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Good Health, Fitness & Hygiene
{{contributorFullName}} | 19-03-2018
NIFTY Feeding Cup is a reusable product for feeding breast milk to new-borns with breastfeeding difficulties.
It is a simple to use, easy to clean and culturally appropriate feeding solution which allows the infant to control the pace of feeding. NIFTY Feeding Cup has been developed and designed through a collaboration between the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s hospital, PATH and Laerdal Global Health.
The NIFTY feeding cup is designed by Laerdal in collaboration with PATH, University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital, a feeding cup for providing breast milk to newborns with breastfeeding difficulties. The NIFTY feeding cup is:
• Reusable, boilable and autoclavable.
• Calibrated from 5ml to 40ml, to monitor feeding.
• Made of silicone rubber material which is gentle against the mouth of the infant.
• Designed to control the pace of feeding through the reservoir at the tip of the cup for the infant to lap milk from.
• Convenient for the mother to express breastmilk directly into the cup.
A recent Lancet article reports that scaling up of breastfeeding to a near universal level could prevent 823,000 deaths annually. WHO and UNICEF recommends breast milk feeding using feeding cups to newborns with breastfeeding difficulties in low-resource settings. The NIFTY feeding cup is designed such that each feeding session allows the baby to intake the optimum amount of expressed breast milk at its own pace without breaks. The cup is designed so that the baby actively sucks on the reservoir of the cup thus preventing pouring into the baby’s mouth, further preventing chocking during the feed. The active sucking during the cup feeding paves way to transition to breast feeding.
NIFTY feeding cup is made of silicon rubber, is reusable and durable thus preventing accumulation of plastic waste in environment.
NIFTY feeding cup helps small babies grow thus, reducing the economic and social burden of preterm births and low birth weight.
Studies show each additional millilitre of breastmilk reduces non-NEC related NICU cost by $534. NIFTY feeding cup helps small babies’ intake of expressed breastmilk.
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