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Abstract

An infant care apparatus is provided that includes a specially designed grommet in order to facilitate the introduction of wires and/or tubes through a wall in the infant care apparatus so that wires and/or tubes can be passed through the wall for use with the infant positioned within the infant apparatus and contained with the wall or walls. The grommet is located in one of the walls surrounding the infant and includes a slit formed in a flexible material and where the slit is oriented vertically. The flexible material has a plurality of spaced apart thickened ridges that create barriers to the ease of movement of the wires or tubes along the slit. The thickened ridges preferably are formed in pairs and extend outwardly bidirectionally from the slit and may be tapered inwardly in the direction toward the slit. Thus, a wire or tube may be slid vertically along the slit and located at a desired area between any of the thickened ridges and not interfere with other wires or tubes. Tubes and/or wire can thus be located at various vertical heights above the infant bed and will stay firmly in the desired position, but can be readily moved to another vertical position by a slightly higher exertion of force by the user to force the wire or tube past a pair of thickened ridges.

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