Health Through Innovation
Umix believes healthy feeding is critical to infant development. We research and create products that provide your child the healthiest bottle-feeding experience on the market today. Our popular Umix Travel Bottle minimizes formula spoilage and our innovative Second Nature line of baby bottles revolutionizes infant feeding by simulating natural breast-feeding. Umix products, embraced by moms and the medical community, can be found at your favorite retailer. *
(*Please note, as our product line has grown, we've enlisted major distributors for each item. To find out where to purchase bottles and for other customer service issues, please consult the websites listed below.)
You may already be familiar with our first product, a two-chamber baby bottle for travel know as the Umix Travel Bottle, created more than 10 years ago. This bottle keeps infant formula from spoiling throughout the day. Carrying around bottles for baby is difficult; because bacteria begin to grow the 
moment formula is mixed with water and continues to multiply rapidly at room temperature. (The Food and Drug Administration recommends that mixed formula be disposed of within one hour). To slow spoilage, some parents carry formula in ice chests and warm the bottles at feeding time. Others carry formula, water and bottles separately and combine a serving at feeding time. The Umix Travel Bottle has a patented two-chamber design that stores powdered formula separate from the water. Parents can prepare bottles ahead of time and carry them without the worry of spoilage. The bottle is constructed so that, at an angle, it is closed; formula and water stored separately. Just by straightening the bottle, the formula and water mix and are ready for feeding! When introduced, the Umix Travel Bottle was an instant hit nationwide. Distribution went worldwide in the first year. The bottle is now distributed by Sunshine Kids Juvenile Products, a company with many innovative products in the infant travel market. You can find them at http://www.skjp.com.
The same two-chamber concept is used in our adult NutriBottle for powdered supplement drinks. It is distributed by the well-known health and sports product company Nautilus. You can find the NutriBottle in the nutrition section of their Health & Fitness Catalog at http://www.nautilus.com/. We are continuing to develop two-chamber applications for other products that spoil.
After some research, we conceived the Second Nature bottle to assist Mother Nature. This bottle functions similarly to mother's breast in order to effectively supplement breastfeeding. Proper suckling action is required by infants to extract milk during breastfeeding. This suckling action occurs when baby latches to the areola portion of the breast past the nipple. The gums compress the milk sinuses, and the tongue is located over the lower gum, its motion stripping the milk. The baby sucks the areola, not the nipple, to gather the milk from the pores. When baby needs a rest, suckling stops and milk no longer flows. Before Second Nature, all bottles were designed with a hole at the end of the nipple that was always open. This allowed milk to flow whether baby was trying to extract milk or not. In these bottles, the milk flowed without any suckling action, all baby was required to do was swallow. Proper latching and suckling were no longer required to gather the milk and the suckling dynamics of the pallet changed. If the milk flowed too fast or baby needed to rest, the tongue rolled back to try and cover the open hole. At this point, the baby was drinking as though the bottle were a straw. If the baby could not keep up with the flow, milk spilled out the sides of baby’s mouth. Once baby became used to continuous flow bottles, returning to the breast was difficult.
The Second Nature feeding nipple has been created with tiny skin like pores that remain closed when not in use. Once the baby begins to suckle, the nipple membrane stretches and the tiny pore like holes begin to open allowing flow. The harder the baby suckles, the more milk begins to flow. If baby is not suckling, there is no flow. If fact, if baby is not latching and suckling properly (and simply drinking like a straw) milk will not flow from the Second Nature bottle. Proper latching and massaging of the nipple are required to stretch the membranes. This minimizes the potential for nipple confusion because the same actions are required for both breast-feeding and using the Second Nature bottle.
Recently, Umix invited medical experts and mothers to express their opinions about the Second Nature bottle during focus group sessions. All groups were very excited about the unique benefit of the Second Nature nipple! In fact, feedback continues to be so positive, Second Nature has the potential to revolutionize the feeding industry.
To educate the world about such a big change in infant feeding, Umix enlisted Regal Lager. They are responsible for distribution of the complete line of Second Nature bottles and accessories. You can find them at http://www.regallager.com/.
Umix is committed to bringing you new creations each year to improve your baby's health.
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