How to increase breast milk

Increasing breast milk supply is one of the most common problem of almost every first time moms. Breast milk supply will increase gradually depending on the needs of your baby.

Breast milk supply does not depend on how big or small your breasts are. It depends on how your baby feed and sip milk from your breasts.

As long as your baby sips milk even more than 2 years, your mammary glands will still constantly produce milk.

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You can stimulate breast milk by constantly letting your baby sip breast milk on regular basis up to 2 years. You should not miss consecutive days of feeding your baby.

I am breastfeeding my baby up to now, she is 1 year and 7 months old. I only breastfeed her during the night. Before we go to bed at 9pm, I will give her a bottled milk and I will let her sip on my breast after that until we fell asleep. From sleeping time 'til morning, I breastfeed her. We sleep next to each other so when she cry I can automatically offer my breast and we can continue our sleep. Sometimes, I do not hear her cry, I just woke up because she was sipping milk.

I stimulate my breast milk supply by letting my baby sip milk during the night especially sleeping time. During my working hours from 8 am to 5 pm, my baby will drink milk from the bottle. I don't use pump or anything to stimulate my breast milk supply.

Before I always thought that maybe I will not be able to increase my breast milk supply because I was busy at work and almost half of the day I am away from my baby. But I am surprise that until now, I still have breast milk. The supply automatically increase as my baby grow.

1. Avoid doing stressful job - Your body need adequate strength to produce milk. Do only light work job.
2. Take some rest - If you are working, take a nap during lunch or break time.
3. Do not let a day to pass without breastfeeding your baby so you can maintain the supply of milk.
4. Eat healthy foods. Green leafy vegetable is one of the best food you should have. Soup and high supply of liquid is also necessary to produce milk. Drink lots of water and high fiber food to avoid constipation during breast feeding.
5. Only HIV/AIDS Positive are not allowed to breastfeed their babies, but a sickness like common colds and diarrhea will not be a hassle for breastfeeding. In fact, when the mother is sick, she produces and transfers an immunity through breastfeeding to the baby. If you can feed your baby, don't miss a day or 2 to maintain the supply of your breast milk.

All healthy foods are needed to increase breast milk supply and make your body healthy. But, green leafy vegetables with soup are the best food to have. Your body need lots, lots of water to produce milk. I think that is one of the reason why until now I still have breast milk. I drink around 10 glasses of water a day. I make it a habit because I do not want to suffer from constipation.

I have a Moringa plant on our backyard and I just cooked it with one glass of water. Add some chicken, fish or meat and salt to taste. It has complete vitamins that's why its called miracle tree. It is high in calcium, iron, potassium magnesium and fiber which are all necessary to stimulate the supply of breast milk.

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