Skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding are extremely beneficial practices during the beginning of a newborn’s life promoting proper emotional and physical development. In order to accomplish both of these tasks simultaneously it is necessary create a hands-free support of the baby that will offer a parent range of motion to perform simple tasks.

Our main goal is to develop a garment in conjunction with Strong Memorial Hospital that will provide skin-to-skin contact between a NICU baby and parent for an allotted period of time. The device will be easily removable and non-restrictive in nature encouraging interaction with the infant and activities such as pumping breast milk while allowing for the baby to be connected to vital monitoring.

Click Here to view the Project Readiness Package

Project Sponsor

Project Name

Skin-to-Skin Baby Sling Garment for use in NICU

Project Number

P19025

Project Family

Medical Devices

Start Term

Fall 2018 (2181)

End Term

Spring 2019 (2185)

Faculty Guide

Don Pophal

Primary Customer

Casey Rosen-Carole, M.D., M.P.H., M.Ed

Sponsor

University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)

Planning & Execution

Project Photos and Videos

Imagine RIT

Gate Reviews

Problem Definition

Systems Design

Preliminary Detailed Design

Detailed Design

Build & Test Prep

Subsystem Build & Test

Integrated System Build & Test

Customer Handoff & Final Project Documentation (Verification & Validation)

PRP

Customer Requirements

Engineering Requirements

Project Plan

Risk Management

Financials

Use Cases

Benchmarking

Functional Decomposition

Morphological Chart

Concept Selection

BOM

Drawings

Feasibility Test Results

Mockups

Test Fixtures

Prototyping

Test Plans

Analysis Results

Simulations

Test Results

Design Review Documents

Technical Paper

Poster

Imagine RIT Exhibit