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A nurse at the forefront of the fight against childhood obesity has come up with a device that would encourage parents to spend more time on the baby's tummy.
Ainat Koren, a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, came up with the idea after studying the relationship between tummy time and weight gain in infants, according to a post at MIT Technology Review.
"Our findings were illuminating, suggesting that strategic positioning and ample tummy time not only fostered infant motor development but also had the potential to moderate rapid weight gaina significant contributor to childhood overweight and obesity," she writes.
Koren came up with the idea for a device that would encourage parents to spend more time on the baby's tummy while the infant is awake, all while the infant is supervised by an adult, according to her post at MIT Technology Review.
The idea is that the device would encourage parents to spend more time on the baby's tummy, which, in turn, would lead to less weight gain.
The device would also allow parents to track how much time they spend on the baby's tummy while the infant is awake, according to Koren's post at MIT Technology Review.
The idea has already received funding from the American Nurses Association and will be tested in a
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