Mother’s Milk Tea

This is what I’ve been drinking lately. It’s a wonderful little tea that helps breastfeeding mothers produce more milk, and I think it works just as well to help you relax (which, helps produce more milk).

I was first introduced to this drink while in attendance at a weekly breastfeeding mother’s tea offered by the breastfeeding education center at our local hospital. It’s here where mothers of newborns (under 8 weeks of age) would meet up, drink “Mother’s Milk tea,” and talk about boobs, diapers and our continual lack of sleep. “Time for tea” quickly became a necessity in the week.

Drinking the tea now reminds me of the early days of learning to feed my newborn, to care for her and to care for myself. The tea offers calming effects far greater than just offering more milk.

I can’t say this stuff really works to increase your milk supply, but I can attest that one day I feared my milk was done.

Gone.

Over.

It was too early for this to happen so I ran to the nearest Whole Foods and bought some of this tea and quickly made a cup. By the next time I needed to produce milk, I had some. I breathed a sigh of relief and began drinking at least one cup of this a day. They say that you need to drink it four times a day for it to really work, but I think it’s worth it no matter how much you drink. The calming effects alone are helpful to breastfeeding moms. Who couldn’t use a calming cup of tea?

You can buy it in many stores, but if you have trouble look in your “natural” stores in the herbal section.

And, bonus, each bag offers an inspirational saying on the tag.

I’ll miss this tea when I’m no longer breastfeeding, but I might try one of the options from the tea maker’s line of “Woman’s Tea.”

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