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what worked best to increase supply?

Amymarie13Amymarie13 member
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I've never had to use anything, but after a stressful visit to the in-laws, and then a cold, my supply is pretty bad and I've been supplementing more than I care to. What product worked the best for you to increase supply? thanks!
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Re: what worked best to increase supply?

  • MBandBudMBandBud member
    I agree with pp that different things work for different people.  Stress def affects my supply as well as sickness...so for me it is not what works best to increase but what works to not decrease.  GL to you!
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  • AmyA210AmyA210 member
    More Milk Plus, drinking more water, oatmeal and granola bars w/oats
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  • MouseygailMouseygail member
    i'm struggling big time right now, but i'd start with the things that are least objectionable to you...like maybe having oatmeal for breakfast every day.  I'm taking fenugreek right now and its a struggle to make myself swallow all of those pills (not sure why, but i really have a tough time with these guys!).  It helps me some and its not horribly expensive.  I haven't tried adding blessed thistle to the mix yet.  Power pumping also gave me a quick supply boost! 
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  • kimthgrtkimthgrt
    steel oats works really well. reg. oatmeal gave my DD the toots and Ive read a few places that say the steel oats actually work better than reg. oatmeal.
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  • noxie52noxie52
    When my supply was low.  I treated myself as sick and did nothing but laid around on the weekends and relaxed.  In essence, I went on a nursing vacation and my supply increasesd.
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  • alumsden1alumsden1 member
    I made lactation cookies with oats, nutritional yeast, and flax meal amongst other things. There are a lot of recipes out there, but make sure it has those ingredients. Also, a Guiness in the evening really did wonders! 
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  • pilotswife2008pilotswife2008
    More Milk Plus. I drank it and the nxt day it was like my milk had come in all over again. lol. It doesn't taste to bad either.
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    More Milk Plus. I drank it and the nxt day it was like my milk had come in all over again. lol. It doesn't taste to bad either.

    Is Milk Plus a tea or a milk-type supplement?  Sounds like something I could get at Whole Foods perhaps?

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  • AmyA210AmyA210 member
    imagealswitch:

    imagepilotswife2008:
    More Milk Plus. I drank it and the nxt day it was like my milk had come in all over again. lol. It doesn't taste to bad either.

    Is Milk Plus a tea or a milk-type supplement?  Sounds like something I could get at Whole Foods perhaps?

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    More Milk Plus is a liquid capsule that has fenugreek, blessed thistle, and a couple of other things. I found it at Whole Foods.

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