A Better Baby Bottle

An English inventor’s attempt to help new mothers pack lighter at first sent he and his wife packing for his parents’ house.

Tim Moor, 34, and wife Georgie, 35, spent six years trying to create a recyclable, collapsible and disposable feeding bottle. But as the couple struggled to build the perfect prototype, they ran out of money. Forced to sell their house in Yorkshire, north of London, they moved in with Tim Moor’s parents — and started cleaning mobile homes on weekends for extra cash.

In the end, they triumphed: According to England's Yorkshire Post, investors pumped £750,000 (about $1.2 million) into their company G&T Design, and the couple — parents to Izzy, 5, and Freddie, 1 — recently got their bottle into stores. It’s since sold out on English drugstore Boots’ website.

The Vital Baby Nurture bottle, £2.99 ($4.86) for a pack of four, is a plastic pouch with a collapsible nipple attached.

It’s sterile before you remove the covering cap, and the pouch with the liquid is designed to collapse slowly as the baby drinks so there’s no air left — thus reducing the need for burping.

“This invention puts an end for the need for mums to carry around bulky rigid bottles and sterilization equipment, a godsend for days out or when travelling,” Tim Moor told the Yorkshire Post. “This will make life so much easier especially as parents have so much stuff to take anyway when travelling with a baby."

No word on whether the headaches of inventing the baby bottle inspired Moor to hit a bottle of a very different type: His current project is a gin that includes 150-year-old oak bark from England’s national parks.