access
to caregiver's heartbeat, voice, scent and warmth promotes optimal
development.
- Appropriate
height for eye contact and visual stimulation with caregiver's face.
- Helps
to position the tiny infant for breastfeeding.
Baby With Position Requirements
- An
infant with cerebral palsy can have one leg flexed and held within the
comfort of the CuddlyWrap™.
- Allows
baby with hemiplegia to have safe positioning of
affected side.
- Provides
tactile and vestibular stimulation for infants with visual impairments.
- Provides
visual and vestibular stimulation for deaf or hard of hearing infants.
Delayed
Motor Development/Mobility
- Enables
the caregiver to meet the needs of a toddler by carrying the child in a
comfortable manner.
- Enables
the caregiver to meet the toddler’s needs to be carried/held due to
decreased function caused by disease – for example, the toddler with
cancer who has stopped walking.
Baby
Requiring Increased Sensory Input
- Enables
the baby to move with their caregiver, stimulating and challenging their
vestibular system in a safe environment.
- These
babies may be more difficult to soothe or comfort; and meeting their needs
for increased sensory input can help them settle more easily.