Breast Milk

Take 25 gms. each of the seeds of Sabbasigae and Menthe (Methi) and boil them in water, strain, add milk and sugar and let the nursing mother drink it once daily for 3-7 days. This will increase and purify mother’s milk. Breast  milk  will  increase  if  the  nursing mother frequently eats cowpea beans (Alasande) as vegetable dish during meals.

A gruel prepared from the roasted methi seeds, milk and sugar is given to increase breast milk. The ideal method of feeding babies is to breast-feed ‘ the nev.’born babyYou-can put the baby on the breast about 12 hours after deliveryThis time is usually sufficient for both the baby and the mother to recover from the exhaustion of labour and deliveryThis should be done in a sitting down position with the baby in your lapYou can put the baby to breast three to four times in the first 24 hours and then three to four hourly in the next 24 hours. After this it is generally a good idea to have the baby on a self-demand schedule of feeding—which means, feed the baby when it cries from hungerInitially it may be troublesome because the baby may demand 10 to  feeds a day, but usually by the age of four to six weeks, babies set their own, schedule of three to four hourly feeding.

Breast feeding helps the womb to shrink back to its normal size more quickly.