On the trade floor, screens showed guns, cars, football players, and lycra-clad virtual babes, featuring "better breast shadowing, better breast physics, and deeper breast customization," as one gaming blog put it.
"No wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody, 'You better breast-feed your baby,' " she said at a speech on Long Island.
Successful products that have been inspired from the events span from solutions targeted towards improving medication adherence, developing a better breast pump, improving neonatal resuscitation, and diabetic wound care.
I did not understand then as I do now that while nearly everyone agrees that breast is indeed best, there is significant disagreement within the medical community about just how much better breast milk is than formula.
But many women demanded it, staging meetings where they testified about the benefits of twilight-sleep birth: shorter, less painful labors, better breast feeding, fewer forceps deliveries and an easier recovery.
One of the big things that this new information should be pushing us toward is better breast cancer risk assessment.
In some patients, this may result in better breast image quality as the absence of myocardial activity adjacent to the breast may result in less scatter in the breast images.
The event resulted in a research paper wryly titled "A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies: 'When I first saw a breast pump I was wondering if it was a joke.'" For many women, especially those who have seen tech improve almost every other aspect of their lives from light bulbs to ordering laundry detergent, building a better breast pump is indeed a feminist issue.
Collaborating with her husband Jared Miller, Rudolph set her goal: to build a better breast pump.
"We all know someone who could have benefited from a better breast pump in the past, or who will in the future," Rudolph said.
