US 12,279,908 B2
Labor garment facilitating administration of an epidural and maintaining monitoring transducers in place
A. NIsar Akbar, Mequon, WI (US)
Filed by A. NIsar Akbar, Mequon, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/456,640.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/199,524, filed on Jan. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0211343 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A41B 9/14 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/4227 (2013.01) [A41B 9/14 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment adapted to be worn by a woman in labor to hold one or more monitoring transducers in place during the course of labor and delivery comprising a stretchable, crotchless, unitary one piece fabric body free of straps bounded by an upper edge and a lower edge with said edges and the material between them entirely encircling the torso of the woman including her belly above her crotch area, said edges and the material between them bounding an aperture on a back side which is adapted to be centered over the lumbar spine to allow access to the area between L2 and S1 of her lumbar spine;
wherein the garment has a pouch that is adapted to substantially encompass and substantially cover the entire surface of the belly such that it receives and supports the belly and is located on the opposite side of the garment from the aperture.