Saturday, 06 March 2010
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Lactation Cookies for Nursing Moms!
One of my doula friends gave me this recipe when I was having supply issues. It really does help with your milk supply, plus they are really YUMMY!! They aren't strictly for women who are nursing, anyone can enjoy them, they just have extra ingredients which encourage milk supply.
The ingredients that help with milk supply are oatmeal, brewers yeast and flaxseed meal so make sure not to substitute those for anything else!
This recipe makes a ton of cookies. Last time I made it I had a little over 6 dozen. I made them for my sister-in-law who is due any day with baby number 2. It was a great activity to get her 3 year old son involved in as well.
Happy baking!!!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
4 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons flax seed meal
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups oats
1 cup chocolate chips
2-4 tablespoons brewer's yeastPreheat oven to 350°.
1. Mix the flaxseed meal and water and let sit for 3-5 minutes.
2. Beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar well.
3. Add eggs and mix well.
4. Add flaxseed mix and vanilla; beat well.
5. Sift together flour, brewer's yeast, baking soda, and salt.
6. Add dry ingredients to butter mix.
7. Stir in oats and chips.
8. Scoop onto baking sheet.
9. Bake for 12 minutes.
10. Let set for a couple minutes then remove from trayHave you ever tried lactation cookies before? What other foods/products have helped you to increase your milk supply?
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That would be a good recipe if I wasn't deathly allergic to oats. I wonder if anything else can be substituted...
@nickiesneon@xanga - you can make them without the oats and add a little bit of fenugreek if you want. The fenugreek is a spice that tastes like maple syrup.
I've never tried these, but I will definitely recommend them to my friends. Thanks for the recipe!
@nickiesneon@xanga - Yes...as someone suggested, fenugreek is wonderful! :)
I though pregnant women couldn't have flaxseed...
I may be crazy, but I swear I read that pregnant women should avoid it.
@RainDropPixie@xanga - Flaxseed oil in high amounts or consumed daily is considered by some doctors to be dangerous and can lead to miscarriages/birth defects. As far as I know, there have been no human studies done so it's really a preference thing and what women are comfortable with. I've known several women who have taken flax throughout their pregnancies with no issue.
Flaxseed meal (in this recipe) is such a small amount that it wouldn't be a large enough dose to effect a pregnancy.
But also, pregnant women wouldn't need these until the very end of their pregnancy or afterward, since they are for milk production.
Recipe sounds great. I didn't know about some concerns about flaxseed, will ask our dr about it next month.
@XxFireXboltxX@xanga - Oh okay, well that is good to know. I guess if you're full term, you're not too concerned with miscarrying lol.
I wondered if these cookies really worked. I read about the recipe on the internet when I was having supply issues - I took fenugreek and it worked, but I also had bad reactions while take larger doses. I could only find the brewer's yeast at one store. It was only available in 3 lb boxes and cost about $30. I was hesitant to spend that kind of money for something I knew nothing about.
@TexasBorn_TexasBred@xanga - I have to be careful with fenugreek in large doses too. I take the lowest dose possible recommended on the kellymom.com website.
That is really a ridiculous price for brewer's yeast. I guess there was so much since it's normally used for beer? I dunno!
You can get the effects of helping with milk supply if you use regular yeast, it just doesn't do AS well. But I've made them before without yeast and still seen benefits, I just have to eat more cookies. (Can't really say I have a problem with that...lol.)
This is *almost* the basic drop cookie recipe with the exception of eggs. Basic calls for 3 instead of 2 eggs. Some years back, I reduced the sugar as well as using Splenda and it works well, something like ¾ cup granulated and ½ cup brown. Accordingly, the amount of flour depends on the liquid/moisture content. I hardly ever measure very much of anything which comes from many years of cooking and baking. The flax seed and brewer's yeast would work in any oatmeal cookie recipe.
For the one allergic to oats, I even experimented with using baby food rice cereal and with the addition of raisins, they tasted a little like rice pudding, which is what I was aiming for. As long as you don't get too far off the basic formula, all kinds of variations will make a decent drop cookie.
My family's favorite cookie is from a recipe I got on tv over 50 years ago and takes 2 cans of fruit cocktail, coconut, half and half raisins and currants and chopped nuts, either walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts. Each of those are in about ½ cup increments. The fruit cocktail is drained and the juice used as part of the liquid. Use a teaspoon of cinnamon and ½ teaspoon of cloves. Sometimes I add nutmeg and/or allspice.
Variations of the basic drop recipe are:
chopped apples and butterscotch chips
crushed pineapple and chopped dried apricots
grated zucchini and the raisin/currant combo, sometimes with maple flavoring
a cup or more of shredded coconut plus coconut milk as the liquid
As for the original fruit cocktail version, my kids used to tell me they'd be good for breakfast since they contain fruit, eggs and oatmeal. I wouldn't agree with them then but am on my own now and can do as I please on that one. Just don't tell them.......
I took fenugreek and it just so happened that I was eating a lot of oatmeal raisin cookies and oatmeal cream pies, and then we moved and I didnt have access to those oatmeal snacks anymore after a while my milk supply had dwindled and I started researching things to help increase it and oatmeal was on the list, no wonder before the move my milk supply was great with a huge fridge and freezer stock as well.
Fenugreek is NOT suggeste during pregnancy though!!
Wow! What a wonderful post. I did not know that there are cookies that would help lactating moms. I would bake this up and make some for my wife. Since she still breastfeeds our little baby girl. Thanks for sharing this cookie recipe. This would really go well with a hot cup of coffee made from my new drip coffee maker. Kudos!
Where can I find brewer's yeast?
Wal-Mart? Winn-Dixie? Health Foods Store?
How many of these cookies do you have to eat to help increase your supply?
It is great i have so much hunger in me. I will eat all this if i could take it. :)
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Thanks for sharing this. I did not know that these cookies existed. I would really try to make these as my wife needs help with her lactation. Kudos to you!
Harry Brownerling
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I loved this recipe so much. I made these cookie 3 times a week for at least 6 months. By the end of making them I did change a few things: Instead of flour, whole wheat flour. Instead of chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips. Instead of 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of brown splenda. They tasted more like a meal, but still good. They also kept my milk supply up. Now that I found it again, it's time to print it off and get to baking.