Novel warming and massaging bra for improved breast milk expression

新颖的加热和按摩文胸可改善母乳分泌

• 批准号: 10822849
• 负责人: Mooneyham Ashley
• 金额: $ 28.87万
• 依托单位: MOMEASE SOLUTIONS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-19 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10822849
• 关键词: Academy; Address; Age Months; American; Bottle feeding; Breast; Breast Feeding; Breastfed infant; Caregivers; Clinical; Data; Devices; Elements; Equation; Exclusive Breastfeeding; Feedback; Food; Freezing; Future; Goals; Hand; Health; Heating; Hour; Human; Human Milk; Immunologics; Individual; Infant; Intuition; Jaw; Lactation; Manuals; Marketing; Massage; Maternity leave; Measurement; Milk; Modeling; Mothers; Movement; Nipples; Nursing infant; Nutritional; Oral cavity; Output; Participant; Pediatrics; Performance; Phase; Physiological; Pump; Recommendation; Reporting; Silicon; Source; Suction; Surveys; Technology; Temperature; Testing; Therapeutic; United States; Woman; World Health Organization; breast massage; breast pump; commercialization; design; economic impact; experience; feeding; improved; individual response; interest; milk expression; novel; portability; pressure; pressure sensor; prototype; recruit; response; social media; therapeutically effective; usability; volunteer

PROJECT SUMMARY Breast milk is an unmatched bioactive source of nutritional, immunological, and neurodevelopmental benefits for infants that evolves as an infant grows to meet their unique health and nutritional needs. As such, breast milk is considered the clinical gold standard for infant feeding, and both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommend exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months of age. Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as giving no other food or drink than breast milk, which can be achieved by nursing infants at the breast, bottle feeding breast milk, or a combination of the two. At some point, 85% of breastfeeding mothers will use a breast pump (equating to 2.56 million new mothers every year), and a high proportion will continue regular use. A major limitation of the electric breast pump is that it singularly uses suction power to remove milk from a breast. This can result in only removing milk closest to the nipple. An infant, on the other hand, uses a combination of suction, the warmth of their mouths, and the movement of their jaw and hands against the breast to efficiently and completely remove milk from the breast. Therefore, breast pumps are missing two of the three key elements necessary for effective breast milk extraction. Momease Solutions released a customer discovery survey on social media and received over 1200 individual responses in 24 hours. A staggering 97% of responders reported challenges while using a breast pump, with top challenges including long, uncomfortable, and low-yield pumping sessions. Individually, manually warming or massaging the breasts while pumping has been shown to increase milk output by 42% and 48%, respectively. To date, no accessory exists that introduces warmth and positive pressure massage to the breast pump experience in a hands-free manner. To address this unmet need, Momease will seek proof-of-concept data for their warming and massaging bra through the following Phase I Aims—Aim 1. Design and develop novel hands-free warming and massaging bra, Aim 2: Test the bra for warming and massaging functionality, and Aim 3: Perform usability study to evaluate intuitive operability and acceptance. Ultimately, this is the first- step toward commercializing a technology that could make a substantial health and economic impact on the millions of mothers and infants who seek to breastfeed through 6 months of age and beyond.

项目摘要 母乳是营养，免疫和神经发育益处的无与伦比的生物活性来源 对于随着婴儿的发展而发展的婴儿，可以满足其独特的健康和营养需求。因此，乳房 牛奶被认为是婴儿喂养的临床黄金标准，而美国儿科学会 （AAP）和世界卫生组织（WHO）建议在6个月内进行独家母乳喂养 年龄。独家母乳喂养定义为除母乳外不提供其他食物或饮料，这可以是 由护士婴儿在乳房中喂养母乳或两者的组合。在某个 要点，有85％的母乳喂养母亲将使用奶奶泵（每年相当于256万新妈妈）， 很高的比例将继续定期使用。电动泵的主要限制是它奇异 使用惊喜能力从乳房中除去牛奶。这可能导致最接近乳头的牛奶。一个 另一方面，婴儿结合了假设，嘴的温暖和运动 他们的下巴和双手靠在乳房上，以有效并完全从乳房中清除牛奶。所以， 吸奶器缺少有效的母乳提取所需的三个关键要素中的两个。 Momease Solutions在社交媒体上发布了一项客户发现调查，并收到了1200多个个人 在24小时内做出反应。惊人的97％的响应者在使用吸奶器时报告了挑战， 最高的挑战，包括长，不舒服和低收益的抽水会议。单独，手动变暖 或在抽水时按摩乳房已显示将牛奶产量增加42％和48％， 迄今 免费的泵经验。为了满足这种未满足的需求，Momease将寻求概念证明 在以下一阶段的目标中，它们的变暖和按摩胸罩的数据 - AIM 1。设计和开发 新颖的免提变暖和按摩胸罩，AIM 2：测试胸罩的变暖和按摩功能， 目标3：执行可用性研究以评估直观的操作和接受。最终，这是第一个 迈向商业化一项可能对健康和经济产生重大影响的技术商业化 数以百万计的母亲和婴儿试图在6个月及以后进行母乳喂养。