Because, babies are unable to communicate. Be it pain or distress; they’re unable to ASK for help. Hence, parents have to rely on visual cues to assess their baby’s health.
But where’s the manual that maps a baby’s signs (abnormal breathing/skin color/ irritability) to the underlying condition? Well, that manual doesn’t exist beyond the medical community.
For all of human history, families have depended on ancestral knowledge via word of mouth to soothe a distressed infant. Only when significant time was lost without a solution, the baby would be rushed to the ER.
Pukaar.ai analyzed the repercussions of this delay to find:
Each year, 47% of infant deaths occur in the first 28 days of a full-term infant's life.
2.4 million infants die annually from preventable causes.
This is a huge problem that haunts new parents. How are they supposed to determine whether their baby is crying over a minor gas issue vs having a fatal seizure?
The need of the hour is an intelligent assessment tool, which does the following:
Guide parents with verified information: From newborn sleep patterns, vaccinations, bonding and brain development, parents should have access to credible, pediatrician-verified information at their fingertips, 24*7.
Measure infant's daily health: Understanding a baby's health is to understand their sleeping, feeding, crying, pooping patterns. Any slight abnormalities in these patterns could point to a state of disease. Hence, diligently tracking a baby's daily behavior is of utmost importance.
Alerts whenever your infant needs immediate care: While there exist a bunch of tracking tools where parents can log in their baby’s daily behavior. But, based on behavioral abnormalities, none of these tools are educating young parents about:
Baby’s condition; normal, slightly distressed or life threatening
Probable cause; gastric issue/viral infection/jaundice/probable seizure etc.
Next steps; rush to doctor/give an antibiotic, then rush to doctor
Parents aren’t meant to be perfect. In both human and the animal world, it takes a herd to raise a child. With changing times, as more and more young parents are raising their children alone, away from the influence of their indigenous communities, such digital assistants are an absolute necessity.