Name: Lactation Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 36 cookies
Ingredients: 2 tbsp ground flax seeds; 1/4 c water; 1 c softened butter; 1 c white sugar; 3/4 c brown sugar; 3 egg yolks; 2 tsp vanilla; 2 c flour; 1 tbsp cinnamon - OPTIONAL; 1/4 c brewer's yeast; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp cream of tartar; 1 tsp baking soda; 3 c old fashioned oats; Add ins: 1.5 c raisins, or 2 c chocolate chips, or 1.5 c chocolate chips and 1 c walnuts

At some point I’ll share our daughter’s birth story with you all, but if you follow on Instagram, you know Miss Harper Grace was born on 02/02/2020 (cool date, huh?!) and was 8 weeks early. 8 weeks early. Lil’ punk! ha!

Since then, it’s been a little bit of a whirlwind around here. The house was not ready, we had a lot of organizing to do, and going back and forth to the NICU just kind of stops everything else going on in your life (like organizing, tidying, laundry, and so on). But I’ll share all that soon!

Anyway, let’s chat about these lactation cookies! They’re so good – even hubby likes them – and I’ve noticed a difference in my milk production when I have a few in a day versus when I don’t.

If you don’t want to make your own lactation cookies, these are my favorite pre-packaged ones!

These lactation cookies have a few key ingredients that are supposed to help with milk production – oats, flax seeds, brewer’s yeast. (Obviously I’m not a doctor, so if you have questions I would chat with your doctor, lactation consultant, and always do your own research.)

I’ve made these 3 different ways: cinnamon raisin (house favorite), chocolate chip and chocolate chip walnut! There’s notes for making each variety in the recipe at the end of the post!