Baby head pillow mattress pad

Abstract

A polyurethane foam mattress or pillow overlay for a mattress that prevents plagiocephaly by allowing a recess in a mattress pad or pillow for the Baby's head to protrude backwards while lying flat on its' back instead of lying against a flat surface. An over-mattress, foam mattress pad, or pillow, the support assembly comprising a shaped rubber foam cradle for a baby's head and/or baby's head and body covered with a mattress cover or pillowcase composed of comfortable quilted cloth material.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . An engineered foam pillow or mattress overlay for a baby mattress, the support assembly comprising: 
 A polyurethane foam pillow mattress cushion overlay with indented recessed body cavity depressions for the major parts of a baby's body or in the case of just the pillow, the baby's head. Drawing #1 shows the Baby Head Pillow Mattress Pad showing the baby's head and body recessed using the pad with recessed cutout portions of a mattress pad. Pediatricians currently recommend putting babies to sleep on their backs to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The purpose of the recessed portions in the foam mattress overlay is to prevent a baby's head from flattening out in the back when the baby is laid down on its' back thereby preventing the baby's head from flattening out in the back and looking like a square head otherwise known as positional plagiocephaly.    Using it as a mattress cushion it is comprised of polyurethane foam having an indention load deflection of 1 to 20 pounds, and being from about two to about four inches in thickness, and generally the same length and width as, but substantially thinner than, a conventional baby mattress. The mattress overlay is preferably sized to fit standard cribs, with a length of approximately 52 inches, a width of approximately 24 inches, and a thickness of approximately four inches. Variations of shortening the mattress pad and using just the head portion for a pillow could be any size that comfortably cradles the baby's head. Ordinarily the pad and the pillow would be used with a washable fabric cover. The cushion and the fabric cover could be portable.