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The nine best breastfeeding apps to help you if you breastfeed your baby

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Technology can be a great ally if used wisely. Luckily, we have applications to help us during pregnancy and to accompany us during the first year of our child.

But if there is something that worries us parents, especially new ones, is to find out if we are feeding our child well, especially in the first months of life. And, although we know that breast milk is the best we can offer our baby, it is not always easy at first. Therefore, any help is welcome.

We are talking about 9 applications about breastfeeding that will help you if you breastfeed your baby , but remembering that nothing replaces the advice of a professional, such as a midwife, pediatrician or lactation consultant.

Breastfeeding AEP

Behind this application is the Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP). It allows a complete monitoring of the baby’s progress during lactation.

You can access the application as a parent, professional or member of a support group. In it you will find information about breastfeeding quickly and intuitively:

  • General recommendations adapted to the stage of the infant.
  • Lactation technique.
  • Recommended habits during the lactation period.
  • Most frequent problems that may occur.
  • False myths.

Parents will be able to create a simple profile for their baby in which very useful daily data can be stored that can be consulted later in the “statistics” section in graph format.

It includes a notification service to keep the user (parents, professionals or support groups) updated with the latest news in the field of breastfeeding. Depending on your profile, you will receive only the news and notifications that are of interest to you.

  • You can download the app for Android and Apple.

Breastfeeding

This application allows you to record and record breastfeeding times, keep a record of complementary feeding, sleep, crying, weight, height, head circumference of your baby as well as your pumping times or even your own defined events.

  • You can download the app for Android

Lactapp

Developed by the lactation consultants Alba Padró and María Berruezo, they have already attended more than 9 million consultations since 2018. All functionalities are open and available to all mothers in the world. Only if after using it, you think it has been useful and you can pay for the service you have received through the app (you can pay the amount you consider, you can even € 0).

Today it is available in Spanish and English and offers questions and answers, advice on breastfeeding, going back to work, weaning … tests to check our knowledge and allows us to monitor our baby and ourselves.

  • You can download this app for Android and Apple.

MyMedela

This application has practical tips and information to help you in the process of caring for your little one, it also allows you to keep track of the baby’s data and the hours of breastfeeding or extraction, it has answers to frequently asked questions about pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as articles and tips from Medela lactation consultants.

  • You can download the app for Android and Apple.

Approve

Developed by the Carlos Slim Foundation, it provides information on the benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby, advice on feeding the mother and its influence on the quality of breast milk, advice on preparing to breastfeed or on hygiene practices in a time when the breast is exposed to many external agents, as well as frequent problems in lactation.

  • You can download the app for Android and Apple.

The breastfeeding expert in your pocket

It allows you to solve doubts about breastfeeding, it works as a virtual lactation consultant to which you can make all the lactation consultations you have: breastfeeding more than one child, premature babies, tandem breastfeeding, return to work, mother’s health , baby’s health or how to combine a bottle and breast are some of the topics that you can consult with this application.

  • You can download the app for Android

Baby Day Book

It is the baby care app and baby tracking solution, if:

  • You are a sleep-deprived parent without much experience in caring for your baby and you cannot remember the times of breastfeeding, feeding, diapering, sleeping and other baby care activities.

  • You need to have all the answers when your doctor asks you crucial questions after delivery about breastfeeding and baby care, such as feeding and diapers.

In addition to being a kind of diary of the baby in which to write down when you have fed the baby, if he has taken a nap, how many diapers you have changed, …

  • You can download the app for Android and Apple.

Breastfeeding registration

You will be able to record breastfeeding, bottle feeding, solid food feeding, and expressing milk. You can save information about diaper changes, sleep periods, and your baby’s height and weight measurement results.

  • Record feeding with each breast, or with both if you feed your baby with two breasts in the same breastfeeding period.

  • Record the baby’s bottle feeding.

  • Record the baby’s feeding with solid foods, the type of food and its quantity.

  • If you need to express her milk, you can set how many ml were expressed from each breast.

  • Record the diaper change: whether it is wet or dirty, or both.

  • You will always know how many diapers she has changed per day.

  • Convenient breastfeeding and sleep timers, easy to stop and reset.

  • Your baby’s height and weight on a daily basis.

  • An easy-to-configure, periodic reminder can be added for each event.

  • You can download the app for Android and Apple.

My momsense

It allows you to monitor the milk intake at each feeding of your baby through a device that is placed behind the baby’s auricle and connects to the phone. This device allows you to hear the effective suckings made by the baby while he is nursing and is then able to infer what the milk intake has been in said feeding. In other words, it is an application that allows you to monitor the duration of each shot and the intake in each one of them. As well as listening to the relaxing sound of your baby sucking while at the breast.

  • You can download the app for Apple.

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