Improving Breast Milk

Food to Increase Breast Milk

As a nursing mom, you want to nurture your baby with everything you can—from your care, attention, and affection to your breastmilk. That’s why you try to keep yourself healthy and nourished too. A breastfeeding mom needs all the energy she can muster and that she has enough milk to feed her little one. But if you’re not sure you have enough, you need to see a lactation consultant or nutritionist as they can evaluate if you are producing enough breastmilk.

 

We have a list of some of the foods and herbs that have been found to help increase the quantity and quality of breastmilk and have been tried and assessed by nursing moms:

 

1. Barley. It’s the richest source of beta-glucan, a polysaccharide that’s been shown to increase prolactin (the breastfeeding hormone) in humans and animals. You can add barley to your soup, salads, and stews. Or if you still have time to bake, use barley flakes in your homemade bread.


2. Fennel and fenugreek. Fennel the vegetable, and fenugreek, its seeds contain phytoestrogens. They’re believed to increase breastmilk production. Fenugreek is more known as it’s been used for hundreds of years by lactating moms in India and some parts of the Middle East. You can eat fennel raw as it’s delicious by itself or toss it with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and you’re good to go.

You can make your own lactation herbal tea with fenugreek: rinse the seeds (around one teaspoon per cup of water), boil water in a pot, transfer the seeds to the boiling water, steep the seeds for around 3 minutes, and voila! You have your own fenugreek tea! But if you want a tastier lactation tea using fenugreek, add cinnamon, fennel, nettle leaf, red raspberry leaf, and dandelion.

 

3. Oats. It’s the second richest source of beta-glucan, after barley. So yes, you can use oats in your muffins, cookies, and crumbles! There are lots of recipes online where you can add oats in or, better yet, why not check out what Milky Mothers has for you! Our lactation cookies have oats and other nutrients that help you produce breastmilk.

 

4. Whole grains. Aside from barley and oats, you’ll find brown rice and whole wheat rich in beta-glucan. Use whole wheat instead of regular wheat when making bread, pancakes, and muffins; substitute brown rice for white anywhere you would use it.

 

5. Brewer’s yeast. This is an ingredient commonly found in lactation snacks and is commonly recommended as a milk booster. It is high in B vitamins, iron, protein, chromium, and selenium. It tastes very bitter so use a small amount when baking some goods like cookies and muffins.

 

Just for additional information, here are other foods that may help increase milk production: dill, apricots, asparagus, garlic, red beets, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, anise seeds, and coriander seeds.

 

At Milky Mothers, we make sure you get all the premium ingredients in every pack of our lactation cookies. They are made to support the needs of breastfeeding mothers and manufactured in a high-grade food production facility that’s been manufacturing food for over more than 40 years in Victoria, Australia.

 

               

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These taste amazing and they have helped alot of my supply i highly recommend.
Im obsessed thank you so much. :)

Meets expectation

This is my second order.Does not taste like a punishment for the result it gives.

Absolutely recommend!

These cookies are amazing! They are so so tasty and I cannot pick a favourite flavour. I highly recommend, I have 2-3 per day and I feel my milk supply has benefited from it, 10/10!

Excellent service and very helpful cookies

Excellent service and very helpful cookies.
It worked like magic. This is our second courier for Milky Mothers. Every penny worthy.

The best cookies

I have tried three different brands of cookies since breast feeding and this brand has the best tasting cookies by far and we’re also the least expensive of the three! They are so good I can’t wait to have it in the morning with my coffee

Delicious

I ordered the bundle pack so I get to try a range of cookies and I’m only 2 packets in but I have to stop myself and ration because I cannot stop eating these delicious cookies!

Amazing cookies

This pack really helped me produce more milk! So delicious too!

Loved it

Bought the pack with 3. Choc chip my absolutely favourite followed by the white chocolate - for my surprise as I’m not into white chocolate usually.

The flavour is delicious! Happy with.

Amazing and great customer service

It’s yummy and couldn’t help myself from eating it. I’ve tried all of it and both triple chocolate and milk chocolate are the best for me also they actually work.

The CSR Mick is very accommodating and has a great customer service.

They actually work!!!

These cookies are not only delicious but they actually work!! I am 1 week postpartum and my milk supply is insane. I expressed 200mls from one side and 140 from the other and that was after a feed!! I highly recommend this product and I highly encourage you buy in bulk to try all the yummy flavours!! My fav is the Caramilk and Birthday Cake 🎂

My go to middle of the night breastfeeding snack!

I really enjoyed the caramilk and triple choc flavours. I don't love the birthday cake one. These cookies are Filling and effective 👌

Have bought these cookies a million times

As title says, I have purchased and eaten these cookies many times over the past few years while feeding both of my little ones. My supply always jumps up within a couple of days, and they are by far the best tasting cookies on the market for lactation. I have tried chocolate chip, white chocolate, and triple chocolate, and while I rotate them all a little bit, my fave is still probably the triple choc! I also buy them for my breast-feeding, Mum friends and they all love them too!

Absolutely love these

I didn’t like these as much as the choc chip ones, but still nice

Yummy

Kept my supply healthy and my baby happy ! Taste great

Yummy

Great biscuits had kept my supply healthy and my Bub happy

Yummy

Great biscuits has helped keep my supply healthy and my bubba happy ❤️

Yummy

Loved this flavour. Extra crunch with the sprinkles. One one of my favourites

Tried lots, but this brand omg!!

I’ve tried lots of different lactation cookies but these are soo yummy. My favourite actually surprised me with the white chocolate and caramilk. Delicious, have gone and reordered these.

These really exceeded my expectations. The cookies are tasty, thick and indulgent.

Delicious!

Have ordered from here multiple times for multiple breastfeeding periods and they have been amazing every time! Have tried multiple flavours but caramilk wins every time!

Birthday cake soo delicious could not put them down