Mothers of newborn babies often resort to formula milk due to a number of difficulties that arise from breastfeeding, namely the unknown amount of milk ingested during each feed. At present, a device that can reliably combat such challenge does not exist. This project aims to develop a novel device capable of detecting swallowing events, and estimate the amount ingested for each swallow, via a hardware/software package named InfaFeed.

The hardware has been designed and constructed to achieve the primary operations, being audio, pressure, motion and EMG detection, as well as Bluetooth connectivity to the software.

Accompanying the hardware is an Android-supported mobile application, ‘infaFeed’ that is still in the development phase. The mobile application was developed with the goal of providing a clean and learnable user interface, whilst also offering maximal functionality to the user. The most important functions implemented are the ability for the user to begin and stop recording by communicating to the microcontroller, to add, change and edit profiles and to analyze and playback previous recordings.