This post was on the ICAN list and thought your new moms might find it helpful for breastfeeding.
Gloria Lemay, Vancouver BC
These cookies rock for lactation:
Housepoet's Famous Lactation Boosting Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip & Flaxseed
cookies
Ingredients :
* 1 cup butter
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 4 tablespoons water
* 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal*
* 2 large eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 cups flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups oats, thick cut if you can get them
* 1 cup or more chocolate chips
* 2 tablespoons of brewers yeast* (be generous)
Directions:
Preheat oven at 375 degrees F. Mix together 2 tablespoons of flaxseed meal
and water, set aside for 3-5 minutes. Cream (beat well) margarine and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time, mix well. Stir flaxseed mixture and add with vanilla
to the margarine mix. Beat until blended. Sift together dry ingredients,
except oats and chips. Add to margarine mixture. Stir in oats then chips.
Scoop or drop onto baking sheet, preferably lined with parchment or silpat.
The dough is a little crumbly, so it helps to use a scoop.
Bake 8-12 minutes, depending on size of cookies.
Serves: 6 dozen cookies
Preparation time: 15 minutes
*can be found at any local health food store.
**NOTE** *IT MUST BE BREWERS YEAST, NO SUBSTITUTIONS.
*If you don't like chocolate chips, it can be any sort of sweet chip-like
thing. (Peanut butter chips, butterscotch, whatever you like!) And I imagine
that you could even sub with nuts if you wanted! But those cookies?
Seriously, the BEST EVER.
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Other than that, find a good Lactation Consultant, start going to LLL meetings, and after
baby's here, add Brewers Yeast & Flax into EVERYTHING thats baked. Eat
steel-cut oatmeal in the mornings with Brewer's Yeast & Flax on top. Fenugreek (after
baby is here!) will leave you smelling like a bottle of maple syrup, but it
definitely gets the job done. I've heard that "Mothers Milk" is really awesome
- I've never used it. Everyone's got really awesome suggestions though, I'm
just really piping up with the cookie recipe! :)
And Lansinoh lanolin really helps with the soreness for the first 6 weeks or
so. (And beyond!)
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