Hello Moms… A very exciting moment for every new mom is feeding her new born baby. Feeding your breast milk to the baby will protect them from many diseases and disorders in future. What we all hope is their good health. Breastfeeding is the time that actually creates an affection between a baby and a mother. Feeding your baby is not only healthy for your baby. It is also beneficial for you to regain your figure. Additionally, it helps to tighten the uterine muscle. Due to varied health conditions, a mother does not produce enough milk. This milk is necessary for the baby’s growth. At those times, we need to depend on formula milk. It is not as healthy as MOM’s milk. Moreover, cleaning and maintaining perfect hygiene for the formula milk bottles is a tedious task every day. So here are the best foods to eat for Breast Milk.

Luckily, we have many natural foods available to improve the milk production in mother and keep the baby’s tummy full. You need to feed them at least for 6 months for proper brain development. So, add these foods to your menu for your baby’s health.

Here are the top 10 best foods to improve the breast milk in new Moms:

1. Raw Papaya – One of the Top 10 Foods to Boost Breast Milk Production:

Ripen Papaya is a rich source of many vitamins and always a healthy fruit for good digestion. Good thing is Raw papaya is also a pack of nitration. Eating raw papaya either with sugar or by cooking it with little oil and spices will add taste too. This will increase the milk production happily and eating papaya will improve the digestion in mother and baby too.

2. Garlic – Best Foods for Nursing Moms to Increase Milk Supply Naturally:

This is a very good food to improve the breast milk. Many doctors suggests this before and after delivery. This can be consumed as boiled garlic along with rice or raw garlic. Eating raw garlic with Ajwan (Vaamu) early in the morning will help reduce the body water content. Do not take water for half an hour afterward. Doing this daily for 1 week right after delivery will remove the water content much faster. It is more effective than any exercise and any medicine.

3. Coccinia or Indian Ivy Gourd to Increase Breast Milk:

Many of us doesn’t know this vegetable. But this is an excellent vegetable to eat to get the breast milk. One can eat this either as raw food or by cooking it with different vegetables. This is a rich source of water content and healthy for new moms.

4. Bread to Enhance Your Breast Milk:

Eating bread dipped in milk is an excellent way to increase breast milk production. It also provides good fiber content to the body and helps in good digestion for mothers.

5. Juvenile Fishes or Fingerlings (Small fishes) – Essential Food for New Moms to Enhance Breastfeeding:

Many of us love to eat seafood so much. But how many of us know that eating baby fishes or juvenile fishes will increase the breast milk production. But that’s true. Eating them cooked will increase the Brest milk production a lot.

6. Milk:

Drinking 250 ml of cow or buffalo milk twice a day will significantly increase breast milk. Drink one in the morning and one in the evening. Milk is a rich source of protein and calcium. This will help the new moms to increase their bone calcium after the delivery.

7. Egg:

We all know eggs are a rich source of Protein. Protein is very much required for milk production. Eating a boiled egg once a day will improve breast milk by increasing the protein content.

8. Bombay Halwa (An Indian sweet recipe made with wheat flour or cake flour):

Not sure if it is a Myth or a truth. Many new moms and the old grandparents suggested taking this Indian delicacy. It helps with natural breast milk production post pregnancy. Eating this sweet made with ghee is very yummy too.

9. Spinach:

Spinach is the king of all leafy vegetables for rich source of food Iron, fiber and many nutrients. This wonder food is very good for breast milk production.

10. Sprouts:

Eating sprout salads or any dish with sprouts is a healthy snack for new moms. It is also one of the best foods for breast milk production.

(Please share it with as many mothers as possible to create the awareness how much important breastfeeding is..And to help them to get the breast milk. As a mother you must be knowing how difficult it is if you can’t produce the milk properly.

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