Got YeYe?

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.

1. 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!
2. Make sure you are staying well-hydrated- this alone I have noticed will increase or decrease my milk supply
3. 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 :)
4. Oatmeal does work. Try to eat it at breakfast and if you are hungry after supper
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 :)
8. Mother's milk tea they sell at the health food store helps. Fennel Tea also helps (which is in Mother's milk tea)
9. 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!
10. 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.
11. 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!
12. 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 :)

Ice cream and Mothering Support

Yesterday, we treated the girls for some ice cream.
When we were in line, there was a young mother with a lil' babe and a 3.5 yr old girl.
She was flustered and had her hands full, my heart just went out to her, because I remember those days when Elise was only just a lil over 2 and Mckenna was first born. Those days Ryan worked so much and I often found myself alone with my 2 blessings :)
The baby in front of us was crying in the stroller and the mom was trying to order her food and ice cream. I automatically gave her a supportive look and smile and suggested that the baby needed to be picked up.
In the meantime, a chocolate icecream on a cone was handed to her and she handed it to her 3.5 yr old daughter, who started licking it from one side only, of course.

I just wanted to pick up the baby pay for her ice cream and have her sit down and enjoy her babies. But sometimes you don't know people and they might feel weird about that, so I just offered some supporting remark about the challanging adventure having a new baby and 3 yr old is :) Of course, I know about "those" adventures bc Christina is 3.5yrs old and Alana is 10 months now.
She shared that her daughter does not know how to behave around the baby and is often jealous and angry and treats it like a doll. I just shared that it is often helpful to talk to our children illuminating their importance as the "BIG SISTER OR BROTHER" and how their example to them is super important bc the baby will follow and copy their example.

Another good tip is to give them perks for being the "Big SISTER OR BROTHER" like being able to:
-stay up later
-watch tv
-eat Big Girl or Boy food
-eat Desserts
This will swell up their self esteem and see what a pleasure and priveledge it is to be the Big Sister and take it very seriously without ever becoming jealous or angry at the new sibling.

Back to my story: She finally pulled him out of the stroller and held him as she tried to pay. At that point, we saw that he was bleeding inside his mouth.
As we brought this to her attention, we gently suggested that he want to nurse.

Later, as we were sitting down and enjoying our icecream, she came up to me and thanked me for the support, especially for suggesting to carry the baby and nurse him. She said everybody she knows is anti-spoiling and carrying and all about letting babies cry it out.
She continued to confess that she sleeps with the new baby in one bedroom and her husband sleeps with their daughter in another room and said that she can't tell that to anyone she knows.

She went on to ask me how I help my children understand what I am talking about. I explained about Human Design and how I use it to specifically know each of my children down to their talents, emotional qualities, human tendencies and what they are here to be and do. I elaborated on how knowing my children so well helps me tweek my conversations with them and helps me create a unique parenting method for them that helps them excel and fully accept who they are here to be :)


I told her about Holistic Moms Network and what a great network and resource that has become in my life!
I boldy shared with her my belief that soon this "alternative, green, attachment parenting or what my husband and I coined as "Conscious Gatherings" will become the mainstream and right now she can check out groups like HMN, CSA's and Children's Gardens and find people like her!
Because truly it is about following your intuition and the highest truth will reveal itself and we know truth when we experience it!