Katherine Catone writes:
<< Cabbage! I always use it in place of ice these days for EVERYTHING, and
since you are needing to reduce the milk supply in the accessory breasts
the cabbage should do that nicely! >>
I know from long Lactnet reading that cabbage is great for engorgement and
other forms of swelling.
But I can't find anywhere in my books or my archive search a plain description
of how you use it. Surely not straight from the greengrocer? Do I need to
soften it somehow? Crush it? Freeze/thaw it? (or just freeze it, then I
guess it's like the bags of frozen peas a bottle-feeding cousing of mine was
told by her ped to use) Parboil it? Chop it up to a poultice?
Please somebody send me a plain recipe.
Feeling dopey but helpless as I confront my potential dinner / medical aid --
Elisheva Urbas
dispensing bf advice w/o a license in cold gray New York City