Earth Mama Angel Baby Milkmaid Tea Review

I recently received some Earth Mama Angel Baby Milkmaid Tea for review.* 

Milkmaid Tea contains herbal galactagogues like fennel, fenugreek, anis seed, and caraway seed.


I haven't had trouble with milk supply (except during pregnancy, and Milkmaid Tea is not intended for use during pregnancy), but tandem nursing means I am producing a lot of milk (moo!) and so sometimes it is nice to give my milk production a little herbal support.  If you're struggling with milk production, start with this page from Kellymom on how milk production works, and then check out this page with things you can do for your supply.

 The day that my tea arrived, it was pretty warm, and the idea of a hot cup of tea was just not my cup of tea.  ;)  But on the back of the box it suggested that it was good iced or hot, so I made some iced tea with it.  It was great!  It has a nice, mild herbal flavor.  Compared to the Traditional Medicinals Organic Mother's Milk Herbal Tea  I felt that the Milkmaid Tea had a milder flavor.  I think Mother's Milk tea has a  stronger, more licorice like flavor.  I like licorice, so I don't mind it, but I know some people don't like licorice...

The next morning it was cooler and I had a hot cup of Milkmaid Tea instead.  It was tasty, but I felt that it was a bit weak tasting, which surprised me since I had used one tea bag in a standard sized mug and made sure to steep it for 10 minutes (the box suggests 5-10).  However, I didn't squeeze the tea bag at all, like I always do with the Mother's Milk Tea (it says to in the instructions for MMT), so perhaps that was part of it.  The next time I made a hot cup I made sure to squeeze the tea bag instead and I think it seemed stronger.

And because this is a truthful review  - Micah didn't realize what kind of iced tea I was drinking and took a drink.  He did NOT like it, and refused to believe that it didn't contain his childhood nemesis, Slippery Elm Bark, until I read him the ingredients list out loud, at which point he began talking about the need for an ingredient audit!  So, *I* think it tastes fine, but just for full disclosure, that is obviously not a universal belief!

Thanks, Earth Mama Angel Baby!


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*I was sent a box of Milkmaid tea to review.  I was not compensated in any way for this post.  All opinions expressed are my own.  All links are Amazon affiliate links, so if you buy through them I have a few more pennies of play money.

Nathan and Butter

In my last post I referenced Nathan and butter, and then I realized I had only shared one (1!) of the many notable butter incidents of his lifetime.  I don't know why.  Maybe because it might make me look like a bad parent?  Anyway.

 

Nathan, about a year

 

But the humor value is too high to keep these to myself.  Besides, if I chronicle them here someday perhaps I can compile them and print them out and embarrass my children when they're teenagers fondly recall the unpredictability of life with small children funny things my kiddos did.

Butter incidents 1 through [approximately] 247: In the early days of having two, when Nathan was 14 months and felt that every obstacle in his path was put there as a challenge to his climbing skills, and Miriam was nursing a lot, and Mama was too forgetful to put the butter in the cupboard after meals, Nathan was  found on the table many times, sitting next to the butter dish, with butter smeared all over the table, himself, and the butter dish, naturally.  It was spring/summertime, so the warmth was very conducive to smearable butter! 

 

Nathan, about 14 months

wow, this picture is making me crave summer!

Butter incident 248: Recently on the way to church we thought he was quiet in the back seat because he was asleep. Not so. Halfway there, I twisted myself around in my seat to discover that he was quiet because he had reached the stick of butter intended for the potluck food, unwrapped it, broken it in two, smeared it on his coat, pants, hands, face, and carseat, and eaten about 1/8 of it.  Thankfully, I am a chronic overpacker, and had two choices of spare pants, sweats and dress pants, and we took the jacket off him in the parking lot, so we managed to appear nearly as presentable as usual.  Except I can't remember if that is the week we forgot his shoes and he wore only socks all day?  Possibly.  I think maybe it was but I was so relieved at finding the spare dress pants in the bottom of the bag that trivialities like shoes were no big deal to me.  I don't know why they would be anyway, but the butter threw things into perspective that morning for me!

 

Nathan sleeping (about 15 months)  :)

Adventure, right? :)

Wednesday reading...

I haven't really written at all about tandem nursing, but it has been a huge part of my experience mothering two, so I'm glad to be working on getting some of that down on paper this week.

So today, giant mug of tea and peanut butter toast by my side, I'm reading, skimming through looking for good quotes, and trying to pull all my thoughts and experiences together into one coherent stream. Kind of like trying to braid tangled hair at this point, but I'm slowly detangling one thought at a time.  I think it has been too long since I could whip out a good paper in an afternoon and late night back in high school...plus of course at that point I could go into a room and lock the door and have no distractions.  I have two cute ones now!  Yesterday I was curled up with the above books and Nathan brought me a book of nursery rhymes.  :)  After we read that we read Bears on Wheels, and then he was satisfied and ran off to play, and I got back to it... and I should get back to it now, since they're both playing happily at the moment!