Does Anyone Have Experience with Lactation Cookies?

digwriter

My milk supply with DD1 was a bit lackluster, so I'm hoping to get a jump start on some fortification this time around. I had read about the lactation cookies last time, but at the time hadn't been able to find the brewers yeast that they all seem to call for. This time around I've located it at my local Bulk Barn (Canadian bulk store chain), so I'm planning to make some this weekend. Just wondering if anyone else has used them and if they were actually effective?

michelle142

I used them last time and they worked well.

However, even though you had supply issues last time, that doesn't mean you will this time. I would wait and see if you can establish supply on your own first - lest you end up with oversupply, which is not as wonderful as it sounds.

They don't stay good (as in, fresh) very long either. So I wouldn't make them so far in advance.

digwriter

I'm hoping that I won't have the same issues. I have been much leakier this pregnancy, so it gives me a bit of hope. Can your recommend a particular recipe @michelle142?

michelle142

Not the healthiest recipe out there, but they taste good and they worked for me (I made these around 6 months when my pumping supply took a nose dive)

https://www.food.com/recipe/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-lactation-cookies-by-noel-trujillo-192346

Mrs. Zee

One of my GF's eats them and they have worked for her but her LO is 6 months old. There is a group called Dairy Queens on fb and they are super helpful with natural supply boosters should one need it. There are some items that don't require baking you could have on hand just in case like Gatorade, oatmeal, fenugreek and the brewers yeast-you can put that in whatever you are eating and not have to make cookies.

michelle142

Mrs. Zee said:

One of my GF's eats them and they have worked for her but her LO is 6 months old. There is a group called Dairy Queens on fb and they are super helpful with natural supply boosters should one need it. There are some items that don't require baking you could have on hand just in case like Gatorade, oatmeal, fenugreek and the brewers yeast-you can put that in whatever you are eating and not have to make cookies.

Fenugreek  works great as well. You have to take a TON of pills to get the full effect though - I took 6 pills a day. And they make you smell like maple syrup 24/7, not sure if that's good or bad.. lol

digwriter

michelle142 said:

Mrs. Zee said:

One of my GF's eats them and they have worked for her but her LO is 6 months old. There is a group called Dairy Queens on fb and they are super helpful with natural supply boosters should one need it. There are some items that don't require baking you could have on hand just in case like Gatorade, oatmeal, fenugreek and the brewers yeast-you can put that in whatever you are eating and not have to make cookies.

Fenugreek  works great as well. You have to take a TON of pills to get the full effect though - I took 6 pills a day. And they make you smell like maple syrup 24/7, not sure if that's good or bad.. lol

Well, I am in Canada, so smelling like maple syrup is kind of contextual. LOL

michelle142

digwriter said:

michelle142 said:

Mrs. Zee said:

One of my GF's eats them and they have worked for her but her LO is 6 months old. There is a group called Dairy Queens on fb and they are super helpful with natural supply boosters should one need it. There are some items that don't require baking you could have on hand just in case like Gatorade, oatmeal, fenugreek and the brewers yeast-you can put that in whatever you are eating and not have to make cookies.

Fenugreek  works great as well. You have to take a TON of pills to get the full effect though - I took 6 pills a day. And they make you smell like maple syrup 24/7, not sure if that's good or bad.. lol

Well, I am in Canada, so smelling like maple syrup is kind of contextual. LOL

It's more like sweaty maple syrup.. so it's just a little gross!

CogDis

I love cookies! I think I'm going to just call all my homemade cookies "lactation cookies" from now on. Maybe that will deter DH from eating as many and will allow me to hoard them all to myself! Muhahahhaha

Nvywife

Last time I just used regular oatmeal raisin cookies. DH has already prepped some dough into balls and froze them. This way I have them on hand, when needed.

loriann091

digwriter said:

I'm hoping that I won't have the same issues. I have been much leakier this pregnancy, so it gives me a bit of hope. Can your recommend a particular recipe @michelle142?

I hate to hijack your post with a question, so my apologies, but does your level of "leakiness" indicate how your supply will be? I'm a FTM and want to BF and have no idea about anything.

michelle142

loriann091 said:

I'm hoping that I won't have the same issues. I have been much leakier this pregnancy, so it gives me a bit of hope. Can your recommend a particular recipe @michelle142?

I hate to hijack your post with a question, so my apologies, but does your level of "leakiness" indicate how your supply will be? I'm a FTM and want to BF and have no idea about anything.

Nope.

You can leak like crazy and have average or low supply (or be fine). OR you can not leak at all and be good to go. Leaking give no indication as to what your supply will be.

mamabisme

I have never made the cookies but I drank a ton of mother's milk tea in the beginning with DD2. I can't say for sure that it contributed to my success but I never had any supply issues. It was taking longer than I expected for my milk to come in so I had DH pick up a few boxes of it at our regular grocery store while I was still in the hospital. It is caffeine free so I drank the maximum amount per day suggested on the back of the box for the first couple weeks, then less for a couple weeks after that. My milk came in on day 3 (which is totally normal but at the time felt like an eternity) and I ended up having a great supply. This time around, I plan to pick up a box before I deliver just so I have it at home if I feel like I need it but I probably won't go as crazy with it. I know my milk will come in regardless but it's at least comforting for me to feel like I'm doing something while I'm waiting.

digwriter

loriann091 said:

I'm hoping that I won't have the same issues. I have been much leakier this pregnancy, so it gives me a bit of hope. Can your recommend a particular recipe @michelle142?

I hate to hijack your post with a question, so my apologies, but does your level of "leakiness" indicate how your supply will be? I'm a FTM and want to BF and have no idea about anything.

No idea. It's just hopeful thinking on my part. 

Sahara6971

CogDis said:

I love cookies! I think I'm going to just call all my homemade cookies "lactation cookies" from now on. Maybe that will deter DH from eating as many and will allow me to hoard them all to myself! Muhahahhaha

That didn't work in my case. My husband asked me the other day when I will be making lactation cookies. He loved them last time.

digwriter More Milk Plus helped me w/ DS#2. I had to supplement formula w/ DS#1 but didn't with #2. I wasn't mass producing or anything, but it did help significantly.

tee18

Is the main thing that helps in the cookies the oats? With ds I ate oatmeal most mornings (not instant). Sometimes I would get the oatmeal from starbucks.

ConstanceGoodspeed

Oatmeal helped me. I ate it for breakfast, used oatmeal bread for lunch, and made oatmeal cookies for treats.

I did not have supply issues, but I had extra breastmilk on days I ate oatmeal.

SorkinLover

I eat them all the time. Nuke them a bit. That's a trick @chicagojackie taught me.