Babies

Naya Health, once a promising breast pump startup, now leaving customers in the dark

With their loud noises and hard plastic flanges, breast pumps are the bane of many a new mother’s existence. Founded in 2013, Naya Health is one of the most notable tech startups working on a better

Precious uses artificial intelligence to help parents figure out what to do with all their baby photos

While pregnant, I imagined I’d spend maternity leave making elegant baby albums with detailed captions each month. That didn’t happen and now I have thousands of baby photos on my phone a

Babierge might just be the answer to your baby gear travel nightmares

Traveling with a baby for the holidays? First you've got your own gear to worry about, then a stroller, something for the baby to sleep in, a baby carrier, toys, snacks, a diaper bag, possibly a car s

Smilo’s products are designed to be healthy for babies and easy on parents’ eyes

For a basic baby item, picking the right pacifier is surprisingly daunting. Many new parents have no idea how many different pacifiers are on the market until they are staring bleary-eyed at store she

How high-tech breast pumps help new mothers reclaim their time

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Baby tech draws seed funding and a few big rounds

Becoming a parent brings drastic change in the household budget. As such, new and expectant parents are a favored demographic among marketers. Startup founders and their backers have also taken an int

Monit’s smart diaper sensor lets parents avoid the sniff test

New parents are faced with many conundrums and one of the most nerve-wracking is how to check a diaper without waking a sleeping baby. Korean startup Monit’s new Bluetooth sensor wants to make sniff

Finally, a robot crib from Yves Behar

Yves Behar, designer of many round-edged objects, has at last turned his attention to the piece of furniture rated "most restful" by babies: the crib. His robotic, Wi-Fi-enabled creation, called Snoo,

Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie, Raises $7 Million Series A

Owlet, the teenie tiny bootie that goes on babies and informs you if they've stopped breathing, has raised a $7 million A round, adding some solid numbers to their already impressive $1.85 million see

Milk Nanny Automatically Makes A Refreshing Bottle Of Formula For Baby

As a parent I understand that gadgets like the Milk Nanny will be forgotten – like the Diaper Genie and the no-pacifier rule – five months into the severe sleep-deprivation experiment that

Please And Carrots Debuts Subscription-Based Toys, Expert Advice For New Parents

Busy parents who don’t have the time to shop for the best developmentally-appropriate and educationally-focused toys for their little ones now have a new option. A company called Please and Car

Tiggly, An iPad Learning Toy For Babies And Toddlers, Raises Series A

Tiggly, an educational app designed for iPad's youngest users - babies! (oh, and toddlers, too) - has raised a Series A round of funding led by Habermaass GmbH, a Germany-based early play and learning

Starfish Aims To Prevent Accidental Heatstroke Deaths By Alerting Parents To Children Left In Cars

New, first-time parents are terrified that they're going to somehow accidentally hurt their baby - they will drop the child, or hit that weird soft spot on the baby's head. Or maybe they'll forget to

Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day

Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. But how is a poor parent to know how much the wee ones drank, how fresh the formula was, and how much more they should imbibe before g

This Printer Can Make A Real Teddy Bear In A Few Hours

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have created a 3D printer that can output a real, cuddly teddy bear in a few hours, thereby putting Santa's elves out of business. The machine uses s

Target Launches Its First Subscription-Based E-Commerce Service, Focus For Now Is Baby-Care Items

As Amazon's online business continues to cut into traditional retailers' revenues, Target today makes a move to fight back. The Minneapolis-headquartered retailer has just launched a pilot program fo

BabyWatch Health Tracker Lets Expecting Mothers Share Their Babies’ Heartbeats

As evidenced by sonogram photos posted to Facebook and the apparent popularity of “ultrasound parties,” pregnancy is a time ripe for sharing. A new startup called BabyWatch is taking those

Medtech Startup Embrace Her Health Helps Women Track Their Pregnancies

Among the crowd showing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley was Embrace Her Health, a two-year-old company at work on a suite of maternity apps that aim to enable women to manage their pre- an

BabyList, A Universal Baby Registry Built By An Ex-Amazon Developer & Mom, Raises $650K

<a target="_blank" href="http://babyli.st/">BabyList</a>, the online universal baby registry which lets couples request unconventional items - like diaper service subscriptions, for example - in addit

The Weekly Good: Embrace Wants To Give All Infants An Equal Chance For A Healthy Life

Disruption comes in all shapes and sizes, and benefits people of all shapes and sizes. When you think about global entrepreneurs solving hard problems, you might not think about creating hardware prod
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