Handpicked Recipes: Healthy foods for lactation support.
Breast milk is comprised of 95% sugar, 1-1.5% protein, and 3.5-4% fat- it is very low in both fat and protein! It is important then to eat an abundance of what comprises it, making a diet very focused on glucose and hydration best.
For mama, it is important to eat foods that will support lactation: you want a lot of glucose, trace mineral salts, low fat, and ample hydration. Foods that you can focus on include fruit (dates, mango, figs, cherries, pears, bananas, berries), raw honey, maple syrup, coconut water, celery juice, peas, sweet potatoes, potatoes, squash, avocado, butter leaf lettuce, and the Medical Medium healing broth. Avocado is very similar to breast milk, making it a great source of dietary fat while breastfeeding.
During the early stages of breastfeeding, focus on bland foods temporarily to help your baby avoid digestive issues. This would look like avoiding spice, zero caffeine, withholding from Medical Medium no foods (foods to avoid for healing chronic illness), and limiting onions and garlic.
You have done such a great job of building your fertility and health to get you to where you are today. Cleansing unproductive hormones from your endocrine system, building up your glucose reserves, balancing your hormones, learning everything you can, and supporting yourself through pregnancy is no small feat. These handpicked recipes for lactation support will help you continue that momentum into postpartum so you can recover from pregnancy and birth while producing milk for your baby.
A diet high in fat and protein, and low in carbohydrates, is often recommended by specialists, or adopted by women to hastily return to their pre-pregnancy shape. In the beginning phases of postpartum, you want to hold off and focus on nutrition instead of weight. Remember that the healing recipes listed here are handpicked for you as the best options for lactation support.
You will see that the majority of these recipes are low in fat and high in healthy carbohydrates- note that a diet high in fat and protein can cause strain on breast milk supply. I have helped many women recover a dwindling breast milk supply by simply having them add more potatoes to their diet. The power of carbohydrates and their effect on breast milk should not be overlooked!
For the recipes that contain onion and garlic, feel free to halve the amount or keep them out completely.
8) Butternut & Kabocha Squash Soup
The Power of Celery Juice: Strengthen adrenals after birth and nourish baby while.
Celery juice is a powerful nutritional supplement for women to bring in while they are breastfeeding. This is due to its ability to strengthen and recover your adrenals following birth, and provide sodium cluster salts for your babies’ brain development. Birth requires superhero amounts of adrenaline supplied by your adrenal glands. The “push” that you feel during labor is actually a surge of adrenaline!
During breastfeeding, a mother’s consumption of celery juice is very nourishing for the baby. You don’t need to worry that the detox celery juice brings about will lead to toxins in the breast milk. Quite the opposite. A woman’s breast milk is usually filled with a variety of toxins to begin with, since so many people’s livers are sluggish, stagnant, and overburdened from a lifetime of exposure to toxic heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, petrochemicals, cosmetics, solvents, hair dye, colognes, perfumes, and more. When these troublemakers build up in the liver, they tend to end up in the breast milk. Now, when celery juice is on the scene, its powerful components also tend to end up in the breast milk, and they defuse, disarm, and disable the toxins- neutralizing them so that they’re less destructive and even helping remove some of these toxins from the breast milk altogether. At the same time celery juice helps create clean breast milk, it provides its critical sodium cluster salts for the baby’s brain development as well as viable vitamins, trace minerals, and other nutrients to keep the baby healthy. -Medical Medium Celery Juice, by Anthony William
Herbs Best for Breastfeeding: Increase the quantity and nutrition of your milk.
Red raspberry leaf, cumin, nettle leaf, red clover, and fenugreek are the top herbs for breastfeeding mothers. Red raspberry leaf, for example, is probably the most popular herb you will hear people drinking throughout pregnancy. It is great for postpartum, too. After birth, it will help with fatigue, exhaustion, and postpartum depression. It is known to increase milk supply and will fortify your milk with vitamins and minerals the baby needs.
After the event of birth, your adrenal glands need to be restored- look to nettle leaf to do just this! Nettle leaf supports the entire endocrine system- adrenals, ovaries, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, pancreas, and thymus. Nettle leaf expels toxic estrogen, provides minerals, and supports healthy reproductive health.
Go here for my Mother’s Milk Tea recipe.
The Angel of Mother’s Milk: Call on this angel out loud for support.
This angel protects a new mother’s milk supply and allows for communication between mother and baby during breastfeeding. One of her responsibilities is to change the nutrient profile of the breast milk in order to suit the baby’s needs in the moment. -Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods, by Anthony William
Check out these other blogs I have made to address breastfeeding and milk supply:
7 Foods for Fertility and Lactation– includes a custom tea, juice, and smoothie recipe for breastfeeding mothers.
Exposing 7 Breastfeeding Myths
5 Tips for Successful Breastfeeding
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