Medela Family - Breast Feeding

Name: Medela Family - Breast Feeding
Rating: 4.3 (4703 reviews)
Author: Medela AG

Breastfeeding, Pumping Tracker

Free · Designed for iPhone

4.7K Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Medela AG
Language

EN
+ 13 More
Size

150.4
MB

Winner of the Best Baby App of 2022 (Baby Innovation Awards). Silver Winner for Best Native Mobile App at the 2021 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Winner of the 2022 Social Media and Digital Awards in the Mobile app category. Medela Family™ is the personal helper for pregnant and breastfeeding moms just like you. Designed by the world’s leading breast pump manufacturer, this maternity app provides tracking tools for pregnancy, breastfeeding, breast pumping, and more. After your breast pumping session, you can add the milk to the virtual milk storage feature to keep an overview of your milk stash.* Monitor lactation, baby development, sleep, and more. We take breastfeeding tracker tools a step ahead – you'll find interactive checklists, personalized articles, custom tips, reminders, and get all the support to meet your breastfeeding and breast pumping goals. Save time and energy – so that you can enjoy baby nursing – or, maybe sleep? HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEDELA PREGNANCY & BABY TRACKER APP PREGNANCY TRACKER & BABY TRACKER TOOLS - Monitor your contractions with the pregnancy tracker. - See the size of your baby during pregnancy - Check vital baby development indicators like sleep, diapers, feeds, length and weight with the baby tracker. - View maternity & baby tracker statistics along with insights on your dashboard. - Easily export your records to share with your paediatrician. - Use voice command to control baby tracker & pregnancy tracker tools.* BREASTFEEDING TRACKER, BREAST PUMPING & MILK MANAGEMENT - With the breastfeeding tracker, you can monitor your baby nursing sessions and milk supply. - Connect seamlessly to Medela Sonata, Freestyle Flex and Swing Maxi smart breast pumps for recording pumping sessions in real-time, helpful information and quick how-to's. - Manage your breast milk stash and breast milk expiration dates with our virtual milk storage feature.* - Save every single detail in your very own breastfeeding log. - Control breastfeeding tracker features via voice command. GET TRUSTED ANSWERS TO YOUR MATERNITY & BABY DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS - Get access to expert tips and articles to overcome challenges and reach your maternity and breastfeeding goals. - Your virtual helper answers questions using the Medela knowledge base, created by certified lactation and baby nursing experts and based on 60 years of experience. - Use pre-set and customizable checklists to help pack your hospital bag, prepare for returning to work, and much more. With the pregnancy tracker, lactation and breastfeeding tracker, baby tracker and more, you can save every detail that matters – while you get to enjoy the journey of motherhood. You and your family deserve the best. Join for FREE with the Medela Family pregnancy tracker, baby tracker, breast pumping & breastfeeding tracker app! *Voice control and the virtual milk storage are available for Medela breast pump users only. Medela is committed to inclusive digital experiences, following Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We embed accessibility in our culture, educate teams, and conduct audits. If you experience challenges using our app or have improvement suggestions, please contact: accessibility@medela.com.

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

4.7K Ratings

Really great tracking app, can be a little glitchy
05/26/2023

KittyDV
This app has been a lifesaver for my husband and I to track when we last fed/diapered our little one, but sometimes it struggles to keep the data up to date with having two people logged in to the same account, and sometimes it takes a couple tries to make sure it logged something. The virtual milk storage is great for quantity, but there's not a lot of versatility to move milk from tray to tray once frozen, so while I've been trying to figure out what my freezer system will be, I'm married to wherever I put them in the beginning which can be a little cumbersome but still useful to know how much we have in storage and when it will expire.The functionality I desperately want though is the ability to have a widget or for the session of breastfeeding to appear on the lock screen so there's less phone fumbling time when I'm trying to balance kiddo. A reach but still something what would be amazing would be a setting for pumping that allows you to set the time you want to pump and it counts down rather than up so you get a notification when you're done. This would have been especially helpful when building my milk supply!Still way better than paper tracking!

Developer Response
Hi Kitty, thank you for your detailed feedback! We are happy you like our app and find it useful. Regarding your comments, we are already working on the multiple users log in, as well as the widgets so stay tuned! Your Medela Family
Really great tracking app, can be a little glitchy
05/26/2023

KittyDV

This app has been a lifesaver for my husband and I to track when we last fed/diapered our little one, but sometimes it struggles to keep the data up to date with having two people logged in to the same account, and sometimes it takes a couple tries to make sure it logged something. The virtual milk storage is great for quantity, but there's not a lot of versatility to move milk from tray to tray once frozen, so while I've been trying to figure out what my freezer system will be, I'm married to wherever I put them in the beginning which can be a little cumbersome but still useful to know how much we have in storage and when it will expire.The functionality I desperately want though is the ability to have a widget or for the session of breastfeeding to appear on the lock screen so there's less phone fumbling time when I'm trying to balance kiddo. A reach but still something what would be amazing would be a setting for pumping that allows you to set the time you want to pump and it counts down rather than up so you get a notification when you're done. This would have been especially helpful when building my milk supply!Still way better than paper tracking!
Developer Response 06/07/2023
Hi Kitty, thank you for your detailed feedback! We are happy you like our app and find it useful. Regarding your comments, we are already working on the multiple users log in, as well as the widgets so stay tuned! Your Medela Family
The old version was much better :(
08/02/2021

JessicaRL017
In 2019 and the beginning of 2020, this app saved my life. My husband and I both used it on our phones to track bottles and diapers, and I tracked breastfeeding and pumping. It was user friendly and well organized. With baby #2, I just reopened the app to use it again and it’s just terrible. :( It’s very unorganized, timers automatically start when you click to log breastfeeding or pumping that you have to immediately stop and then manually put in your time (unless you have a pump that will connect to the app via Bluetooth). And don’t get me started on logging previous happenings - I came home from the hospital and wanted to log her first 36 hours in the app so everything was in one place, and when it takes about 10 tries to change the time on logging something and the date because they make it so small that you fat finger everything. They have what feels like 5 millions categories now for logging when it was nicer to have the basics - breastfeeding, pumping, bottles, and diapers. Stats gives you the overall for the day but it’s laid out different for each day in a different order depending how what order you logged things. It is just SO hard to navigate efficiently now and it’s difficult to find things!!! Medela, please fix these issues because I am losing my mind after using the app for only 24 hours! I really don’t want to switch to another one but will have to if it stays like this — it’s giving us headaches.

Developer Response
Hi Jessicasorry to hear you are having a bad experience. Next week we will release a big update that will solve many usability problems.
The old version was much better :(
08/02/2021

JessicaRL017

In 2019 and the beginning of 2020, this app saved my life. My husband and I both used it on our phones to track bottles and diapers, and I tracked breastfeeding and pumping. It was user friendly and well organized. With baby #2, I just reopened the app to use it again and it’s just terrible. :( It’s very unorganized, timers automatically start when you click to log breastfeeding or pumping that you have to immediately stop and then manually put in your time (unless you have a pump that will connect to the app via Bluetooth). And don’t get me started on logging previous happenings - I came home from the hospital and wanted to log her first 36 hours in the app so everything was in one place, and when it takes about 10 tries to change the time on logging something and the date because they make it so small that you fat finger everything. They have what feels like 5 millions categories now for logging when it was nicer to have the basics - breastfeeding, pumping, bottles, and diapers. Stats gives you the overall for the day but it’s laid out different for each day in a different order depending how what order you logged things. It is just SO hard to navigate efficiently now and it’s difficult to find things!!! Medela, please fix these issues because I am losing my mind after using the app for only 24 hours! I really don’t want to switch to another one but will have to if it stays like this — it’s giving us headaches.
Developer Response 08/03/2021
Hi Jessicasorry to hear you are having a bad experience. Next week we will release a big update that will solve many usability problems.
Bugs!!!
11/06/2023

KatMillan
When i first started using this app early this year it was great! It was a fantastic way to keep track of my son’s feedings, diapers, weight gain, etc, as well as pumping. But, I think sometime during the summer, it started to get buggy. Sometimes it would freeze when I’d try to save a feeding or nap, so I’d have to restart the app and whatever I was trying to save would be gone completely. Then it got more and more frequent. Now it’s a daily occurrence, as well as the buttons for left or right for breastfeeding sometimes “stick”. As in I’ll press and press and it won’t do anything then it’ll do it after a second then register again to turn it off and on and off, etc. It’s so frustrating. Also in the past few days it’s been lagging more while it’s trying to load the main page. Today it got to the point that i had to restart the app many times before it would even work. I know the app updated at some point in the last few months but it didn’t seem to help anything. Things just seemed to get worse. I’m going to check again for an update today. Maybe I missed the latest update that may have fixed some of these problems.I’m just so tired of having to fight this thing to the point that I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to find a less buggy app for this. But I really don’t want to because I have all of my son’s progress on here. I’d be really sad to lose it all…

Developer Response
Hi KatMillan, we are sorry you're having issues with our app. Our Cloud infrastructure had some unexpected downtimes 2 days ago, but usually our servers availability is excellent. Microsoft generally guarantees 99.5% which is state of the art for cloud services. In case your app is not back working today, please uninstall and reinstall it. Please also send us an email at intappsupport@medela.com with a screen recording of the other issue you mentioned. Your Medela Family
Bugs!!!
11/06/2023

KatMillan

When i first started using this app early this year it was great! It was a fantastic way to keep track of my son’s feedings, diapers, weight gain, etc, as well as pumping. But, I think sometime during the summer, it started to get buggy. Sometimes it would freeze when I’d try to save a feeding or nap, so I’d have to restart the app and whatever I was trying to save would be gone completely. Then it got more and more frequent. Now it’s a daily occurrence, as well as the buttons for left or right for breastfeeding sometimes “stick”. As in I’ll press and press and it won’t do anything then it’ll do it after a second then register again to turn it off and on and off, etc. It’s so frustrating. Also in the past few days it’s been lagging more while it’s trying to load the main page. Today it got to the point that i had to restart the app many times before it would even work. I know the app updated at some point in the last few months but it didn’t seem to help anything. Things just seemed to get worse. I’m going to check again for an update today. Maybe I missed the latest update that may have fixed some of these problems.I’m just so tired of having to fight this thing to the point that I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to find a less buggy app for this. But I really don’t want to because I have all of my son’s progress on here. I’d be really sad to lose it all…
Developer Response 11/08/2023
Hi KatMillan, we are sorry you're having issues with our app. Our Cloud infrastructure had some unexpected downtimes 2 days ago, but usually our servers availability is excellent. Microsoft generally guarantees 99.5% which is state of the art for cloud services. In case your app is not back working today, please uninstall and reinstall it. Please also send us an email at intappsupport@medela.com with a screen recording of the other issue you mentioned. Your Medela Family
Great!!
06/12/2024

Slytherin_Bridget
I used it when I first had my son in 2021 who was in Nicu and I had to track everything to a T. However I never got my pump connected, so just manually entered everything since I used a hospital pump and a hands free as well but still tracked. I still have all my info from that as well which is nice to look back on. A couple months ago my soon to be ex-husband and I separated and are now going through a heated custody battle. I have had to start the pumping game again and this time I’m only using me sonata pump but it still wasn’t available for Bluetooth despite the advertising. So I went online and the saw they still sell and advertise the Sonata as being Bluetooth compatible. I contacted customer service and an update came out or they gave me access and I now can connect which is helpful while dealing with a toddler and pumping. 10/10 would recommend Medela in general! Of course the hospital grade pump is the best but my Sonata is a close second.

Developer Response
Hi Slytherin_Bridget, thank you so much for your review. We are glad to hear you are enjoying our app and that our customer support team was prompt in addressing your issue. Happy to support mothers in their daily lives. Your Medela Family
Great!!
06/12/2024

Slytherin_Bridget

I used it when I first had my son in 2021 who was in Nicu and I had to track everything to a T. However I never got my pump connected, so just manually entered everything since I used a hospital pump and a hands free as well but still tracked. I still have all my info from that as well which is nice to look back on. A couple months ago my soon to be ex-husband and I separated and are now going through a heated custody battle. I have had to start the pumping game again and this time I’m only using me sonata pump but it still wasn’t available for Bluetooth despite the advertising. So I went online and the saw they still sell and advertise the Sonata as being Bluetooth compatible. I contacted customer service and an update came out or they gave me access and I now can connect which is helpful while dealing with a toddler and pumping. 10/10 would recommend Medela in general! Of course the hospital grade pump is the best but my Sonata is a close second.
Developer Response 06/24/2024
Hi Slytherin_Bridget, thank you so much for your review. We are glad to hear you are enjoying our app and that our customer support team was prompt in addressing your issue. Happy to support mothers in their daily lives. Your Medela Family

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