Easy No Bake Lactation Cookies for Nursing Moms

Looking for an easy way to boost your milk supply? Try these simple lactation cookies! Made with brewers yeast and other natural ingredients, they’re a great way to help you breastfeed longer and with better quality breast milk. Plus, they’re delicious – so you’ll love snacking on them!

If you have ever breastfed your baby, you will know that at times it can seem impossible to produce nearly enough milk. Even those blessed with an abundance of breastmilk can sometimes feel like they’ve been sucked dry – especially during a growth spurt!

Luckily, there is a ton of science showing that there are many supplements you can take to boost production. Plus, there are a lot of foods that you can add to your diet to try and get your body to produce more.  These easy no bake lactation cookies are full of those ingredients that will help you to keep your mammaries happy!

Don’t forget to check out my Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies!

Gather together your ingredients.

The main bulk of these cookies is from oatmeal, which is known to be great for milk supply, and it’s also great for boosting energy! Milk has tons of calcium and EFA, and it also helps boost milk production. Nuts, flaxseed and brewer’s yeast are also agents for helping increase your supply!

To get started, combine your oats, chopped walnuts, flaxseed and brewer’s yeast in a mixing bowl. Set it aside.

Then, in a medium pot, heat up your milk, sugar, butter and cocoa until it comes to a rolling boil. Boil for about a minute and then add in your peanut butter and vanilla, mixing well. Dump all your wet ingredients into the dry and combine with a spoon.

Prepare a large cookie sheet with some wax paper and then spoon out your mixture in 1 TBSP portions onto the tray.

Refrigerate these morsels so they can firm up a bit, and then pop one in your mouth whenever you need a little pick-me-up!

Seriously, they couldn’t be easier, and they taste awesome. Try them yourself!

Do They Work?

So you’re probably wondering if they actually work. The answer is a resounding YES! I started making these because I got pregnant with my fourth son after I’d had a breast reduction, thinking I was done after our third! I didn’t think I’d be able to breastfeed at all, but miraculously, my body provided.

However, I started to worry around the six month mark. My son’s appetite was HUGE, and I wasn’t sure if my body could keep up, so I researched to figure out what I could do to up my milk supply. I discovered several brewers yeast lactation recipes that seemed promising, and I began to experiment. I eventually came up with a homemade lactation cookies recipe that I baked weekly. It worked well enough, but I wanted something even easier.

Finally, I came up with this easy no-bake lactation cookie recipe that not only boosted my milk supply (seriously – I could definitely feel the difference!), but it boosted my energy, as well!

My husband and kids even enjoyed them and used them as little energy boosting snacks. And since they were so easy to make, I could whip up a batch as often as needed.

In the end, I ended up breastfeeding my son for 3 and a half years!

How Do They Work?

These no-bake lactation cookies work by using special ingredients called galactagogues. Galactagogues are substances that promote lactation. They can be man-made medications, but there are several that occur naturally.

The galactagogues in my no bake lactation cookie recipe are flax seeds, rolled oats, brewer’s yeast, peanut butter and walnuts. By combining several of these ingredients together, you can multiply their power to really help promote lactation in a breastfeeding mom.

What If I Don’t Like or Can’t Eat an Ingredient?

Definitely leave it out! These lactation cookies are very forgiving. While I think this recipe is just perfect as it is, you can definitely change it to fit your needs. In fact, check the comments here and on Pinterest to see some of the ways others have changed it up to fit their own circumstances, as this recipe has been modified in some really awesome ways.

For another great recipe, check out my Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies!