Organic Mother’s Milk Tea
Traditional Medicinals organic tea to promote healthy lactation and is traditionally used to increase breast milk production. This traditional combination of anise, fennel and caraway has been in continuous use for centuries by European women. Organic Mother’s Milk is recommended by lactation counselors and medical herbalists. How does it taste? A pleasantly aromatic balance of sweet, spicy and slightly bitter. Contraindications: Do not use if you have known allergies to aniseed, anethole or fennel or to plants of the Asteraceae (daisy) family such as blessed thistle, calendula, chamomile, echinicea, safflower or yarrow. Unless prescribed otherwise, drink one cup of freshly prepared tea 3 to 5 times daily. For maximum benefit, medicinal tea must be properly prepared. Pour 8 oz. freshly boiled water over a tea bag in a ceramic cup. Cover cup and steep 10 minutes. These steps directly influence the amount of beneficial components that will end up in your teacup! Gently squeeze the tea bag to release any remaining extract. Sweeten with honey if desired.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Pregnancy or lactation: this product is intended to be used by lactating women, but should not be used during pregnancy unless with the recommendation of a practitioner trained in medical herbalism.
Ingredients
Calories: 0, Calcium: 5mg, Manganese: .02mg, Potassium: 25mg, ESSENTIAL OIL: 0, ALL HERBAL INGREDIENTS:: 0, ORGANIC BITTER FENNEL SEED: 560mg, ORGANIC ANISEED: 350mg, ORGANIC CORIANDER SEED: 210mg, ORGANIC FENUGREEK SEED: 35mg, Proprietary Blend: 595mg, SPEARMINT LEAF: 0, ORGANIC LEMONGRASS LEAF: 0, ORGANIC LEMON VERBENA LEAF: 0, ORGANIC MARSHMALLOW ROOT: 0, ORGANIC BLESSED THISTLE HERB: 0
Directions
For maximum benefit, medicinal tea must be properly prepared. Pour 8 oz. freshly boiled water over a tea bag in a ceramic cup. Cover cup and steep 10-15 minutes. Water temperature, covering your cup and steeping time greatly influence the yield of beneficial components that end up in your teacup! Gently squeeze the tea bag to release the remaining extractive. Drink 3 or more cups daily as needed.
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During my pregnancy, I read that raspberry leaf tea can help strengthen the uterus for labor. I started drinking this tea 3 times a day on my 39th week. Before I went into the hospital for a cervadil and induction, I used 2 tea bags and infused it for 30 minutes. I brought some tea bags with me to drink during my stay at the hospital. This is my 2nd pregnancy and this time was more positive and less tramatic for me. I only had to push my son out 3 times before he came out on his own. The contractions were strong enough to push him out without any help from me. I certainly believe this tea helped my labor to be shorter and easier for me. I felt better and stronger for the last 2 weeks of my pregnancy than the whole 9 months. I also like the smell and taste of this tea. I continued to drink this tea for my recovery from giving birth. This tea has become my favorite drink now. I definitely recommend drinking this tea during the last few weeks (starting 34 weeks) of pregnancy.
This is my second child, and I didn’t produce well for the first one, so I’d pretty much resigned myself to minimal milk production and the theory that anything was better than nothing. I was pumping at work three times a day and taking home about 9 ounces of milk total (and at that, it’s more than I’d managed with the first child) when I caught a cold, and my production started to dwindle again, even though I wasn’t taking any drugs. Frustrated but unwilling to wean my baby at only 2 months old, I started taking this tea in the hope that it would at least sustain my current level of production. Because it’s a little on the expensive side (I was buying it locally at the full retail price) I only drank 3 cups a day. (It recommends 3-5.) A week later, with my cold only just starting to clear up, I was taking home almost 12 ounces of milk. Another week and a half later, I’m catching another cold (the downside of having 2 kids in daycare…) but I’m taking home a solid 14-15 ounces of milk every day. This tea is the ONLY THING I have done differently — no other supplements or dietary changes, no changes in feeding or pumping schedules — so I know for sure it’s the tea that’s doing it! I don’t know where its effectiveness will level out, or if my production will continue to stay elevated if I stop drinking the tea, but at this point, I’m just thrilled with the short term results!