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Wouldn’t it be nice if the breast had ounce markers on it?
I think one of the biggest questions I hear from moms is, “Is my baby getting enough breast milk?”
And it’s an understandable concern – I mean, for the most part, all you have to go off of is diapers and weight gain.
While Jack didn’t have weight gain issues, Oliver did, and it was one of the most stressful and scary times of my life.
I always wondered if he was truly getting enough. While we used a scale to do weighted feeds for nearly every feed for a few months, it was really stressful!
Doing those weighted feeds helped us discover that he actually was getting enough, but he wasn’t gaining weight as well as he should have. It gave us the catalyst we needed to convince our doctor that we thought he had bad reflux (which was the problem).
However, weighted feeds are not that fun to do! So when I was walking through Target a few months ago, I saw something on the shelf, and it really caught my eye:
Momsense. The description said something about how it was a unique device that tracks baby’s nursing intake and habits.
I didn’t have my phone at the time, so I snapped a picture with Forrest’s because I wanted to do more research when I got home.
I soon found out that it was a smart device that had been developed to track baby’s breast milk intake by using acoustics to track baby’s swallows. You put the sensor underneath baby’s ear, and then you connect the headphones and sensor to the app, and it tracks the milk intake from there.
As soon as I learned more, I reached out to the company to see if I could do a review, and much to my delight, they agreed (and they also agreed to give me an exclusive discount code for 20% off – the code is specialoffer20).
My Thoughts on Momsense Smart Breastfeeding Meter
Oliver is just over one, so the product isn’t ideal for him because a) I don’t really need to monitor his breast milk intake as much anymore and b) he is far more likely to pull at the wires.
When I talked with my contact at Momsense, she said it is recommended to use this product with babies under 3 months. That sounded about right to me, especially since many breast milk intake issues occur during those first three months.
Accuracy
However, when I got the product, I still decided to try it out with Oliver. As I suspected, he wasn’t too thrilled about it. I was able to track a little less than 2/3 of his feed, though, and the amount recorded seemed on par with what he usually would eat (about 3 ounces per feed – the app tracked almost 2).
So, as far as accuracy goes, I feel that it was quite accurate. I was hoping to do a weighted feed and then use the Momsense Meter another time, but Oliver was not having it. I might have to enlist the help of my sister-in-law and her new baby for that <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="