MEET THE L.A. MOM WHO CREATED A SOLUTION FOR BUSY, BREASTFEEDING MOMS MEET THE L.A. MOM WHO CREATED A SOLUTION FOR BUSY, BREASTFEEDING MOMS

MILA’S KEEPER STORES BREAST MILK FOR UP TO 20 HOURS WITHOUT ICE

Lara Vu is a Los Angeles-mom and a former UNICEF staffer tasked with helping moms maintain breastfeeding in factory workplaces.

On a project overseas she discovered that lack of milk storage leads to cessation. She vowed to solve this and created the essential gear for traveling and active moms, Mila’s Keeper, TSA-friendly, modern and portable breast milk storage coolers and industrial glass bottles that cold store pumped breast milk without ice for up to 20 hours. Mila’s Keeper provides time and ease after breast pumping so women can do more without worry of fear of spoilage.

“As a working, breastfeeding mom myself, I wanted to create better products for moms that would help give them greater freedom and flexibility to do things they want for themselves,” says Vu. “There is a general lack of sufficient innovation in products for women because women founders get less than 2% of venture capital investment in the US. This means we are at the whim of men to create solutions for our challenges.”

When she first started researching the idea for a better breast milk cooler, Vu found many contraptions for beer coolers, and virtually none for breast milk.