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Original poster

am goign shopping later - what should i buy as a boost to milk production?

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Tutter · 21/10/2007 10:04

have had a couple of day rushing about and not drinking/sleeping enough

boobs suffering

anything i can pick up to help? have seen fenugreek mentioned here before i think...

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Tutter · 21/10/2007 10:28

bump

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stripeymama · 21/10/2007 10:45

Fennel tea, but mainly just try to eat plenty of healthy stuff. My mum always told me to eat almonds, no idea if they do really help but they are full of protein and good fats I suppose.

puppydavies · 21/10/2007 11:27

fenugreek, oats (porridge, flapjacks, hobnobs )

hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:28

Just feed more often. Buy biscuits and magazines

motherinferior · 21/10/2007 11:31

Yes, I'd say a copy of Grazia and some Green and Black chocolate biscuits will do you fine.

Miaou · 21/10/2007 11:32

My midwife gave me a recipe for something called Tiger milk (?) - I didn't keep it but has anyone else heard of it? From vague memory it is a smoothie-type thing with banana and yeast in it and the idea is that it boosts milk production. I'm sceptical myself but might be worth a try?

hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:34

They were the lines I was thinking along, MI. Grazia has some lovely boots this month [shallow]

Miaou · 21/10/2007 11:35

Think this is it:

Kathleen's recipe for Tiger's Milk...

Blend in the liquidiser...
1 cup cold milk
1 teaspoon brewers yeast
1 dessertspoon oil (cornflour)
1 tablespoon dried milk powder
few drops vanilla essence

While blending add 1 cup orange juice, serve at room temperature or very cold
Keeps for a day or two in the fridge.

Quantities are not critical - a little honey can be added.

tiktok · 21/10/2007 11:35

Rushing about and not drinking or sleeping will have no effect on your milk....but if you really, really think you have a problem, just feed your baby more!

Miaou · 21/10/2007 11:35

Can't see how it would work, mind you. I'd stick with the chocolate

motherinferior · 21/10/2007 11:36

DP, always respectful of my journalistic career, has returned from Sainsbury's with a copy. Apparently Victoria is Being Snubbed by the A-list, you know.

(I still can't get over working in an office where emails come round asking if anyone's got a copy of Grazia. For work.)

OneTrickMummy · 21/10/2007 11:36

Rest and drink lots!
If you feed regularly, your milk will be fine. Probably already is.

motherinferior · 21/10/2007 11:37

I have to say a nice glass of red wine (good for your Bones, you know) might be ahem relaxing too?

Miaou · 21/10/2007 11:38

I met a woman in the GP surgery waiting room on Friday when we were getting the babies inoculated - she told me she didn't have enough milk and was having to top up with bottles ... my heart sank .

hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:38

I bought it to accompany a tube journey yesterday

hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:39

Miaou, that's always tough - I find it far harder in RL to know what to say then. I can do it on here, because I can edit. But I have, in the past, said "How do you feel about that?" and taken it from there.

lispy · 21/10/2007 11:40

I just happened upon this site today. Don't know what the stuff is but she seemed committed!nonchalantmom.blogspot.com/
good luck

Sushipaws · 21/10/2007 11:43

Chocolate Ovaltine and a banana blended with full fat milk. Drink mid morning to give you a boost in the afternoon. I really notice when I don't have this.

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Tutter · 21/10/2007 11:48

thanks all

will feed more often (actually ds2 seems to be demanding thbis today anyway) and buy green and blkacks foier the hell of it

he's started going longer at night - mnaybe this is why boobs slowing down a bit?

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hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:48

I eat lemmings on toast.

You have to be careful to only use wheatgrass toadstools (they grow once a year, deep in Bavarian forests) to make the toast with though, or it just won't work.

And ensure that the lemmings are fresh - best if you ride out on unicorn each morning (before the dew has left the grass) to snare them (using willow lassoes fashioned by angels - I got mine on eBay, but think you'll have to apply direct to God now).

Or just feed more often.

Honestly, all this special recipe malarkey - I'd have gone (more) mental and stabbed myself in the head with a fork if I'd thought I had to do anything special to breastfeed. The more you do it, the more milk you make.

Hence this slightly sarky, hopefully helpful post

motherinferior · 21/10/2007 11:50

The G&B dark has Iron in it, which is essential for the breastfeeding laydee, you know.

verylittlecarrot · 21/10/2007 11:56

Okey doke.

hunkermunker · 21/10/2007 11:57

Caged lemmings, VLC?! Nooooooooooo! Fresh, free-range lemmings, only, ever.

verylittlecarrot · 21/10/2007 11:59

...but my HV said...!!!

tiktok · 21/10/2007 12:00

at hunkermunker!

Boo to special diets, special recipes, special tinctures, special supplements, special herbs, special flapjacks (!), special prayers (I kid you not.....), special thoughts, special chairs, special clothes, special cushions, special rooms.....sod the lot of them, as the net result is to make the whole process seem difficult, and, um, special (and in some cases, make you feel guilty for not sleeping, for not eating 'properly', for having a glass of wine).

It's just something mothers do, and have done for millennia, and might do a whole lot more easily in the 21st century if it wasn't all so freakin special.