Infant Warmer

Embrace has developed an innovative, low cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies. The design looks like a miniature sleeping bag that incorporates a phase change material, which stays at a constant temperature for up to 6 hours. This low-cost solution maintains premature and low birth weight babies' body temperature to help them survive and thrive.

The AccuTemp Heater warms the WarmPak to 98.6F, a temperature critical to a child’s survival. This version of the product requires access to an AC power source. However, it can also be run off of a generator or any alternate AC power source.  

The WarmPak absorbs heat from the AccuTemp Heater, and slowly releases this heat over a period of time to the newborn, when placed in the BabyWrap. No electricity comes in contact with the baby.

The BabyWrap traps the heat from the WarmPak and provides a warm, insulating microclimate to the newborn. The BabyWrap has been engineered to minimize heat loss from the WarmPak to the surroundings, thus ensuring that the WarmPak stays effective for a long time.

This design could save thousands of lives of vulnerable babies in developing countries. Over 20 million low-birth-weight and premature babies are born every year around the world, and over 4 million die within their first month of life. Temperature regulation is a key problem among many of these infants.  Embrace has developed an infant warmer that costs a fraction of the price of existing solutions, and that functions without a continuous supply of electricity.

By providing a low-cost and appropriately-designed alternative to traditional incubators, costs to the health-care system will be reduced. Also by providing affordable and accessible solutions to prevent hypothermia, these Infant Warmers will impact the lives of babies all over the world.

To promote this scheme, Embrace should donate their Infant Warmers to populations in need such as Somalia and India. To do so they could raise funding from campaigns and sponsorships or establish partnerships with NGO's who are serving the target markets.

They could also provide free training and education programs to address the root causes of low birth weight and other maternal/child health issues to raise awareness of the program and hopefully encourage sponsorship.