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New Japanese Device Makes Breastfeeding Possible To Fathers
Despite the endless love and joy, being new parents is extremely difficult and can be overwhelming when a newborn needs all the time and attention parents can give. In these life-challenging circumstances, they forget about self-care, sleep, food and social life. Fathers are now taking up more childcare chores, so that the emotional and physical burden of such extreme life change is shared rather than falling only on the mother’s shoulders. And even if both parents try to support each other by dividing their responsibilities equally, some things, like giving birth and breastfeeding, are assigned by nature. But it’s 2019, and new technologies are ready to challenge this theory.
Japanese company Dentsu presented a device that promises to change the future of nursing for fathers who want to share all the childcare tasks and form a special bond with the child from an early age. “Father’s Nursing Assistant” debuted in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival earlier this month and it allows men to breastfeed children.
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An intriguing device is basically a wearable milk tank in the shape of a woman’s breasts. One of the breasts contains milk or formula and the other – a breastfeeding system with a silicone nipple, enabling a father-infant contact similar to one that child has with its mother. Father’s Nursing Assistant is heated and vibrates to induce sleep and has sensors that track child’s breastfeeding and sleeping behavior and transmit the data to an app on your smartphone.
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Dentsu is a cross-functional organization whose mission is to utilize a variety of methods, technologies and experiences to change the feelings and behaviors of people living in the digital age. With Father’s Nursing Assistant, which was developed with the help of pediatricians and babysitters, the company wants to encourage fathers to take an active part in stressful childrearing usually reserved for mothers and increase the amount of sleep infants get.
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“The amount of time infants in Japan spend sleeping is shorter compared to the rest of the world. Much of the parental stress and difficulties surrounding childrearing are related to feeding and sleeping, and generally the rate of participation by fathers tends to be low. Breastfeeding is also effective at helping the parent sleep-a benefit that is currently skewed toward women. Focusing on breastfeeding, we aim to decrease the amount of burden on mothers and increase the amount of time infants sleep by enabling fathers to breastfeed,” – Dentsu states in a press release.
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The Father’s Nursing Assistant is still in the concept stage, but the innovation has already sparked hot discussions on whether it’s stupid or actually genius.
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Hans 5 years ago
Frankly, why? There always will be a difference between a breast and a bottle, however that bottle might be formed. For purpose of bonding, a baby sling or a sling-inspired carrier will perfectly do the trick. In fact, this way both parents can offer warmth and comfort: the mother while breastfeeding, and, while she relaxed, the father from carrying the small one on his body. This way, he even can get chores done! (I know many people consider a sling to be silly but most babies just feel so very comfortable in them...and it is even good for their hips. And, yes, you really can do almost all house work and office jobs while the small one snoozes or takes a peek.)
H E R N A N D E Z 5 years ago
babies know the difference from human skin and plastic, no matter how soft the plastic is.
Melissa Nunya 5 years ago
I think part of the connection is holding them close and making eye contact and it would work for that
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Jo Choto 5 years ago
Anybody who thinks that a cold, hard plastic protuberance stuck on a man is an equivalent to a human female breast is an idiot. Only a man could have come up with that nonsense. A father can hold a baby, interact with a baby, with or without feeding it, and form a bond.
MK Unicorn (MAGGIE) 5 years ago
It's not cold, it's heated. And it vibrates. (fancy fancy)
Load More Replies... Hans 5 years ago
Frankly, why? There always will be a difference between a breast and a bottle, however that bottle might be formed. For purpose of bonding, a baby sling or a sling-inspired carrier will perfectly do the trick. In fact, this way both parents can offer warmth and comfort: the mother while breastfeeding, and, while she relaxed, the father from carrying the small one on his body. This way, he even can get chores done! (I know many people consider a sling to be silly but most babies just feel so very comfortable in them...and it is even good for their hips. And, yes, you really can do almost all house work and office jobs while the small one snoozes or takes a peek.)
H E R N A N D E Z 5 years ago
babies know the difference from human skin and plastic, no matter how soft the plastic is.
Melissa Nunya 5 years ago
I think part of the connection is holding them close and making eye contact and it would work for that
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 5 years ago
Anybody who thinks that a cold, hard plastic protuberance stuck on a man is an equivalent to a human female breast is an idiot. Only a man could have come up with that nonsense. A father can hold a baby, interact with a baby, with or without feeding it, and form a bond.
MK Unicorn (MAGGIE) 5 years ago
It's not cold, it's heated. And it vibrates. (fancy fancy)
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