Lactation Recipes to Increase Milk Supply in Breastfeeding Moms
Recipes to Increase Breast Milk in Lactating Mothers
Milk supply is something that is commonly on your mind postpartum. Will I make enough breastmilk? How can I increase my lactation naturally? Is baby getting enough milk? There are a lot of easy to make and tasty recipes to increase milk supply quickly!
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How Important is Nutrition for Your Breast Milk Supply?
The foods you eat during breastfeeding are vitally important for keeping a high supply that is nutritionally dense. After four years of breastfeeding, I’ve come to find some amazing foods and supplements that can increase your supply quickly!
Using lactogenic foods in your recipes can be a fast way to increase lactation naturally. While you are lactating your body’s primary focus is feeding your baby.
Ultimately, your body will continue to create breastmilk even if you undereat as it is primarily focused on nourishing your baby. But if you undereat or do not choose nutritionally dense foods, your breast milk supply will be less than it could be and the nutritional density of the breastmilk may be decreased.
To Keep Your Breast Milk Supply High:
- Include a lot of lactogenic foods in your diet to increase milk supply
- Consider adding supplements that are known to increase breast milk
- Try to include lactation recipes like the huge list below in your diet
- Include a protein powder designed to increase lactation into your diet.
My Favorite Lactation Recipes to Increase Breastmilk
There are a lot of great recipes out there that include lactogenic foods to increase breast milk supply all over the internet!
My personal favorites are:
- Lactation Smoothies
- Lactation Cookies
- Lactogenic Energy Balls
- Overnight Oats
Being my favorites, of course, I’ve created a roundup for each specific one you can check out in the links above! Except for lactation cookies! I think I’ll have to get to that post next.
I am a sucker for protein shakes because they can pack so nutrition into one glass with only a few minutes of prep, so naturally lactation smoothies are my favorite way to keep my milk supply high.
There are amazing protein powders safe for breastfeeding mamas that can also pump up your milk supply and increase its nutritional density! My absolute favorite protein powder for pregnancy and breastfeeding is Ora Organic.
Ora Organics So Lean and So Clean’s ingredient list is beyond clean and a lot of the nutrients help to increase lactation. Not to mention, they include greens (that you can’t even taste) and digestive enzymes too!
But there are a handful of high-quality protein powders safe for breastfeeding that you can add into your breastfeeding smoothies to increase your nutrition and the nutrients in your breastmilk!
You can add them into tasty breastfeeding smoothies like this blueberry lactation smoothie to increase breastmilk better than lactation cookies!
21 Tasty Recipes to Increase Lactation in Milky Mamas
These recipes are split into categories to make it easier for you to find exactly what you want to pump up your milk supply.
Lactation Smoothies
1. Oatmeal and Banana Lactation Smoothie for Breastfeeding Moms from What MJ Loves
2. Lactation Brownie Batter Protein Smoothie from Joyful Messes
3. Tropical Milk Boosting Smoothie from Vigor it Out
4. Blueberry Boobie Smoothie from Bun Maternity
5. Strawberry Banana Lactation Smoothie from Exclusive Pumping
6. Green Lactation Smoothie from Detoxinista
7. Double Chocolate Lactation Protein Shake from Vigor it Out
8. Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Lactation Smoothie for Breastfeeding from We’re Parents
9. Raspberry Mandarin Green Smoothie for Lactation from Vigor it Out
Lactation Cookies to Increase Breastmilk Supply
Photo from: The Analytical Mommy
10. My Favorite Lactation Cookie from the Analytical Mommy
11. The Healthiest Lactation Cookie Recipe Ever from Vigor it Out
12. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies from Simplistically Living
13. The Best M & M Lactation Cookies from Exclusive Pumping
14. Easy No Bake Lactation Cookies for Breastfeeding Moms from It’s a Mother Thing
15. Soft and Chewy White Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies from The Lactation Nutritionist
16. Basic Lactation Cookies Recipe from All Recipes
Lactogenic Galactagogue Filled Energy Balls
17. No Bake Peanut Butter and Chocolate Lactation Energy Balls from Love Jenny Blog
18. The Most Lactogenic Energy Balls Ever from Vigor it Out
19. Some of the Best DIY Lactation Energy Bites from Birth Eat Love
20. No Bake Chocolate Chip Lactation Bites from The Baker Mama
21. Date and Oat Lactation Energy Bites (Vegan) from Detoxina
Wrapping Up Recipes to Increase Breastmilk
These are some of the tastiest lactation boosting recipes around so I hope you find some new favorites! While breastfeeding it is important to nourish your body consistently throughout the day.
Breastfeeding makes you hungry! For me, even more than pregnancy does (except for that first trimester, I’m always voracious then).
To healthy-up any of these recipes that call for sugar to keep your waistline slim (or to help get it there again postpartum), you can always substitute it with an equal amount of stevia in the raw. Available in most grocery stores.
More Recipes to Bost Lactation from Vigor it Out
- Overnight Oats to Increase Breastmilk Supply
- Morning Blueberry Lactation Smoothie
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Lactation Smoothie and Blueberry Delight Lactation Smoothies (scroll to the bottom of the post)
Recipes to Increase Breast Milk in Lactating Mothers
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