Wahoo! Wonderful Mommy, the only thing that feels right to do now is to say a big congratulations to you. You just had your baby, and breastfeeding has begun. Breastfeeding is both a sweet and tiring experience. But, do not worry, having mixed feelings is perfectly normal. And praying for the smooth running of breastfeeding is the best thing to do for yourself and your new baby.
As a true mother, no matter what the issue is, just go through the prayers below, and you will find a reason to say amen in faith to these powerful breastfeeding momsโ prayers.
1. Breastfeeding Momโs Thanksgiving Prayers
Lord, I am delighted and grateful for my new baby. Thank you for the season of pregnancy; you were with me all the way, especially when no one could understand my discomfort. Oh my God, thank you for the safe my babyโs delivery. I didnโt know I would be able to go through, but you gave the grace and strength.
Thank you also for giving me the privilege to breastfeed my baby. I have seen many mothers nurse their babies loving without stress while they are busy doing other things, but it is not seeming as easy as it looks, even if the nurses are assuring that it will get better. Lord, I pray that your mercy will find me and minister grace to breastfeed my baby appropriately.
Thank you, Father, for blessing my body with an abundant supply of milk sufficient to give my baby every need in the name of Jesus. Thank you for helping me be the best mother to my baby in the name of Jesus.
2. Powerful Prayer to Enhance Lactation
My father, you provide to the birds of the air and beast of the field, bless my body with an abundant supply of breast milk. I have to feed my baby and also express some milk into the bottle so that my baby can have more than enough to feed on, fill my breast in the name of Jesus.
Enhance my breast milk with the power of life in Christ Jesus. My baby seems to cry more and fidget, and I think the milk is reducing. Help me, Lord, increase the supply of milk into my breast in the name of Jesus.
I speak life into my body. Let breast milk fill my breast as the waters fill the seas in the name of Jesus. I receive improved appetite to eat meals that will help my milk production in the name of Jesus.
The nurse also said that stress causes reduction of lactation, help me in this season when it is almost impossible to have adequate rest. Strengthen my body not to break under the weight of stress in the name of Jesus. Help my husband to help me in my weakness in the name of Jesus.
3. Prayer to Prevent Mastitis during breastfeeding
No weapon formed against me will prosper in the name of Jesus, and every tongue that rises against me is condemned (Isaiah54:17 paraphrased). Every weapon of mastitis is broken and destroyed over my life in the name of Jesus. Every blocked milk duct is relieved in the name of Jesus.
I speak against every hotness of the breasts; the power of the Holy Ghost cause feverish feelings to die down in the name of Jesus. Let the power of the Lord purify and make every milk duct-free for easy and safe passage of milk in the name of Jesus.
Let every storm of flu-like feelings disappear in the name of Jesus. I am healed for my babyโs sake in the name of Jesus. I speak against the power of mastitis in my breasts in the name of Jesus.
Light and life flood my spirit, soul and body in the name of Jesus, so I am delivered from mastitis in the name of Jesus.
4. Prayer to Heal Cracked Nipples during breastfeeding
Lord, this feeling is so discomforting; heal me from cracked nipples in the name of Jesus. Balm of Gilead, pour your healing grace into my body. My baby is crying so much because I am finding it difficult to breastfeed; help me Lord.
Grant me the grace to put my baby properly to the breast. Help my baby to latch on properly and suck without injuring my nipples. I really want to feed my baby well, but it is so difficult with this crack and pain.
I pray that all the remedies I am applying will work effectively well in the name of Jesus. Free me from the pain by mercy and grace in the name of Jesus. Let the healing power of the Holy Spirit fill me in the name of Jesus.
Lord, enable the breastfeeding assistant to help my baby and I in the name of Jesus. We cross the stage into the amazing stage of a wonderful breastfeeding experience in the name of Jesus.
5. Prayer to Produce Enough Breast Milk
According to the scriptures said in 1Tim 6:17b, โโฆ Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoymentโ, my body is blessed to secrete more breast milk for the fullest enjoyment of my new baby in the name of Jesus. I am being told that my milk is not enough to feed my baby. Lord, I do not believe you gave me this baby only to starve him. But your love for my baby is steadfast, and your mercy never comes to an end. Fill my breast with milk sufficient to feed my baby today in the name of Jesus.
I pray that I receive wisdom on how to help my body produce more in the name of Jesus. Let each breast overflow with sweet and healthy milk for my baby. I receive appetite and strength to feed on meals that can help my breast milk flow in the name of Jesus.
The nurses and caregivers affirm that breast milk will give my baby all the needed nutrients for proper growth and help me accept this reality. Deliver my mind from the thought of using formulas as the easy way out of breastfeeding. Help me continue till I break into the season of easy breastfeeding in the name of Jesus.
6. Prayers to Ease Breast Engorgement
My Lord, thank you for the safe delivery. I am grateful you brought us back home too. But Lord, my breast is engorged. Your word says in Philipains 4:6, โBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Godโ. So. I come before your throne to ask you for mercy and deliverance from this breast pain caused by engorgement in the name of Jesus.
I ask for your mercy to ease the engorgement in my breast and take away the pain in the name of Jesus. Increase my babyโs appetite in the name of Jesus so that every lump in my breast will melt in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Is there any issue why my baby is not sucking as required? I pray that your light will unveil and make it known in the name of Jesus. I repel every evil force around our home that could be causing this terrible pain in the name of Jesus.
Let every part of my breasts and body begin to respond to the power of divine life in the name of Jesus. I received my health back as the pain eased off in the name of Jesus.
7. Prayer to Help My Baby Latch Properly
Lord, the creator of heaven and earth, youโve given me this precious jewel to love and care for all the days of my life. I pray that as this sweet baby breathes easily without thinking or fretting, grant the same gift and grace for sucking voraciously in the name of Jesus.
The nurses said if my baby does not latch well, sucking will be tedious and stressful. I do not want my little baby to know stress at all; give my baby the sharp instinct and remarkable strength to latch on my breast properly in the name of Jesus.
O baby, I speak to your heart, and I know that you can hear me. The Lord gave you life and made you go through nine whopping months in my womb. So, just as you weathered every storm you encountered and you prevailed in the womb, you will also prevail at this season when sucking and eating seem stressful in the name of Jesus.
Every tied tongue in my baby is loosened in the name of Jesus. And great and healthy appetite is restored in the name of Jesus.
8. Prayers to Heal Thrush during Breastfeeding
Heavenly Father, thank you for your grace and mercy. I am grateful because you hear me every time I call. I pray for your mercy today to deliver me from the hand of the messenger of the enemy โ thrush. This sickness wants to deny me the joy of breastfeeding my baby in peace as other women do. Help me, dear Lord.
I speak against every candida fungus in my breast in the name of Jesus. This evil thing is also affecting my baby. And painfully, it is not allowing my baby to feed well, Lord, I very present help in time of need, help me and heal us from thrush in the name of Jesus.
Flush our bodies with your powerful blood and destroy every trace of thrush in our bodies in the name of Jesus. Help me keep to all medical advice to prevent this thing from spreading more than it has done already in the name of Jesus.
Lord, help our bodies to heal fast and let all the medications we are receiving work well for the good of our bodies in the mighty name of Jesus.