I took a look at that site...gag with me with a fork and hurry!

Here is my letter to them...

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You have got to be joking.  It will be "little wonder" that some baby
doesn't choke and die from use of your product.  Regardless of what is in
the bottle, whether it be ABM (Artificial Baby Milk) or EBM (Expressed
Breast Milk) or some other fluid, bottle propping is never safe under any
circumstances.  People who use your product are using it out of ignorance,
and do not realize the risk they are putting their precious infants at.

If a mother wants a free hand while feeding her infant she should try
Breastfeeding.  Even with twins, once the babies are older, she may very
well be able to have both hands free while the babies are nursing.  Many is
the time I have let my son nurse and, have not had to use both hands or even
one to support him and he can nurse just fine.  Plus, if he wants to stop
nursing he can at any time by unlatching and looking away.  Babies subjected
to your product are forced to lay there, helpless to get away from the
bottle, and must continue to suck in order to try and not choke on the
liquid coming into their mouths, or will close their airway for a moment of
rest just to find that they now have too much liquid in their mouths to try
and open their airway to swallow - this leads to choking, possible pneumonia
from the inhalation of ABM or some liquid other than breastmilk and possible
death.

Also, have you noticed the picture you use?  The mother looks disinterested
in the baby, more interested in the magazine she is reading, and the baby is
listless and certainly not happy to have that bottle stuck in his mouth.
This is not a very good picture with which to demonstrate your product, but
then again, a savvy parent will see this and realize this is NOT what they want.

My question for people who design these types products is this:

Why is it so important to convince new mothers that they need to have hands
free to do all these other things rather than convincing new mothers that
what they really need is more time to spend with their baby, interacting
with him/her while breastfeeding (or bottle feeding) and to enjoy the baby
right now.  Time really flies and before you know it your child is grown up
and out of the house.

If a new mother needs an extra hand, breastfeeding offers that.  If she has
things that need to get done around the house, that is where her significant
other, family and friends come in.  Products such as this ought to be banned
for safety violations and the potential to kill, not hailed as some great
mother's helper.

As far as your patent is concerned, I suggest throwing it in the trash.  It
won't do you a bit of good when some grieving family sues you for the death
of their infant due to your product.

A wise woman I know writes:  -We have 18 years to teach our children
independence.  Why try to do it all in the first year?-

Your product is another pthetic example of trying to make a child
independent long before it is healthy to do so.  I hope your product sells
poorly, and I hope that you will see the light and realize that what you
thought was a good idea, really is not.

Janet E. Simpson, CLE