NIFTY Infant Feeding Cup

Still In Development Last Update: January 11, 2013

PATH has collaborated with the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Craniofacial Center and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana to develop the Neonatal Intuitive Feeding TechnologY (NIFTY) cup. The NIFTY cup is an inexpensive, easy to use, efficient prototype technology used to deliver breast milk or formula to infants that are unable to breastfeed. The cup is able to catch hand-expressed breast milk directly and feed the infant. NIFTY is intended to be used by caregivers, community health workers, and midwives using pictorial instructions as an aid for the already intuitive device. Currently, the developers are conducting an inventory of infant cup feeding options, determining product specifications, and creating a prototype.