MyLee full user guide

MyLee helps you by providing quick and personalized insights into your milk supply evolution, directly from your home. It helps you get on the right track with breastfeeding, helping you and your baby thrive from the first drops. It empowers you to understand and manage potential issues like low milk supply or pain related problems efficiently. With MyLee, you can easily track your breastfeeding progress and gain access to expert lactation advice, ensuring that your breastfeeding experience is as smooth and rewarding as possibl

MyLee can be most beneficial for new mothers who are in the early days of their breastfeeding journey. It's designed to support you as you establish and increase milk production, balance milk supply between breasts and identify any early trends that might lead to breastfeeding challenges such as low milk supply or engorgement. Moms who seek proactive management and personalized guidance can greatly benefit from the insights that MyLee provides, helping to make your breastfeeding experience as successful and stress-free as possible. Mothers that deliver in C-section, first time mothers, and mothers that had difficulties getting pregnant, or difficulties with previous breastfeeding may be more prone to challenges and may benefit from early proactive care.

The MyLee device doesn't directly increase your milk supply. Instead, it helps you understand and monitor your progress in establishing your milk supply by providing early insights into your milk maturation. Early effective breastfeeding practices can make a huge difference for milk supply establishment. The information from MyLee can guide you in understanding your breastfeeding situation and identifying trends, and provides you with guidance accordingly. It's important to apply the insights from MyLee with proper breastfeeding management and practices to effectively establish and increase milk supply. If you're concerned about your supply, it's also advisable to consult with a lactation consultant for personalized guidance.

The MyLee does not directly treat any condition. However, tracking your milk with MyLee can identify early trends and provide insights and recommendations, which might help you manage and prevent issues like milk stasis that when mismanaged may lead to Clogged ducts or mastitis. If you suspect you have clogged ducts, you should consult with a lactation consultant or healthcare provider.

You should consider ordering the MyLee ideally before you give birth, as it is designed to monitor breastfeeding progress and milk production from the very first days after birth. The sooner you start using MyLee, the more effectively you can track and manage your breastfeeding journey, benefiting from personalized guidance and support right from the start. Having said that, mothers have onboarded the system and gained value also at later stages of breastfeeding.

Of course. If you've faced breastfeeding challenges before, MyLee can be a valuable tool to help you be more prepared and informed this time around. By giving you real-time insights into your milk production and offering personalized feedback, it supports you in identifying and addressing issues early on. While it can't guarantee a challenge-free experience, it equips you with data-driven guidance to potentially make your breastfeeding journey way smoother.

MyLee can assist you starting from the first drops and throughout your breastfeeding journey, different mothers find MyLee useful in different scenarios, depending on each personal story. You can benefit most from the MyLee when use start as early as possible after birth.

As long as the MyLee is taken care of, kept and cleaned according to the user manual, it can be used repeatedly for hundreds of times throughout your breastfeeding journey and kept for your next child as well. The battery of the MyLee is long lasting and rechargeable, and the Milk wells are durable.

You can actually start using the MyLee with your early prenatal colostrum even before birth. We built the MyLee to work with just a few milk drops so it can be valuable early on. Ideally you’ll start using the device as soon as possible after birth, for gaining valuable insights early on. The App can be downloaded and used immediatel

No. MyLee is sensing milk properties associated with milk transition from colostrum to fully mature milk, that reflect on breastfeeding establishment, breastfeeding efficiency, and milk supply. It is not testing milk quality or nutritional composition.

The MyLee does NOT quantify the amount of milk produced, and cannot infer to the volume of milk passed by breastfeeding. However, following good maturation dynamics throughout the first days and week postpartum can help calibrate milk quantities in-line with baby’s requirements. This is the rationale behind MyLee Tech.

Ideally during the third trimester, so the MyLee can reach your address well before birth and you can get familiar with it, link your MyLee to your App and on-board the app stress-free early on, and also to get the early guidance and education on the MyLee App. Its compact and the battery is long lasting so you can pack it in your hospital bag.

Order the MyLee and then immediately email our customer support team at contact@mymilklab.com explaining your situation and we will do our best to ship it ASAP so you can benefit from using the MyLee early.

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Download the MyLee App from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and follow the in-app instructions to create an account. You can do that as soon as you purchase a device, even before it reaches you.

In the box you’ll find: Your MyLee milk sensing device, 2 x Milk sample wells, a cleaning accessory (MyLee cleaner), a USB-C cable and a Quick start guide

You will be asked to register your MyLee device barcode in your first attempt to connect your device in My Scan. You can also so it directly in the app under Setting > My scanner, and register your MyLee barcode manually, or by using your smartphone camera. You’ll need to do it only once.

Fill the center of the milk well with about 6 drops (~0.35ml) of milk, turn on the device and connect it to the MyLee App on your smartphone via Bluetooth in 'My Scan' screen. Place the device on the milk-filled well, press 'SCAN', and save the reading. Go to Home screen to see your results and insights

You can use the system several times daily, and use the App as much as you want.

Every scan is informative, and as you perform more scans you can follow your progress and get valuable insights. It is advised to make daily scans in the first weeks when the milk establishment is most dynamic and to keep making scans at the rate you wish to follow stable reads and see early indications of change.

Immediately after use, Flush the milk wells under tap water and completely air dry. For cleaning the device, place about 2ml of tap water in the center of the MyLee cleaner, place the MyLee on top of the cleaner and rotate the device on top of the cleaner several times while keeping water away from the outer shield in the top button and light area. Air day well. Do not rinse the device under water.

Hand express about 6 drops (~0.35ml) for each breast to fill the center of the milk wells. In the first couple of days it may be more challenging, but know that It was scientifically shown that early hand expressing helps milk flow and milk coming in, so it’s a great habit to learn as early as possible.For accurate results express fresh milk either before breastfeeding or at least 1h after the last feed.

For achieving the most accurate results that are relevant for your current stage of breastfeeding It is advised to use fresh milk for testing. If using frozen or refrigerated milk it is important to bring the milk sample to room temperature, and make sure its homogenous before testing.

MyLee was thoroughly designed and validated by our professional team for accuracy, repeatability and robustness. The tech behind the MyLee was peer reviewed in the scientific journal BMC pregnancy and childbirth. (link to scientific paper)

Milk maturation is NOT a medical term, It is a measure developed by MyMilk professional team to assist you and your lactation professional to better understand your day to day routine breastfeeding progress. Milk maturation is measuring the process through which breastmilk changes from early colostrum to fully mature milk, in correlation with milk volume increase over the first couple of weeks of breastfeeding establishment.

Milk maturation %is computed by accurately measuring the electrical resistance of individual milk sample, and placing it on the range determined by MyMilk professional team by measurements from thousands of milk samples throughout days 1-150 after birth, from hundreds of mothers, to full term, healthy, singleton babies.

The MyLee App provides a color index to help you intuitively understand milk maturation dynamics and gives tips and alarms based on your status. Detailed interpretation of these colors would be provided within the app itself. Your goal is to keep ‘green’ dynamics throughout your measurements, while any delayed (or orange) results are a hint that you have significant chance to increase your supply by improving how often or effective your baby breastfeeds.

Identifying milk establishment delays early can help you make any necessary adjustments to your breastfeeding routine or technique earlier, with higher chances of getting back on track and avoid slippery slopes. Any delayed (or orange) results can actually be a source of encouragement that you have significant chance to increase your supply by improving how often or effective your baby breastfeeds. You can also share you progress report with your lactation provider through the App, and get tips and insights for your status directly through the App.

Yes, you can share your breastfeeding data from the MyLee App with your healthcare provider by adding their contact information in the 'My Care team' tab and tapping 'share report' .

If you got a MyLee through your lactation care provider, the LC contact may already appear in your account under My Care Team tab. The MyLee App provides personalized breastfeeding support, however the MyLee is not a substitute of personal professional advice.

MyLee can help any breastfeeding mother to track milk production and maturation, whether you're breastfeeding directly, exclusively pumping, or any combination thereof.

For protecting your body’s ability to produce milk in according to your baby’s needs, it is generally advised to delay any formula or bottle introduction to after breastfeeding is well established. Reality is sometimes complicated and the MyLee can help any breastfeeding mother to track milk production and maturation, whether you're breastfeeding directly, using a bottle, exclusively pumping, or adding non breastmilk feeds.

Breastmilk can be especially beneficial for preemies and a mom to a preemie can benefit from good breastfeeding establishment. However, breastfeeding a preemie has its own unique challenges. In the current version, MyLee reference values and content was built to assist healthy mothers to healthy term babies, and you should consult with your healthcare provider regarding you and your baby’s personal needs.

The MyLee is CE/FCC certified according to requirements of a consumer electronics with Bluetooth capabilities.

MyLee is not a medical device, not intended to diagnose or treat a medical condition. As a breastfeeding aid product it may be covered by your insurance plan in certain cases and it's advised to check directly with your provider. However, As a product directly aiding breastfeeding the MyLee is FSA/HSA eligible and can generally be directly covered by your FSA/HSA plan.

Yes. As a product directly aiding breastfeeding the MyLee is FSA/HSA eligible and can generally be directly covered by your FSA/HSA plan. Search for possible direct FSA payment at checkout. Please note specific plans may differ and direct FSA payment may not always be available.

Search for possible direct FSA payment at checkout. Please note specific plans may differ and direct FSA payment may not always be available.

MyLee is not a medical device and it is not intended to diagnose or treat a medical condition. Never use the MyLee instead of a healthcare provider.

An error message means the scan couldn’t be made or couldn’t complete. Some of the errors are accompanied by Lights on the device itself. This might happen if the milk well isn’t fully filled, buttery issues, Bluetooth connectivity problems, or extreme temperatures.
When getting an error message Try these steps:

• Make sure the center of the milk well is completely filled
• Make sure the milk is room temperature
• Make sure your smartphone Bluetooth is on
• Wait for a stable blue light on the device indicating Bluetooth connected
• Wait at least 2 seconds between taping ‘connect’ to taping ‘scan’
• Don’t scan while the device is charging
• Try force-quitting and reopening the app
• Gently re-seat the device on the well and scan again

A valid scan result can appear in different color ranges (orange or shades of green) depending on the reading results relative to references.
Error results, however, if shown, often appear Gray.
If you're unsure, you can always send us a screenshot or the scan timestamp, we’re happy to review it with you.

Good question. Device errors usually accompany a short yellow blinking color on the device itself and indicate a physical issue like not enough milk in the well or extreme temperature. App errors may relate to Bluetooth issues or software hiccups. Or specific issues indicated in the error message. If you see repeated problems, try force-quitting the app and reconnecting the device. If you're still stuck, please contact us.