Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC, author of "Making More Milk":

"What we eat CAN matter. 'Mother Food' is a wonderful collection of historical traditions from cultures around the world and what they feed mothers to support good health, breastfeeding, and plentiful milk production. Hilary Jacobson has put years of research into pulling together information that has almost been lost to the western world; every mother will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone who works with or supports breastfeeding mothers."


Hilary Jacobson, author of "Mother Food"

Jacobson is a founding member of the non-profit MOBI Motherhood Intl, an online resource for mothers facing extreme breastfeeding challenges, especially low milk supply.

She says that she researched "Mother Food" when she experienced persistent and severe low milk supply with each of her four children.

"When I saw how 'lactogenic' foods and herbs helped me make more milk I began to study mother-food traditions from around the world.   

Women have always been aware of foods that help them breastfeed, and these same foods were the preferred diet in the postpartum. "The more I learned, the more strongly I felt about creating a resource that would encapsulate and preserve our mother-food heritage. Once passed down from mother to daughter, now this knowledge was in danger of being lost."

Today, Hilary Jacobson lives in Oregon where she works as a writer, speaker, and nutritional mentor for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.