AquaWomb - Perinatal Life Support

New care options for extreme preterm born babies. Give precious extra time to grow stronger - naturally via their own umbilical cord.more...

Features

Simulator for parents and medical staff

Experience delicate handling with our realistic 24-week fetus simulator. Build confidence handling your tiny baby.

Adapted delivery at birth

Safe womb-to-care transfer in protective amniotic fluid. Maintains natural umbilical cord feeding and prevents early lung activation -- no sedation.

Perinatal life support

The artificial womb and placenta system maintains amniotic fluid environment as in the mother's womb. Oxygen and nutrients continue via the infant's umbilical cord to grow stronger. Aim to bridge to the 28 weeks for full birth.

Partners

Together with our partners we will design, build and clinically validate our concepts to products.

We have 5 years of intensive research behind our ideas -- supported by a European grant -- at Universities Eindhoven, Aachen and Milan, and companies MedSim and Lifetec.

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

We continue collaboration with the departments Biomedical Engineering -- Industrial Design -- and Electrical Engineering. See https://tue.nl

MedSim

See: https://medsim.nl/english

Team Members

Myrthe van der Ven

Dr. Myrthe van der Ven has worked as a technical physician and postdoc researcher both at TU/e Biomedical Engineering and at the Obstetrics Department of Máxima MC more...

Guid Oei

Prof.dr. Guid Oei has worked as gynaecologist at the Máxima MC since 1996, where he is cofounder of the Woman Mother Child Center, the Obstetrics High Care Unit and the NICU more...

Marcel Quist

Marcel Quist has worked as a business developer at The Gate at TU/e and Brainport region to support high-tech start-ups in Medtech and AI. He has a Physics degree at TU Delft more...

Latest News & Updates

March 26, 2025

Incorporation AquaWomb

We founded AquaWomb B.V. with Myrthe, Guid and Marcel together with Sonja (TU/e). A major milestone in bringing our vision to life!

Research Highlight

De Universiteit van Nederland

Summary video about 5-year research results with European partners

June 10, 2025

RTL News

RTL news item on 'water couveuse' (in Dutch)

June 26, 2025

Telegraaf News

Unieke Nederlandse watercouveuse laat vroeggeboren baby's doorgroeien

Coming Soon

Stay Tuned

More exciting updates coming soon. Visit aquawomb.eu for the latest news!

Follow our journey as we develop the future of neonatal care

AquaWomb: A Better Start for Preterm Babies