Today a news story was published with a headline about nursing pillows being associated with infant deaths. This is a difficult statistic to hear and read. Any infant death is tragic and is deeply upsetting. The story reported that most of the incidents were related to unsafe sleep environments. For perspective, last month at Safe [...]
Welcome back to Meet our Members, a series where we sit down with the individuals and organizations that make up our devoted Alliance. This week we're sharing an interview with member, The Boppy Company, manufacturer of products from pregnancy through the first year of baby's life. We're showcasing this storied organizations' work in this [...]
Welcome back to Meet our Members, a series where we sit down with the individuals and organizations that make up our devoted Alliance. This week we're sharing an interview with member, Theresa Joseph, to showcase work her work in this field, connection to the cause and reasoning for joining BFIDSA. 1.Tell us a [...]
Welcome back to Meet our Members, a series where we sit down with the individuals and organizations that make up our devoted Alliance. This week we're sharing an interview with member, Melisa Riehl, President and General Manager of Perspective Enterprises, to showcase work her work in this field, connection to the cause and reasoning [...]
Introducing Meet our Members, a series where we sit down with the individuals and organizations that make up our devoted Alliance. Each week we'll share a Q&A interview with one of our members to highlight their work in this field, connection to the cause and reasoning for joining BFIDSA. We're kicking off this [...]
We’ve spoken a lot about the benefits of feeding supports, particularly for breastfeeding moms and babies. This implies there are unintended consequences if their availability were to be limited. Since we have yet to dig into our thinking here, let’s take another look at why feeding support products are so important, and what might [...]
Nursing pillows are loved by parents and caregivers, on the top of baby registry lists, and recognized by industry and regulators. These products have been on the market for decades and the name has significant equity built up with consumers and in retail environments. But reality is that the term “pillow” given to [...]
After receiving questions time and again from regulators, Members of Congress, parents, caregivers, and even those in the juvenile products industry, we want to take the opportunity to share important distinctions between two popular product categories: infant feeding supports and infant loungers. Given the confusion we have seen in the market, we will focus [...]
The ASTM Infant Feeding Support Task Group on Warnings is scheduled to meet on Monday, August 15, 2022, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET. The focus of the meeting will be potential warning requirements to be included in the proposed voluntary standard for infant feeding support products. We encourage anyone interested in this [...]
New nursing pillows are used for breastfeeding at least 2.5 million times every day. That’s 919 million times a year, according to recent market research. What is even more remarkable is that this estimate does not account for nursing pillows used for subsequent births or passed on to friends, family or donated. The [...]
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