Receipes to help on Lactation

1) Fish and Papaya Soup
Ingredients – 200g green (unripe) papaya, Fish bones ( kurau, threadfin, pomfret or crap), slices of ginger

1. Scale and clean the fish
2. Put the ginger, fish bones and payaya and shimmer for 1-2 hours
   
3. Add pinch of salt to taste
4. Remove bones before serving

Tip: take this soup consecutively for at least 3 days to increase your breastmilk suply.Continue to take it in your confinement period.

2) Fennel/ Barley Water
Ingredients – half cup of pearled barley,  1 teaspoon Fennel Seeds

1. Prepare barley water by soaking half cup barley in 3 cups of water and boil for 25 minutes
2. Strain out the barley drink  and add into soup
3. Pour 1 cup of barley of boiling barley over 1 teaspoon fennel seeds and steep for no longer then 30 minutes.

Tip: This combination not only increases the breast milk but also ease the afterpains and settles the digestion of the mother and baby

3) Seaweed Soup
Ingredients – Seaweed ( get from korean shop), Sesame Oil, Organic stewed beef / clam (you may omit for vegetarian), 4-5 cloves of garlic, beef dashida ( or beef / clam stock), Sea salt, 4-5 cups of water

1. Take a handful of seaweed and soak in cold water for about 15 mins. The seaweed will expand and soften.
   
2. Drain and cut the seaweed into smaller pieces
3. Pour a bit of sesame oil into the cooking pan. Heat the pan to medium and add garlic and seaweed and stir
4. Add water and beef
   
5. Bring all together until boil
   
6. Season with salt and 1 teaspoon of dashida

Tip: korean swear to this must-have recipe for increasing of milk supply. Consume twice a day to help increase milk supply.