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Measuring milk intake for nursing infants

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Create a non-intrusive device that measures milk flow out of the breast.

Project Overview

Feeding intake is an important health and wellness metric in the first few months of life. Bottle feeding allows for clarity on babies' milk intake, allowing parents to ensure that their babies are not overfed or underfed. However, the main solution for measuring milk intake in nursing infants who do not or will not accept a bottle is a weighted feed, which requires an expensive at-home sensitive scale, or an in-person visit to a lactation consultant. Designs that allow for nursing mothers to conveniently measure how much milk their babies get during breastfeeding reduce the possibility of overfeeding. The purpose of this project is to bridge this gap through a design of a non-intrusive measuring device that can be inserted or attached to nursing underclothes to give an accurate estimate of the amount of the milk babies consume in each feed.

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Team photo: Left to right: Audrey Zeller, Milla Laskosky, Emily Schell, Addison Schwenn-Hollar, Soheni Dutta, Madeline Paradis
Team photo: Left to right: Audrey Zeller, Milla Laskosky, Emily Schell, Addison Schwenn-Hollar, Soheni Dutta, Madeline Paradis

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