How It Works
Designed Around the Tube. Built for the Child.
TubeWear™ and LineWear™ solve a problem every caregiver of a medically complex child knows well: getting to the tube, port, or line means undressing the child. Every time. PediaTech Apparel™ eliminates that entirely.
See the Difference
Ordinary clothing
1. Lift your child.
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2. Turn them to reach the back or a sleeve.
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3. Thread arms through sleeves, past the line.
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4. Disturb the line or tube, every time you need access.
PediaTech Apparel™
1. Lay the garment open and flat.
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2. Place your child on top of it.
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3. Fasten the sides. Nothing over the head.
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4. Access the site through the pouch or sleeve, without undressing.
The PediaPouch™
The PediaPouch is the interior pocket at the heart of every PediaTech garment. It holds what would otherwise dangle — gathered against the body, under the fabric, out of reach of small hands and away from bedding.
It is lined with moisture-resistant fabric. This is the part most adaptive clothing leaves out. Tube sites leak. Dressings seep. Connections drip. A plain cotton pocket absorbs all of it and holds it against the skin. The PediaPouch lining keeps drainage off the cotton and off your child, and wipes out rather than soaking through — which means fewer full outfit changes in a day that already has enough of them.
In TubeWear, the PediaPouch sits over the abdomen, positioned directly at the G or J tube site. Extension tubing rests inside it. A soft snap-closure flap opens for feedings, site checks, and dressing changes — then closes securely when care is complete.
In LineWear, the PediaPouch sits at the sternum for central line management. Lumens rest inside, gathered close to the body and away from small hands. The same snap-closure flap system opens for dressing changes and site access, then closes cleanly.
RoutePoints™
Containing the line at the site is half the problem. The other half is the run between the child and the pump — the length that catches on a crib rail, a car seat buckle, or the edge of a changing table.
RoutePoints™ are single snaps at the shoulder and the lower back that guide tubing or monitor leads down and away from the front of the body. They close loosely around the line to direct it. A line routed behind a child is a line that is harder to find and harder to snag.
The line enters at the lower back, runs up the side, and passes under the shoulder. Both tabs guide it.
Loose tubing is also what drags a tube opening out of position over the course of a day — why feeding tube clothing shifts.
Dual Arm Access™
Both TubeWear and LineWear include Dual Arm Access™ — a soft snap opening running along the inner bend of each sleeve. It gives caregivers and clinicians clean access to the arm for peripheral IV lines, PICC lines, blood draws, and pulse oximetry — without pushing a sleeve up over a dressing or disturbing the child. No threading. No disruption.
Both sleeves open, not one. A line placed on either arm is reachable without deciding in advance which side a child will be accessed from, and without turning a child to get to the other arm.
Getting Dressed
Every PediaTech Apparel garment opens completely flat. Lay the garment open on a flat surface, lay your child on top of it, bring the sides up, and fasten the snaps. No lifting and threading arms through sleeves. No pulling anything over the head. No disturbing lines or tubes during the process.
What These Garments Are
TubeWear™ and LineWear™ are textile garments rather than medical devices. They are clothing, made to support the care your team has already prescribed and to make an ordinary day easier. Because they are textiles, no prescription and no prior authorization are involved — a family can simply buy one.
The moisture-resistant lining is a fabric property rather than a barrier system: it keeps drainage off the cotton and wipes clean. The dressings and site care your team prescribed stay exactly as they are. RoutePoints™ direct a line down and away from the front of the body, and securing a tube or line stays with the method your care team taught you.
Metal-free is a property of the garment. Every garment uses resin snaps throughout. For an MRI, CT or X-ray, imaging staff decide what a patient wears, and their instruction governs.
All garments are 100% pre-shrunk cotton, machine washable, and tumble dry safe.
Choosing the Right Product
If your child has a G tube or J tube — choose TubeWear™.
If your child has a central line — choose LineWear™.
Both lines include the PediaPouch™, RoutePoints™, and Dual Arm Access™, and both come as gowns in Newborn through 12M and bodysuits in 6M through 5T, in Calm Mint Edition and Sky Lullaby Edition.
Not sure which is right for your child? Email hello@pediatechapparel.com and we will help you choose. Describe the placement and we will tell you which garment works — or tell you honestly if neither does.