Lactation Biscuits

Firstly, congratulations on the arrival of your precious little one. Breastfeeding can be challenging at the start (or throughout), remember if you are concerned about your breast milk supply, you should speak to a medical professional. If you have any issues at all – please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (free) or get a lactation consultant (worth the money).

Galactagogues are found in brewer’s yeast, as well as flaxseed and oats. Galactagogues are foods, herbs or medications that may help to increase breastmilk supply. These biscuits are suitable for pregnant women, breastfeeding women… actually, they are suitable for most people! You can ask your friends to bake them and bring them over. Something to add to your meal train request (meal train- organise one- it takes a village). The biscuits may not work for everyone, but definitely worth a tasty try. Of course, a well balanced, nourishing diet is always suggested, especially for new mums, and these biscuits are still biscuits.

In our fourth trimester, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine may help with many symptoms and changes to our bodies. If you have any of the following concerns, please get in touch: low energy, constipation, night sweats, anxiety, depression, pain, headaches and so on. Phone consultations are especially handy during the fourth trimester. And remember to come in for your 6 weeks post partum treatment and bring your bubs. Jane will look after bubs while you have your acunap (Acunap = the nap that you take during your acupuncture treatment, when you are neither fully awake or fully asleep, yet when you are finished you feel fully refreshed).

Lactation Biscuits Recipe

Prep time: 15 minutes (1 hour and 45 minutes if you are trying to do this with a baby)

Cook time: 12 minutes

Oven temp: Preheat to 170C

Makes: 15(ish) biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 cup self raising wholemeal flour (if you only have plain flour, just add 1/2 teaspoon baking powder)
• 110g butter or organic virgin coconut oil
• 3/4 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar
• 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons of water
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons of brewers yeast (must be brewers yeast – non negotiable)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 & 1/2 cups oats – organic, steel cut oats or rolled oats

Lactation Biscuits Method

1. Cream the butter and sugar.
2. Add the egg and vanilla. Mix well.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flaxseed and water, let them sit for a few minutes before adding to mix.
4. Add the dry ingredients (apart from the oats and your optional biscuit ingredients) and mix well again.
5. Stir in the oats and your additional ingredients.
6. Using a dessert spoon, scoop the mixture into your hand and roll it into a ball.
7. Place the biscuits onto a lightly greased baking tray.
8. Flatten them a little
9. Bake for around 10-12 minutes (depending on how well cooked or crunchy you like your biscuits).

*Do not eat uncooked dough if you are pregnant – raw egg! But do eat if you are breastfeeding, it seems to be even more effective at increasing supply.

**When making these lactation biscuits, please try to source organic, local ingredients wherever possible. Please contact us, as Acupuncture Fitzroy now stocks brewers yeast and organic oats and will post to you.

***Trying to be “healthy”, however, lactation biscuits need to be sweet enough to hide the very bitter taste of some of the ingredients.

****For the low carbers, you’ll have to play with coconut flour and you might need to add an extra egg.

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