My first son was born in 2021 prematurely (27 weeks and 4 days) at 1 lb 2 oz (510 g) and spent 171 days in the NICU. He came home with a g-tube on bolus feeds, but after a sickness started projectile vomiting. After months of vomiting, he was transitioned to a G/J tube and became dependent on a Moog Infinity Pump for continuous feeds.

Tubie Tech started in 2023 when my wife and son went to visit her family 3 and a half hours away from us while I stayed home to work. I was distracted when packing, and forgot to grab the charger for his pump, and 1 day into their 4 day visit his pump ran out of battery. Fortunately my wife is a member of a Facebook group for parents of kids with feeding tubes, and another family was willing to let us borrow their pump charger for a few hours to re-charge his pump.

We have an EMT bag that we keep supplies in for traveling, and I wanted to order a 2nd pump charger for the bag so this never happened again. The proprietary charging connector on Infinity feeding pumps meant that there were no third party chargers available, and the first party ones cost $50 to $75.

I knew there had to be a better option, and remembered a video by a popular tech YouTuber on updating older electronics to charge using USB-C and started designing a charger that would allow anyone to charge their feeding pump using the charging cables that they already have with them for their phone, laptop, game console, headphones or battery banks.

I decided to launch Tubie Tech to share with other families all of the hacks and products that my wife and I created to help us and our son, and hopefully make the lives of those families just a little easier.