The new Neotech Bridge Breastfeeding Assistance Device is designed to help mothers worldwide with breastfeeding immediately after childbirth. Featuring cutting-edge liquid silicone rubber (LSR) molding from Silcotech, a global leader in the LSR molding industry, thereâs no other product like the Neotech Bridge on the market.
The Bridge Kit features a thin, silicone nipple cover, with a built-in channel that attaches to a syringe. Silcotech drew on its years of experience in baby feeding products, including baby nursing shields, to mold this revolutionary product.
The Bridge was created by a board-certified lactation consultant to help mothers who experience breastfeeding challenges, including difficulty with infant feeding at the breast, pain, and milk quantity. The inventors came to Silcotech with their idea for the Bridge, which was a nipple shield with an integrated supplementary feeding tube. There was not a product on the market that existed with this fully integrated tube and syringe connection.
After thousands of parts were molded using the prototype tooling, a 103-class mold was quoted by Silcotech to replace the original 105 aluminum mold. Sealing of the fluid flow channel inside the nipple shield was still kept to a manual process.
Silcotech decided to support the program as volumes were growing by investing in the design and building a 2-cavity âSealingâ tool, which was an insert over-mold in which two breast shields were inserted and the fluid channel was sealed in a full injection molding process.
Neotech Products acquired the product line and technology from the original inventors and immediately planned to scale up production by purchasing a 101-class mold that was fully automated in a 2+2 two cavity, two-shot design that molded breast shields with tubes, then sealed the internal flow channel in one process.
The Neotech Bridge is a silicone nipple cover with a built-in channel that attaches to a syringe filled with breastmilk or formula. The syringe allows mothers to control the amount and flow to keep the baby at the breast, feeding continuously which help to further promote natural milk production.
