Homemade Remedies for Breast Feeding Problems

Breast-feeding is the act of naturally feeding an infant with milk produced in the mother's breast. This has great deal of benefits for the baby not only breast milk is healthier but the action of feeding the child is a moment of love in which the baby learns to bond, smell, and caress with his or her mother as she gives nourishment and affection.

Without doubt breast milk is the best food for a newborn; nothing comes even closer to provide all the nutrients that the baby will need later in life. Breast milk is much easier to digest then any formula in the market, at the same time it provides protection against infections, prevents future food allergies, helps the growth of healthy teeth, and most important it improves brain development. Studies had shown that breast-fed babies are more intelligent than formula fed babies.

Low quality or quantity of milk

Low quality of milk can be cause by medications or a poor diet, many antibiotics contaminate the milk and a diet high in caffeine may cause colic and sleeping problems. For the baby it is very important that the mother keeps eating a well balance diet after giving birth, and preferably foods with no traces of pesticides these poisons become highly concentrated in the milk.
The use of a breast pump may inhibit the production of milk, lowering the amount available to the baby; this gives the false idea that the infant should be change to formula in order for him to be satisfied, when in fact the problem is the quantity of milk that the mother is producing.

Home remedies can help with both of these common problems.

* Eat alfalfa or take it in capsules, it stimulates lactation, improves quality and quantity of milk.

* Chaste tree Increases flow of milk, by affecting pituitary's prolactin secretion.

* Chinese use an herb called Codonopsis to increase lactation and strengthen the blood.

* Goat's rue this herb has been used by midwives for hundreds of years to improve breast milk production by as much as 50 percent.

* Vervain encourages milk secretion and flow; it also increases absorption of nutrients from food and helps with postpartum depression.