mummyho, I don't think that dang gui reduces milk supply. the CN I had dur my #1 time told me that too, but it's not proven. Tis time round, I found that the herbal tonic(contained dang gui) I took dur my confinement actually kinda helped. Dang Gui 'pu' blood and reading this extract from an article "Prompted by the hormone prolactin, the alveoli take proteins, sugars, and fat from your blood supply and make breast milk", u'd know what I mean...
Full article :
http://www.babycenter.com/0_making-breast-milk-how-your-body-produces-natures-perfect-ba_8785.bc
Recently, on Mother's Day, during our gathering at my mom's, I was asked to 'sponsor' durians(we chose pot luck dinner for that day) and my maid told me that actually durain help promotes milk supply. Since I love durian, I see no harm to give it a try and for the 1st time, my right breast which usually doesn't produce as much milk as my left, engorged sooo badly and even leaked before I even got home! That night, I expressed out more milk than usual as well.
Last night, I gave it another try and I also expressed more bm! Then later, I could even express enough bm for my bb's next feed after I bf her the 2nd time. [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]
Aiya, just went for my post natal check up this morning(hee, delayed til now) and I forgot to ask my gynae what food(besides latching the bb) we could take to help yield more bm. But I rem once, he told me that if I want to stop bf, I'd have to avoid taking protein food like fish, milk, chocolates, etc so I've also been taking alot of bf milk & chocolates, heee.
Maybe moms who wanna have more bm supply cld try eating durians, then tell me if it really is true,
