How to boost your breast milk supply

Breast milk is wonderful for a newborn and infant. The mother's breast milk contains the perfect concoction of necessary ingredients that help an infant's body grow and develop as it should. For many reasons a mother's milk supply can diminish; sickness, incorrect latching from the baby, medicine, insufficient nutrition, dehydration, excessive exercise, stress or just simple genetics.

Before giving up on breastfeeding there are several actions that can be taken to help boost breast milk.

Breastfeeding tips

• Breastfeeding is a demand and supply game, the more feeding that takes place the greater the chance of developing more milk.
• Make sure the infant finishes the feeding. Depending on the age of the baby, the baby will the finish the feeding by falling asleep, unlatching and looking satisfied or by stop sucking and swallowing.
• While breast milk supply is low attempt to nurse both breasts each feeding time.
• To increase milk supply further, follow each feeding by pumping each breast.

Tips to enhance the mother's health

·         Stay hydrated. Water and juices are wonderful to maintain a hydrated body. Hydration is essential to produce breast milk.

·         Eat more. While breastfeeding women should be consuming an extra 5oo calories, make sure those extra calories are from fruits, vegetable or whole grains.

·         Sleep or rest. The human body needs time to boost the immune system and rest is a perfect way to achieve that.

·         Avoid unneeded stress.

Natural supplementation to boost breast milk

• Fenugreek is a natural supplement that has been very successful in helping many women boosts their milk supply.
• Oatmeal is great for breakfast and increasing breast milk.
• Mother's milk tea is a herbal tea fortified with Fenugreek, Fennel, Blessed Thistle and Nettle that increases milk supply.

As with all natural remedies some work for some people and others don't. For many women it is not just one thing that works rather a combination of several things.