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My daughter is totally offended by my exposed breasts that seem to be out all the time...LOL I try to confine myself to the bedroom when I'm breast feeding because Ethan does not like to have anything covering his head so I have not been able to use my udder cover. I find that I am totally committed to this breast feeding thing no matter how frustrating it is at times. I take great pride in knowing that I am supplying our baby with all the nutrients he needs. With my first child I tried it for a few weeks only coupled with formula. I would say she got 80% formula and 20% breast milk. I just did not enjoy the process, it was painful and I felt like she was not getting enough. With E all but one feeding is breast milk and that's because by 10am I am too exhausted to do anything so Daddy gives him a few ounces of formula so I can get a bit of rest. As soon as I am able to supply more than what he consumes then I will be able to give him 100% mommy milk. During his one month appointment the doctor said he should be drinking 30oz of milk a day so now I'm on the hunt to find out what I can do to increase my milk supply. I drink at least 64oz of water a day, I try and drink 2-4 cups of lactation tea and now my latest experiment is lactation cookies. Currently it takes me approximately 40 minutes to pump 4-6oz of milk, I would love to boost that up to 8-10oz so hopefully these cookies work.

The recipe is courtesy of drmomma.org and I chose the Major Milk Makin' Cookies created by Kathleen Major, PNP, RN. I substituted the chocolate chips for carob chips because I don't eat chocolate.

The cookies taste pretty good, they are moist and not too sweet. I can definitely snack on these daily with a cup of tea.


Ingredients all mixed up









Carob Chips - WONDERFUL chocolate substitute









First batch done, second batch ready for the oven









Close up of cooked batch









I used half the mix and made 24 cookies, so in total this recipe should yield 48 cookies depending on your portion size.