No Bake Lactation Cookies
Feeding for any mama is a journey, and it looks different for everyone. Lily took to breastfeeding very well from the beginning, and I did not really incorporate the bottle. I was very grateful for our successful breastfeeding journey when we moved across the country and started renovating our house because I did not necessarily have a clean place to be washing bottles and pump parts.
Needless to say, I have been exclusively breastfeeding for the past 9 months, and I can count on two hands how many times I have pumped expressed breastmilk. I returned to work one day last week, and I was very discouraged with my milk supply when I pumped for work. The added stress comes because we have offered formula in a bottle before, and she refuses it, but will drink my expressed breastmilk from a bottle. If it is not one thing, it is another with a feeding journey (am I right, mamas). My gut tells me that my body is just not used to the breast pump, and lily is more efficient with feedings because she has been gaining weight (continuing on her little 3% curve), and I can see her sucking and swallowing with all feeds. But I have to say it was pretty hard to SEE that tiny bit of milk expressed.
I decided to make some lactation cookies to eat because I am truly the worst at snacking, and at the very least it will help me get more calories in during the day.
I loosely used a recipe that a friend recommended from the baker mama, but I measured with my heart, and substituted a few items for what I had on hand.
Ingredients:
2 cups oats (I used steel cut oats)
1/2 cup milled flaxseeds
3 tbsp brewers yeast
1 cup peanut butter, softened in microwave
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup dark cocoa chips
Sprinkle with vanilla sea salt from am-niccoli salt.
What to do:
Scoop with small cookie scoop
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before putting into a sealed container.
Store in the refrigerator.
Easy peasy, no bake, and so yummy. The vanilla bean sea salt makes them, trust me. Buy the vanilla baking salt here.
