High Protein, High Fiber Oat Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies

When you are a nursing mom and your baby starts to wiggle and grow, sleep through the night and seems to want/need more breast milk…..this delicious cookie may just do the trick.They are easy to make and can be stored in the freezer for a quick nutritious treat. Remember to use Brewer’s yeast and NOT nutritional yeast.  This delicious lactation cookie recipe is similar to the other one we tried but uses whole wheat flour for more fiber and has extra protein with the addition of more peanut butter to the dough. You can add an extra bit of fiber by adding raisins. Watch out because your husband and other family members will be sneaking these when you are not looking -they are that delicious. For more information on herbs and nutritional supplements that can improve your milk supply if you are a nursing mama click here. Here are two other recipes that we have tried-one a bar and one a cookie and we also added brewer’s yeast to our favorite bran muffin recipe.

Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 Tablespoons water
2 Tablespoons of flax seed meal
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups of whole oats (not instant or quick oats)
1 ½ cups chocolate chip
½-1 cup raisins optional
4 Tablespoons Brewer’s Yeast (NOT nutritional yeast)
½ cup peanut butter (we used Trader Joe’s natural)

Stir the flax seed meal and water together in a small bowl. Blend butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and add vanilla and blend until fluffy. Measure flour, baking soda and salt into a small bowl and pour into mixer. Blend on medium speed until mixed thoroughly. Add oats and flax seed dissolved in water, peanut butter and brewer’s yeast and mix until all is combined. Stir in chocolate chips and raisins. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place spoonfuls of dough onto cookie sheets at least one inch apart. Bake 12-15 minutes until edges are done. Center of cookie may seem a bit moist but you do not want to overcook the cookies.
Here is a new product (new to us) that is a NON-bitter form of Brewer’s Yeast. We are excited to try this in our Lactation cookie recipe above and in many other recipes that we plan to try from this new cookbook.

Nursing moms-what other things have you done to increase your milk supply?