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The Butterfly Pig
SKU: BERL-HEA-000-000-000
🍃 Eco-friendly design exclusively by The Butterfly Pig™
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Play taps into the subconsious.
Realism supports "transfer" for kids to process their own experiences.
Children learn best through hands-on interaction.
Toy External Ventricular Assist Device (Berlin Heart–Inspired)
This External Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) play model is designed to help children understand, accept, and emotionally process life-saving heart support in a way that feels safe, approachable, and empowering.
Modeled after the Berlin Heart system, this realistic toy gives kids something they can see, touch, and explore—so the equipment that once felt scary becomes familiar, predictable, and less overwhelming.
✨ Reduces fear and anxiety before procedures
✨ Improves cooperation and trust during care
✨ Builds understanding, not just compliance
✨ Gives children a sense of control in a powerless situation
✨ Helps families explain complex care in simple, concrete terms
✨ Supports play-based coping and emotional processing
Perfect for medical play, procedure prep, sibling support, and ongoing coping in cardiac and ICU settings.
This isn’t just a toy.
It’s a trust-building tool.
A fear-reducing tool.
A trauma-prevention tool.
A bridge between complex medicine and a child’s world.
When kids understand what’s happening, they feel safer.
When they feel safer, care goes better.
CPSC Compliant • Lead & Phthalates Free
WARNING! Choking Hazard; Small Parts; Not for Children Under 3 Years
Eco-friendly
Phthalate-free
Educational
Our company mission is to make healthcare more child-friendly. Empowering kids with unique medical needs through realistic and educational medical toys.
Explain medical devices and procedures in a kid-friendly way!
Promote healthy coping and self-advocacy by allowing kids to mimic and process their experiences through play.
Provide representation to medically complex kids so they develop a confident sense of their unique and extraordinary selves.
We partner with caregivers and professionals to imagine and create new products to continually increase representation of children undergoing medical experiences.
Provide representation to medically complex kids so they develop a confident sense of their unique and extraordinary selves.
150%
Increase patient cooperation
40%
Decreased anxiety
112%
Increased understanding
