The Haberman Feeder (registered trademark) is a special bottle named after its inventor Mandy Haberman for babies with impaired ability to suck (eg due to cleft lip and palate or Mobius syndrome). The feed design is to simulate breastfeeding.
Video Haberman Feeder
Origin
Mandy Haberman's research included contacts with the British Cleft Lip and Lips Association, and the study of cineradiographs feeding infants, so she may better understand the mechanisms of eating. He especially noted the difference between bottle feeding (which mainly sucks) and breastfeeding (especially pumping).
Maps Haberman Feeder
How it works
The feed design allows the feeder to be activated by the tongue and gum pressure, mimicking the mechanics involved in breastfeeding, not by sucking. The one-way valve separates the nipple from the bottle. Before starting breastfeeding, air comes out of the nipple and is automatically replaced by breastmilk or formula through a valve. Milk can not flow back to the bottle and is replenished continuously when the baby is breastfed. The opening of the valve opening near the tip of the nipple will close the compression of the jaw so that the baby is not overwhelmed with breast milk. Stopping or reducing the flow of milk is controlled by the rotation of the nipple in the baby's mouth. Typically nipples are marked with lines showing zero flow, medium flow, and maximum flow. For babies who need help with their feeding efforts, the mother - or anyone who is breastfeeding the baby - can perform gentle pumping actions to the nipple.
The numbers in the cross section are listed below:
- Teat, this part is inserted into the baby's mouth.
- Teat, this section is used to gently squeeze the milk into the baby's mouth and to keep the pacifier filled with milk.
- Flexible valve sections. Milk dot can not flow back into the bottle, so when squeezed the flow of milk into the baby's mouth, at the same time milk is sucked into the dot
- Ringing to keep the pacifier and valve on the bottle.
- Standard size babybottle (only the top shown).
Patent information
UK Patent GB2169210 includes a feeder which was applied on December 11, 1985 and granted on January 5, 1989 [1].
External links
- The product page at mandyhaberman.com
- Children's Hospital University of Missouri, Pediatric Plastic Surgery instructions Haberman Feeder
- Seattle Craniofacial Team, feeding baby
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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