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Can you drink mothers milk tea and take fenugreek at the same time?
I had low milk supply with my two previouse children and am looking into remedys before my third is born. I only got 2 months of breastfeeding in with my children and id like to get more in iwth htis child...
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
yes you can :-) but key to these supplements is the intake of liquids.
drink plenty of water. i suggest that you drink a glass of water right before nursing. this is a conscious effort to replenish your liquids. remember that breastmilk is 100% water.
the chinese have it right with their yin and yang food groups for mothers who just gave birth. they recommend yang or hot food - meat, fish, rice, rootcrops, hot soup. the soup should be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. yang food means you're taking in high calorie and high protein food. they even have a special tea, which basically contains iron-rich herbs and roots - so the mother can replenish the blood loss during childbirth and also help in making milk.
have you discovered the cause of your low milk supply with the previous two kids? were your kids latched properly? did they feed often enough? did you schedule feedings or fed on demand? did you supplement immediately within the two months you breastfed? were you stressed?
supplementing - even having formula in the house - gives a signal to the brain that your body doesn't have to work hard in the milk making. when you don't have alternatives in the house, your body subconsciously knows that it needs to feed a baby, thus will work extra hard in making milk.
Source(s): breastfed two kids. one for 15 months. second one still bfeeding at 14months - Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes you can take both of these at the same time. Of course you can't use them until you have the baby but I'm sure you already know that.
I would try something like Breastea. It has helped my milk supply a lot. You drink it daily.
Source(s): http://www.breastea.com/ - ?Lv 45 years ago
you may take the two on the comparable time. you additionally can attempt including blessed thistle to the blend. initiate out with a million pill, thrice an afternoon of fenugreek, and a million pill, thrice an afternoon of blessed thistle and paintings your way as much as 3 pills, thrice an afternoon of the two.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You probably want to just _read up_ on how nursing is supposed to work.
You probably got all engorged at the start -- huge breasts, leaked all over the place? And then that stopped happening so much, and you fancied that that meant you had a supply problem...
That is _supposed_ to happen. One doesn't stay engorged and leaking for the duration of their nursing career. Eventually they feel like normal breasts. There is still plenty of milk in there, though.
Read http://www.drjacknewman.com/help/Is%20My%20Baby%20... paying particular attention to the "the following are not good ways of judging" section.
- 1 decade ago
I did both of those things and it did help some.