About breast-feeding
Sometimes, breastfeeding doesn’t work, and other times, it’s never an option. The baby will instead be given breast milk, pumped from the mother, or infant formula. It’s important not to feel guilty if you can’t, or don’t want to, breastfeed. How good a parent you are, does not depend on whether you breastfeed or not. The most important thing is that you and your baby are feeling well.
When you don’t want to breastfeed?
There can be many reasons to you choose not to breastfeed. Here are a few examples:
You might have difficult experiences from breastfeeding in the past. Breastfeeding might feel too demanding. You want to share feeding with your partner. You might have trouble that causes you pain while breastfeeding, eg. sore nipples, breast congestion, breast abscess or nipple thrush.
Some of us can’t choose to breastfeed or not. The baby might be premature or too ill to suck. Some can’t breastfeed due to medical or psychological reasons. Sometimes, breastfeeding simply doesn’t work, no matter how hard you try. Despite all the advice that is given, some reaches the decision that it’s too difficult to continue breastfeeding. It’s common to feel sad when you want to breastfeed but can’t. It’s important to get support in these situations, both from health care and your surroundings.
Your choice must be respected
Herobility is a safe choice
Whether you choose to bottle-feed from the onset, or when you gradually stop breastfeeding, you can be sure that Herobility’s baby bottle is a great first choice. Parents around the world recommend our baby bottle to other parents, especially due to the high acceptance rate among babies. Babies usually accepts our bottle on the first try.
Put a few drops of breast milk or formula on the nipple to make the baby understand that there is food in the bottle. Tickle the baby’s upper lip with the nipple and wait for the baby to open their mouth before giving the bottle. Wait till the baby is hungry. A baby’s cry does not always mean it’s hungry. Try to walk around with your baby while feeding and rocking gently. Make sure you are in a quiet and peaceful environment so that your baby can focus on eating. Feed your baby when they have just woken up, that way they will not be too susceptible of surrounding impressions. Test several times a day for a longer period. Contact your local pediatric center or midwife if you need consultation.
♥ Best of luck, Team Herobility
Advantages of the materials
Bioplastic
Our bioplastic is specifically called HDPE and is made from the starch of the sugarcane plant. As sugarcane grows, it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, resulting in a much smaller carbon footprint than regular plastic.
Bioplastic can be recycled, however, the technology is not available everywhere. Contact your local recycling center if you are wondering where to put the bioplastic parts when you recycle them.
Glass
The great advantage of glass is that it is safe, durable, and easily recyclable, many times over. In addition, it is easy to clean and does not discolor. To recycle your Herobility glass products, simply place them in glass recycling.
Silicone
A good alternative to plastic that lasts longer and does not lose its properties over time. Unlike, for example, latex or natural rubber, very few people are allergic to silicone, which is considered safe enough for use in medical technology. Ask your recycling center how best to recycle silicone.
Steel
Stainless steel is a material that lasts a very long time, does not rust or corrode, and can be recycled an infinite number of times. Sort as metal scrap.
The design of products
No material or production method in the world can justify developing products that are not used. We have a long checklist to ensure that the products we launch are truly useful and are easy to reuse and recycle. In summary, all our products are:
Safe for your child.
Developed in a way that supports your child's development. Developed to make life easier for you as a parent.
We design products with interchangeable parts to extend the lifespan of each product. For us, it is important that we design products without unnecessary details and where every function is well-justified.
Product Care and Use
Our goal is for you to get as much use and enjoyment out of each product as possible before recycling. Much of our communication therefore focuses on explaining how to use your Herobility products in different ways. But also how to care for your products so that they last as long as possible, to reduce consumption at a global level.
NOTE! Some products have a recommended lifespan to meet international safety standards for baby products. For example: pacifiers and bottle nipples have a recommended lifespan of two months from first to last use. Other products are easier to pass on to your friends or save if you are expecting siblings.
Our heroes
A part of our proceeds will always go to projects and charities that fight for children's rights and that help take care of our planet. Herobility believes that everyone can, and should, do something to try to make our world a better place.
Trees for the future
Herobility also supports Trees for the Future. Their mission is to help our planet while simultaneously stopping hunger and poverty for farmers and their families. Together, we plant trees in Africa to reduce CO2 footprints and help nature and society along the way.