https://breastfeedingworld.org/2015/09/milk-flowin-lactation-cookies-recipe/ Spreading the Breastfeeding Love, One Latch at a Time Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://breastfeedingworld.org/2015/09/milk-flowin-lactation-cookies-recipe/#comment-163 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:41:58 +0000 http://breastfeedingworld.org/?p=1202#comment-163 Disappointed to see this article! 
Lactation cookies are not health food. 
They will not help you lose the pregnancy weight. 
They will not help you stop the daycare from overfeeding your baby. 
They won’t stop from your baby from being at fussy at night. 
They won’t fix your baby’s tongue tie. 
They won’t address health conditions that affect affect milk supply, like thyroid conditions, PCOS, and insulin resistance. Moms with some of these conditions produce more milk on cookie-free low-carb-diets.
Please don’t caught up in the trap of thinking that milk supply is mostly driven by your diet, and that if you’re drowning yourself in water and eating lactation cookies, you’re doing everything to boost milk supply.
It’s simply not true!
If you’re worried about milk supply, what should you do?
Don’t start by changing your diet — start by nursing/pumping more often and getting breastfeeding help.    Here’s a great article to help you figure out if your supply is really low: http://www.emmapickettbreastfeedingsupport.com/twitter-and-blog/low-milk-supply-101
If you do have reason to believe your baby is not getting enough milk:  don’t spend the first your first hour you know that making lactation cookies!  Spend that time researching lactation consultants and finding out who’s best in your area, and calling them.  That’s going so much better of a use of your time, because a lactation consultant can give you a plan specifically tailored to your unique situation.  Here’s where to find a lactation consultant: www.ilca.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3432

]]>