For postpartum & breastfeeding moms

Looking for a Mealime Alternative While Breastfeeding?

Meal planning can help, but postpartum life does not always follow the plan.

Mayra+ helps postpartum and breastfeeding moms make the next food and wellness decision based on their postpartum stage, breastfeeding status, hunger, hydration, and what they have already eaten.

Available on Web + Android. iOS coming soon.

Mayra+ app home screen asking 'Not sure what to eat right now?' with quick options such as Very hungry, Craving sugar, Ate but still hungry, Skipped meals, Low energy and Overwhelmed

The Mayra+ home screen

Meal Planning Is Only Part of the Postpartum Problem

A weekly meal plan assumes your week will go roughly to plan. With a new baby, it rarely does. Feeds run long, naps get skipped, and the dinner you planned on Sunday can turn into a handful of crackers at 4pm.

  • Meals happening hours later than planned
  • Breastfeeding hunger showing up out of nowhere
  • Realising you haven't had water since breakfast
  • Cravings that hit hardest when you're running on empty
  • Meal prep interrupted halfway through
  • A schedule that changes as your baby does

None of this means you've failed at planning. It means the most useful question in postpartum life is often a smaller one:

“What should I eat next?”

Mayra+ is designed around helping you answer that question, in the moment you're actually in, rather than the one you planned for.

Mealime and Mayra+ Solve Different Problems

Traditional meal-planning apps like Mealime are built to help you plan meals, find recipes, organise your grocery shopping and decide what to cook. That's genuinely useful, and plenty of people love it.

Mayra+ has a different focus. It's built around postpartum and breastfeeding life, and around day-to-day guidance for the decision in front of you.

Traditional meal-planning tools may focus on

  • Weekly meal planning
  • Recipes
  • Grocery planning
  • Deciding what to cook

Mayra+ focuses on

  • Postpartum-aware guidance
  • Breastfeeding context
  • What-to-eat-next guidance
  • Hunger check-ins
  • Hydration tracking
  • Food intake tracking
  • Gentle weight-loss support
  • Gentle, postpartum-friendly daily movement

Mealime is a trademark of its respective owner. Mayra+ is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mealime.

Mayra+ Looks at Your Day So Far

Instead of starting from a fixed plan, Mayra+ starts from where you are. A quick check-in can take into account things like your postpartum stage, whether you're breastfeeding, what you've already eaten, how hungry you feel, how much water you've had, and any food preferences or allergies you've shared.

From there, it suggests a sensible next step: what to eat now, what might help later, and a simple plan for the rest of your day. The goal is to make the next decision easier, not to hold you to a perfect plan you never agreed to.

You can read more about how Mayra+ check-ins and guidance work on our homepage.

  • Postpartum stageWhere you are in your recovery
  • Breastfeeding statusExclusive, combo feeding, occasional, or not breastfeeding
  • What you've eatenYour recent meals and snacks
  • Hunger levelHow hungry you feel right now
  • HydrationWater logged today
  • Preferences & allergiesThings like dairy-free or nut allergy

Breastfeeding Is Part of the Experience

Mayra+ was built around postpartum and breastfeeding life, not adapted from a general diet app. Breastfeeding often comes with bigger appetites, unexpected hunger and a greater need for water, and Mayra+ keeps that in mind instead of treating it as an afterthought.

That means guidance that encourages you to eat regularly rather than skip meals, a daily hydration goal that's higher when you tell us you're breastfeeding, and a tone that's kind about late-night snacks and hard days.

If you have a weight-loss goal, Mayra+ supports a gentle, gradual approach. It doesn't encourage crash dieting.

Mayra+ offers general wellness guidance and is not medical advice. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. Results vary from person to person. Please talk to your doctor, midwife or a lactation consultant about questions on milk supply, nutrition or your recovery.

More Than Meal Planning

Hydration

Log water with a tap and see how you're doing against a daily goal, which is set higher if you're breastfeeding.

Available now

Hunger and cravings

Tap how you feel, such as very hungry, craving sugar or ate but still hungry, and get practical guidance on what to reach for next. You can also chat with Mayra+ any time, including at 3am.

Available now

Food intake

Log what you ate and when. Mayra+ uses it in your check-ins and shows a live timer since your last meal, so you can get ahead of hunger instead of chasing it.

Available now

Progress

Track your weight if you choose to, see your trend over time, and read weekly and monthly insights based on your check-ins.

Available now

Postpartum movement

A few gentle, postpartum-friendly exercises each day, such as breathing, pelvic floor and core connection work, each with modifications and safety notes. Check with your provider before starting exercise after birth.

Available now Exercise videos coming soon

Is Mayra+ a Direct Replacement for Mealime?

Not exactly.

If you mainly want a large recipe library, weekly meal plans and automatic grocery lists, a dedicated meal-planning tool may suit you better, and that's completely fine.

Mayra+ is for postpartum and breastfeeding moms who want help with what happens between the plans: what to eat now, how to handle hunger and cravings, whether you've had enough water, how you're progressing, and what your next step should be. Some moms use both, with a meal planner for the weekly shop and Mayra+ for the day-to-day decisions.

You Don’t Need Another Perfect Plan.

You need support that can adapt when real postpartum life changes the plan.

Mayra+ helps you decide what comes next.

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