Lactation Mothers Breast Milk Baby Infant Lactogenic Food Items How to Stimulates Milk Production

LACTATION

Mother’s milk is the best diet for infants. Infants should be fed milk in a cheerful mood. If they are fed in an angry mood, it causes stomach – ache and spasms. Mother’s milk should not be fed to infants for the first three days after birth. If the mother’s milk is not sufficient and the infant is not fully fed, the following lactogenic food items will be helpful:

 Grapes : Grapes are lactogenic. They stimulate milk production Mothers with insufficient milk should eat grapes.

Papaya : Raw papaya eaten as a cooked vegetable increases lactation. Ripe papaya is also lactogenic.

Carrots : Lactating mothers should take carrot – juice to stimulate milk production.

Onion : Raw onion eaten in sufficient quantity with meals stimulate better milk production.

Peas : Peas are also lactogenic.

Black gram : Eating black gram daal with clarified butter stimulates milk production.

Gram : Soak overnight 62 gms. of kabuli gram in milk. Strain the milk next morning. Eat the gram by chewing them thoroughly followed by hot milk in which the gram had been soaked. It is lactogenic.

Castor oil : Massaging the breasts with castor oil for a month or two stimulates better milk production.