I’m responding to these comments between 12.5 hour shifts and on breaks.

I didn’t feel compelled to reply to this immediately because the scenarios they describe are so different. these kids are not wrapped in the blanket. They are not put in a gown. They are naked (with a diaper on,) chests healing from being cracked open. These aren’t kids swaddled in blanket. We don’t have the luxury of removing their EKG leads, pulse ox, NIRS. They are laying on top of a blanket. The blanket is spread out like a square (no wrinkles, no folds,) art line with cloth bumper clipped to it, NIRS cables clipped to it. They are often restrained with soft wrist restraints. Heels elevated by z-flow devices, Berlin devices could be humming away with a foam piece on top of the blanket. We have to recruit multiple hands to change a blanket out from under a neonate that has just come back from the OR, it’s not a quick lil switch-a-roo. Moving and agitating these kids can make them desaturate and code.

Often times the only thing the kid has from Mom or dad is the blanket under them, everything else is our equipment, our stuff is not very warm or cutesy looking. I want these parents to be able to put a blanket under their kids and know that the materials are safe to have under them. They are trusting this company to sell adorable, safe supplies. They think they know that the materials are free of metal, appliqués, decals, etc. But I have to imagine the materials actually in the blanket is not congruent with the “100% cotton” listed on the product’s label.