When To Drink Milk's Up Breastfeeding Tea

Our Milk’s Up breastfeeding tea can be drunk at any stage of motherhood, but there’s a sweet spot that we’d recommend…and that links to your hospital bag!

Our Milk’s Up breastfeeding tea, is designed to keep your body hydrated and well nourished.  It’s ingredients are natural galactagogues, which have been used for millennia to support milk supply.  Small scale research shows that several of the key ingredients we use, do indeed increase milk supply and fat content of milk - fenugreek and fennel in particular.

Fenugreek is a powerful herb, and has been used to support digestion and inflammation historically. It shouldn't be drunk in large quantities when pregnant, as it is shown to increase estrogen levels.  Useful if you're in perimenopause, but not when pregnant!  As a result, we don't recommend having it before your baby arrives.

However, pop some in your hospital bag - we make conveniently individually wrapped bags that make this super easy.

Drinking up to 3 cups a day, along with feeding on demand and expressing milk, can hopefully help support your body when your baby arrives. 

Everyone’s bodies are different, and you may take a week or so to see results, it’s great to plan ahead and start when pregnant if you can. 

We recommend talking to your midwife about when to start hand expressing milk, as some advise to wait until you’re full term, just in case the production of oxytocin induces labour.  This is the key thing for increasing milk supply, and the tea is a great support.

For more information, my expert midwife have put together an article exploring colostrum harvesting, looking at how much to harvest and how to collect and store them - https://myexpertmidwife.com/pages/colostrum-harvesting.