Property News · June 9, 2012

A working life: the inventor


When Mandy Haberman had a baby with feeding difficulties, she designed a solution. From that came more inventions and her own companyMandy Haberman became an inventor by accident. Her third child, Emily, was born with Stickler syndrome, a genetic condition which often causes feeding problems: with conventional medical devices failing to help, she decided to work on a solution.Symptoms of Stickler syndrome frequently include a cleft palate and a tongue too large for the space formed by an underdeveloped lower jaw: this makes sucking very difficult for babies. “Emily had terrible problems with feeding and ended up being fed with a naso-gastric tube,” Haberman says. “It was hell. She was failing to grow and at one stage the hospital said she wasn’t going to survive,” she says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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