Lactation cookies

[RedButterfly]

When is the best time to start eating them? As I've read you can eat them during pregnancy. I am not going through the same thing as I did with my other 3 children!

 

[cscbeth8421]

you can eat them any time, but i dont believe it will have much effect on your milk supply till your milk supply comes in.

 

[Smanderson]

Not related to cookies but I used fenugreek tablets and it really increased my supply. only took them once milk came in after ds was born

 

[purelygemini]

What are those? Never heard of them! I'm assuming it helps with your supply but I would love to hear more

 

[RedButterfly]

Help increase your supply. That's all I know Sorry, not much help!

 

[Itsychik]

I agree with a PP, the lactation cookies aren't likely to help until you are already producing milk.

With my first baby I had a low supply and had to supplement (I tried nearly everything to increase and nothing helped--I was devastated!) so with my second I was pretty fanatical about trying to keep supply up and tried a ton of things too (fortunately, had no issues the second time!) and while I don't think the lactation cookies actually helped my supply much, it didn't hurt to try!

Below is a recipe that a friend sent me that I used (although if you google around, you'll find lots of recipes). The "important" ingredients are the brewers yeast and the flax seed which are supposed to help with supply.

Lactation Cookies (using American measurements...)

3 cups oats
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 cups chocolate chips ( increased from 1 cup)
1 cup butter
4 tbsp water
2-4 TBSP brewers yeast ( i used 4 heaping tbsp)
2 TBSP flax seed meal ( you mix this with the 4 tbsp water)
1 tsp vanilla ( I don't measure. Mine is probably more like a tbsp)
1 TBSP cinnamon (increased from 1 tsp. I dont measure this either)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 F / 175 C

Mix Flax seed meal with water.

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs, adding eggs one at a time. Then mix in Flax seed mix.

Mix together flour, soda and salt in separate bowl.

Combine flour mixture with butter mixture. Add in oats and chocolate chips (or other mix ins such as raisins. You may want to decrease chocolate chips if adding a lot of other mix ins) Dough will be thick and seem almost too dry at first until it is fully mixed.

Bake 8-12 minutes

 

[cscbeth8421]

I agree with a PP, the lactation cookies aren't likely to help until you are already producing milk.

With my first baby I had a low supply and had to supplement (I tried nearly everything to increase and nothing helped--I was devastated!) so with my second I was pretty fanatical about trying to keep supply up and tried a ton of things too (fortunately, had no issues the second time!) and while I don't think the lactation cookies actually helped my supply much, it didn't hurt to try!

Below is a recipe that a friend sent me that I used (although if you google around, you'll find lots of recipes). The "important" ingredients are the brewers yeast and the flax seed which are supposed to help with supply.

Lactation Cookies (using American measurements...)

3 cups oats
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 cups chocolate chips ( increased from 1 cup)
1 cup butter
4 tbsp water
2-4 TBSP brewers yeast ( i used 4 heaping tbsp)
2 TBSP flax seed meal ( you mix this with the 4 tbsp water)
1 tsp vanilla ( I don't measure. Mine is probably more like a tbsp)
1 TBSP cinnamon (increased from 1 tsp. I dont measure this either)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 F / 175 C

Mix Flax seed meal with water.

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs, adding eggs one at a time. Then mix in Flax seed mix.

Mix together flour, soda and salt in separate bowl.

Combine flour mixture with butter mixture. Add in oats and chocolate chips (or other mix ins such as raisins. You may want to decrease chocolate chips if adding a lot of other mix ins) Dough will be thick and seem almost too dry at first until it is fully mixed.

Bake 8-12 minutes

I LOVE to hear that you had a better experience with your second! I too had a hard time with the first and did double duty (both formula and breast feeding/pumping from day one). He also had some health issues and jaundice so that set us back. I tried everything! Fenugreek, dark beer, lactation cookies (sometimes too many! soo good), mothers milk tea, power pumping, lactation consultants....gave up at 4 mos when i could only pump 2oz total all day at work. But i gave him what i had. This makes me hopeful this time around could be different. Will give it all i have again, and hopefully be more relaxed (though with a toddler running around, a whole different ball game. )