Tag Archive for ‘woman inventor’
Pediatrician Mom Creates Innovative Children’s Learning Tool
Dr. Jennifer Canter has two sets of twins and a pediatric practice, but when she came up with the idea for the U-Play Mat in the fall of 2008, she just had to add being an entrepreneur to her already busy schedule. Conceived of as an educational tool, the U-Play Mat is a U-shaped pad [...]
You Don’t Get Off the Island by Walking
In our newly launched Mom Invented Community, our members can write blog posts, and so far we’ve had some great ones. Periodically, we will be featuring our favorite posts on Mom Invented® as well as in our newsletter. Here’s our very first featured member post, written by Margee Moore, aka MoxieMom, creator of the iPhone [...]
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We just relaunched our community membership site and I am extremely excited about it! We decided to make our community open to everyone and create a place where women entrepreneurs can promote their businesses in the way they want and make the connections they need to help them succeed. The best part about it is [...]
Mom Creates Product to Keep Bra Straps in Place
The Strapper is one of those products that’s so simple you think, “I could have made that,” but Michelle Ostaseski had the idea first — and she’s got the patent to prove it. Michelle, who worked in retail fashion, hated how visible bra straps could ruin an otherwise beautiful outlet, so she envisioned a simple, [...]
Mom Creates Sweet, Stylish Doll Backpack for Girls
Roberta Wagner’s daughter wanted to bring her doll everywhere. Unfortunately, shortly into each trip she would tire of toting her toy and Roberta ended up being the one carrying the doll. The creative mom knew she wasn’t the only mom whose hands were constantly tied up carrying her daughter’s doll, so she decided to create [...]
Mom’s Invention Keeps Kids Entertained While Shopping
After a frustrating shopping trip with her 3 boys, Laura Hamrick knew she had to create something to help her time at the market go more smoothly. During her sons’ afternoon nap, she came up with OnTray, a plastic container that attaches to the handlebar of a shopping cart where you can place your child’s [...]
Mom Fights SIDS by Helping Parents Position Infants Properly
As a neonatal nurse practitioner, Beth Rumack frequently taught parents to position their infants in car seats using rolled up blankets and towels. But these impromptu solutions were flawed — the supports could roll out of position and were hard to maintain over time, and the babies’ heads could slump, constricting their airway and causing [...]
Snow-Loving Mom Creates Gloves Tailored to Kids’ Hands
When the weather outside was frightful, Kathy Partak had trouble getting her son, Mason, to wear mittens. He just didn’t like them, and from the time he was 2 years old, he refused to wear them. What he wanted were gloves, but Kathy couldn’t find a pair that would properly his small hands. So Kathy [...]
Mom of 4 Solves Parenting Problems With 2 Kid-Inspired Products
Stay-at-home mom of four Athena Menoudakos always wanted to start a business, but put her dreams on hold when she started a family. As a mom, though, she kept thinking up ideas that would make parenting easier, and she found that other moms were having similar issues, too. Without taking any loans, she spent two [...]
Sportscaster Mom Has Pediatricians Prescribing Her New Infant Invention
Leslie Gudel already had a successful career as a sportscaster covering the Philadelphia Phillies when she had children. But when her daughter wouldn’t sleep in anything but her car seat for parts of her first year, Leslie decided to take on a second job — as an inventor. She couldn’t find an infant bed that [...]
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