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If you bottle feed a baby at all, you know that you're pretty much doing nothing else as long as baby is hungry, and if you need to do something with your hands, it can be tough.
Picture this...Instead of filling a plastic bottle with milk, you fill a plastic "bladder." The bladder connects to a comfortable
neck strap so that it rests in front of you on your chest. From the bottom of the bladder comes a tube that connects into something like a modified pacifier. It is free-standing like a pacifier, but with a tube delivering milk. I think the nipple part would work by gravity, same as a bottle.
Why make this product?
You could actually carry baby to another room with both hands while s/he continued to drink milk. You could sit with baby in your lap and type an e-mail or send a text with both hands. Things like that.
If you had a front-facing baby carrier, you could even go shopping with one of these bad boys.
To qualm theoretical fears, the bladders are washable and/or disposable, as well as the nipples and tubes, and the neck strap feels like a professional massage.
[First halfbakery post. Many more oddball ideas in store.]
Clarification
http://i.imgur.com/P0OX0.jpg [tatterdemalion, Jan 03 2010]
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Welcome to the HalfBakery, good post, looking forward to many more. [+] |
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so its not a breast then? surely baby deserves just a little peace & quiet during meals - quit multi-tasking for 15 minutes. |
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Not all parents have breasts, [po] ... |
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However you are right, baby feeding time probably
should engage a fair bit of your concentration. |
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men can lactate apparently or is that an urban myth? |
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I get quite disturbed to see so many parents chatting on their mobiles as they walk along with their buggies (even jogging - sheesh!) rather than chatting/singing/laughing with their children. |
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Men can indeed lactate, given proper stimulation and possibly a bit of prolactin if needed. |
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Any worries about creating too large a head at the nipple? |
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Great idea. Bakeable. Dad CAN lactate as-if with this invention.
Mom's through time have been multitasking ever since there was
more than one thing to do (always). |
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