Hospital pumping bra

Every drop counts. So does your sleep.

A single-use, stretch-to-fit pumping bra for the hospital bedside. It holds the flanges so a patient can pump hands-free — protecting the milk a NICU infant depends on, and giving your team back the minutes they currently spend holding a pump in place.

Developed at the bedside in the NICU at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD

The PreemieBra worn on a form, holding two pump flanges and collection bottles hands-free
Holds the flanges Both stay seated at the band — no clips, hooks, or straps to fasten.
Single patient use Worn once, then discarded. Nothing is laundered or shared between patients.
Every drop kept for the NICU Hands-free no bedside assist One size stretch-to-fit Affordable disposable knit

Why it matters on your floor

Two problems, one disposable garment

A pumping bra is not a comfort item in a hospital. It is what stands between a sleeping patient and a spilled bottle — and between your staff and another twenty minutes at one bedside.

Life-saving

Milk that reaches the infant instead of the sheets

Patients fall asleep mid-session. They are exhausted, medicated, recovering from surgery, or simply cannot keep two flanges seated for twenty minutes at a time. When the flanges shift, the session's output ends up on the bed.

For a premature infant in the NICU, that output is not a convenience. Every drop of a mother's milk is critical to that child's survival, and a spilled bottle is not something the next session gets back.

  • Reduces spillage when a patient falls asleep while pumping.
  • Supports patients with limited mobility or dexterity who cannot hold flanges in position unaided.
  • Protects the supply a NICU infant is being fed from, session after session.

Affordable patient care

Staff time returned to the patients who need it

Every patient who can pump hands-free is a patient who does not need a nurse or lactation consultant standing at the bedside to hold a pump in place. That time goes back to the rest of the floor.

And because PreemieBra is made from the same disposable knit material as the maternity briefs you already stock, offering one is a supply decision rather than a capital one — which is exactly why fabric pumping bras never made it onto most floors.

  • More patients pumping hands-free at the same staffing level.
  • Disposable-brief economics — same affordable material family, same single-use handling.
  • No laundering and no shared undergarments between patients.
  • Stretch-to-fit, one size — no sizing to stock, sort, or get wrong at 3 a.m.

At the bedside

Three steps, none of them yours

No assembly, no sizing chart, no fitting appointment. Hand it to the patient and the rest happens without you.

  1. First

    Hand it over

    It pulls on like a tank top. Nothing to fasten one-handed, and nothing to size.

  2. Then

    Flanges go under the band

    The band holds each flange at the correct angle and carries the weight of the bottles, so the patient's hands stay free.

  3. After

    Discard

    Session over, it goes in the bin. Nothing to launder, reprocess, track, or return.

During my wife's stay at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, she and other patients suffered from milk spillage when they fell asleep while pumping. Our child was in the NICU, and every drop of breast milk was critical to our child's survival.

Unfortunately, our hospital — like many others — did not provide breast pumping bras, because of their high cost. So I looked around our hospital room and noticed a pair of disposable medical briefs, the maternity knit pants. I cut, ripped, and remade the briefs into bras.

This immediately solved a critical problem for us and for several other patients. I shared it with the nurses that same night.

Today, lactation consultants are still hand-making these bras for their patients while they wait for the product to be formally available in their hospitals. We would like to bring it to life properly — for the mothers and premature babies facing this same problem all over the world.

Questions from clinical teams

Straight answers

What is it made of?

The same disposable knit material family as the maternity briefs already stocked on most maternity floors — which is where the very first one was cut from.

How is it sized?

It is stretch-to-fit rather than sized. The band and cups give, so one garment works across the swelling and changes of the postpartum period. There is nothing to measure or stock in multiples.

Which pumps does it work with?

It is designed around standard electric pump flanges and holds them at the band. Patients using all-in-one wearable cups generally do not need a pumping bra at all.

How does it handle infection control?

It is single patient use. It is worn once and discarded, so it is never laundered, reprocessed, or shared between patients — the concern that keeps fabric pumping bras off most floors.

What does an evaluation involve?

We send samples to your unit at no cost. Your team uses them with consenting patients, and we ask for candid feedback on fit, flange retention, comfort, and how they hold up over a full session. Nothing is invoiced and there is nothing to sign.

Is this a regulated medical device?

No. It is a disposable garment, not a medical device, and it does not replace your unit's clinical protocols or lactation guidance.

Evaluation samples

Put it in front of your patients first

We are not selling to floors yet. We are looking for lactation consultants, NICU and maternity nurse directors, and the teams currently hand-making these to try the real thing and tell us where it falls short.

Request evaluation samples

Or write to us directly at [email protected]. A person reads every message.

What we send

  • Evaluation samples for your unit, at no cost
  • A one-page bedside instruction sheet
  • A direct line to the founder, not a support queue

What we ask back

  • Honest feedback on fit, retention, and comfort
  • What happens over a full session, not just the first minute
  • What would have to be true for your floor to stock it

If your team is already making these

We would like to hear from you first

Consultants are still cutting up disposable briefs by hand to get patients through a session. If that is happening on your floor, you already know more about this product than we do.

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