{"id":15292,"date":"2019-11-15T02:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=287135"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","slug":"woman-with-double-mastectomy-invents-breastfeeding-simulator-for-breast-cancer-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/woman-with-double-mastectomy-invents-breastfeeding-simulator-for-breast-cancer-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman With Double Mastectomy Invents Breastfeeding Simulator For Breast Cancer Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">A mom-to-be from Brooklyn, New York, invented a breastfeeding simulator after she found out she would not be able to breastfeed her own child.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">At the age of 27, Kimberly Meikle was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIf I could just find 20 families that feel fulfilled through this invention, I feel like I\u2019ve done my job,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/story\/41306954\/bk-woman-invents-breastfeeding-simulator-for-breast-cancer-survivors\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> Meikle, inventor of \u201cOur Bonding Buddy.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The Our Bonding Buddy is a breastfeeding simulator to help survivors like her and other parents.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287181\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/breastfeeding-simulator\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287181 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brast.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brast.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brast-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brast-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brast-768x403.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">PHOTO: NEWS 12<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIt works all by gravity. It has a tube, the clamp and then the nipple portion here that allows the milk to flow to the tip just like a regular bottle,\u201d says Meikle.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cLGBTQ communities, someone who is going through diabetes, HIV, moms who want to transition from breast to bottle, dads sometimes because they do get jealous,\u201d says Meikle.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Meikle is trying to secure an investment of $25,000 so she can start the manufacturing process. To begin, she wants to manufacture 500 devices with a suggested retail price of only $39.99.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate thing to have breast cancer, but I would not change a thing of what I\u2019ve been through,\u201d says Meikle.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/breastfeeding-simulator\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mom-to-be from Brooklyn, New York, invented a breastfeeding simulator after she found out she would not be able to breastfeed her own child.At the age of 27, Kimberly Meikle was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy.\u201cIf I could just find 20 families that feel fulfilled through this invention, I feel like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44391,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions\/44391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}