The raw batter is delicious! I made these yesterday, so far no change. Ah well, they taste good. BUT they are adding to my already generous butt!
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The raw batter is delicious! I made these yesterday, so far no change. Ah well, they taste good. BUT they are adding to my already generous butt!
Noms... guess what I'm gonna make this week. :D
I made choc chip and dried apricot last night... yummy!
:happydance: i love these things!! made a heap yesterday, and ate some dough aswell oh yum! first time in a week ive been full, and bubs got boobie drunk!
awating ds1's verdict as i forgiot to do his recess so put some in his lunch box!
I told dh I was going to make lactation cookies and assumed it was made on breastmilk. I told him I could do that if he wanted. Either way, he's not eating them! More for me!
The health food shop said flaxseed was linseed (or something).... :dunno: hope she's right.
Haha! my df calls them my boob cookies, and wont try them for fear of making his own boob milk:rofl:... he even tried to give one to the dog to see if she would start lactating:shakehead:
Would it hurt to start on these now before the babies are here? I keep looking at the recipe and they sound so good!!
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Would it hurt to start them even before you're pregnant!!!!????
yummy!!!
I was going to ask... can you eat them while pregnant? Like at the end.. to hope boost things up in the early days? Oh that sounds like a dumb question :hide:
Im sure you would be able to. Nothing harmful in there :)
Kelly, if you have any Getting Pregnant Cookie recipes feel free to post!!!!
As long as you are aware the mix, uncooked, has raw egg. But the cookies... go for it!
should add, make sure you have a BIG mixing bowl, i had to resort to the big stew pot-mid mixing as my mixing bowl wasnt big enough!! (theres alot of ingredients!!
I'm gonna try making these for my very first ABA meeting :D
Or is that a little corny...?
Do it WMM! You'll definitely be invited back :D
So what's everyones verdict do they really boost supply - I've always had supply issues now have to feed two soon so researching EVERYTHING!
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Yum,you've made me hungry.
I will have to give these a go.
Thanks Kelly.
Okay I made a poll, I don't know how scientific it will be since you are probably all eating varying quantities - 1 bowlful or 3 LOL. But just something to get an idea. :)
i made them yesterday as the last week i noticed they havent been 'restocking' so to speak, dd was weighed and only put on 100g in 9 days, her earlier gain was 350 in 10days.
i ate the dogh and a boot load of cookies, and they were almost bursting this morning and bub was boobie drunk for the first time all week at each feed today, so im going with a yes for them working.
baked cookies or raw dough they increased my milk supply :) i've successfully fed my son EBM for 6months
:dance: They work!!
But obviously I cant read the recipe, coz I forgot the brown sugar! Still taste good though!
It's difficult to measure how much milk DD is getting and I have supply issues after breast reduction surgery. Generally, DD has 6-8 BF's a day (plus cluster feeds in the evening) and around 200-250mls of formula per day. I baked the cookies last night and have eaten about six (smallish) cookies today as well as a couple last night and some of the batter. I did go pretty heavy on the flaxseed and the brewer's yeast! Anyway, Today DD has refused any more than about 60mls total of formula and has been very settled after a breast feed. Lots of 'milk mouth' when she pulled off today (oooh... I love that milk mouth!) and she also didn't cluster feed as much this evening and has now nodded off to sleep, hopefully for the night!
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that I'm pretty sure my supply has increased today and the only thing I have done differently is eat the cookies... so I reckon they work!!
just a quick question - I haven't been able to find any flaxseed meal down my way, got one more place to check for it on wedesday, is there anything that I can use instead of the flaxseed if the last place I'm going to doesn't have it either?
I think that the flaxmeal is one of the things that make it work? Not sure of a replacement, sorry. Fingers crossed you get your hands on some.
I got mine in my Healthy Life shop. Maybe try ordering online if you can't find any?
LSA mix - you can get that in the healthfood section of coles & woolies. It's ground almond, sunflower & linseed (which is flaxseed).
Going to give these a go when I get out of hospital
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MammaSue - Thanks darl
Entreat - Thanks heaps, I walked right past it the other day thinking "they have every kind of meal except one labelled with flaxseed" lol Now I'll be able to mke them tomorrow afternoon! FXed they work, I want to cut out the extra FF we've had to add and try to get back down to only 2 FF's again :)
I think I was told that the brewer's yeast was the key, and that you can just chuck it in with OJ or whatever and drink it like a tonic ... maybe call your local lactation consultant and ask?
they only worked with the first batch on me :( but there still yummy.
yeah, I found the impact was less & less each batch. But at almost 11 months, I think our supply is steady by now!
I made a batch yesterday morning, I've had to get up this early to express, I woke up feeling very full and leaky and uncomfortable!! So they have definately made a difference :D
I going to make these today! Mmmmm
Where do you get brewers yeast from?
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I got mine from a health food store (the flaxseed as well), but you can also get it from Big W in the home brewing section.
Thanks :D
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yep i bought both the brewer yeast and flaxseed from the health food store, although since i stopped expressing they are both just sitting in my cupboard unused
Just made my first batch, wasn't keen on the dough raw the brewers yeast was over powering as I took note of the be generous lol
Packed a zip lock bag full of them to take to hospital with me. Will let you know if/when they take effect
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This batch I used a combo of dry brewers yeast from Woolies and fresh brewers yeast from DH's brew trub (he saves it for me) I used glace cherries, chocolate chips, desiccated coconut and cocoa to make them Cherry Ripe flavoured.
My boobs are spraying like a fire hose. I am waking up wet in the night in a way I haven't since the early durly days. They are mental.
I haven't had an increase, my supply has actually dropped a bit but I think that that is because the night that I made them my wisdom decided that enough was enough with the peasized cavities and had me in agony so I didn't get to express much over the next few days... but, I have noticed that my milk is creamier after eating them (eg I get more hind milk than normal whereas normally I have HEAPS of foremilk and only a small amount of hindmilk) and I think they are helping a little bit in my attemps to get my supply back up too (I can feel letdown a lot more now than I used to before eating them).
Oh that combo sounds really nice I'll have to use that!!
It's hard to tell if they worked for me as my boobs are full a lot today as I haven't been expressing due to the boys being 100% breastfed now and they only drink around 50ml each every 3-4 hours where I was expressing 3 times that
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