Up Spring Baby

Could the dilemma over whether to pump and dump be over?

The folks that brought us the Night Knight infant movement monitor and Walking Wings to help us get our tots on their feet, have introduced Milkscreen ($10 for 8 strips), a breast milk alcohol detection kit, which allows a nursing mother to determine the volume of alcohol in her breast milk.

The test requires the mother to express her milk onto the test strip, similar to those pH strips you used in high school chemistry class, and two minutes later the strip changes colors if the alcohol content is above 0.02%.

What's your opinion of the product?

Many new parents are skittish when they bring home baby. A cough can cause a mother to leap out of bed like a bolt of lightning. Instead of checking in on the tot every five minutes to see if they are still breathing, parents can now rely on new battery powered technology from Up Spring Baby.

The $70 Night Knight detects an infant's slightest move. If there is no motion for over 23 seconds, an alarm will sound to wake the infant or notify the parent or caregiver.

Price not being an issue, would you even consider purchasing such a device?