Most mom's and their children give a love nickname to their breastmilk. Ours was YeYe!
I love nursing! Isn't it a miracle that within women's breast blood turns to the perfect food for our children?
And it's even delightfully sweet! I believe it is not just an act of Love, when a mami nurses her baby, but that she is physically feeding Love to her baby :) Just thinking about it makes me get all nostalgic and I feel the Love within my own breasts stir.
Here is 12 tips on how to increase your breast milk supply :)
Understand it is best to combine several of these factors,
better yet try them all at the same time.
- Goat's Rue Herb works wonders! My friend last year from homeschooling co-op had her 4th child, but was having major issues with her breastmilk drying up. She tried everything with mediocre results, but the Goat's Rue Herb worked really!
- Make sure you are staying well-hydrated- this alone I have noticed will increase or decrease my milk supply
- Make sure you are eating enough calories from foods that are good for you, not just empty ones. Eat your greens, I prefer them in a raw powdered form that I add to water (but you can add it to freshly squeezed juice) in the morning :)
- Oatmeal does work. Try to eat it at breakfast and if you are hungry after supper
- Raw milk (preferably from cows that are100% pastured, raw butter, raw cream, raw cheeses, yogurt made from raw milk especially kefir (in Mexico my mom used to call them 'burgaros' I might be able to get some fresh and send them over, let me know if you want them) made from raw milk also works! If you can't get raw milk, then you might be able to get raw hard cheeses.
- Extra Virgin Raw Coconut Oil work up to 1 + TBsp per day. Start at 1/8th because it also helps you get rid of Candida, so it may make you a bit nauseous if you eat too much too soon.
- Make sure you are not too stressed or overworked or overtired as that will make your supply diminish, so the old-age advice of "resting when baby rests" is true, although not always possible :)
- Mother's milk tea they sell at the health food store helps. Fennel Tea also helps (which is in Mother's milk tea)
- Omega 3's in Flax seeds and oil, hemp seeds and oil, chia seeds and walnuts helps get that mama's milk yummy and abundant!
- Eat more soaked grains or grain milks and nut milks: I have some red hard wheat (but you can do it with any almost any grain and nut) that I soak overnight in water, drain, blend and then pass through a cheese cloth to get the milk - good for baby too around 9+months :) I also take some wheat and simmer overnight covered in enough water to make a delicious morning breakfast with milk and raw honey.
- Sardines, yes sardines :) They are one of the lowest contaminated fishes and if you get the ones with the bones in them you are receiving great calcium, iron and protein, plus Omega 3's!
- Breath deeply, mentally let go of the day, consciously relax your whole body and concentrate on envisioning the ducts in your breast open, see and feel the release of the love (milk)inside. Lightly caress, from your shoulder down with your fingertips. By doing this, I used to be able to consciously have a milk let down several times during a feeding, when the girls were infants :)
