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Poll: Breast Milk
A discussion inspired by this pin:
http://pinterest.com/pin/38210296808140378/
Have you tried your own breast milk?
Would you?
Would you taste/drink someone elses?
How do you feel about breast milk popsicles?
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Re: Poll: Breast Milk
I never did.
Probably would've like on a dare.
Would not taste/drink someone else's.
I feel like they'd be messy.
No.
No.
No.
Gross.
Exactly.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Nope.
Probably not on purpose.
Negatory.
Sick.
Yes I have, sometimes if Alex wouldn't take a bottle of it I'd taste it make sure it was still okay and also any time I unthawed breast milk I would taste it before giving it to him to make sure it was okay. ETA: It's not like I sat down with a glass of my breastmilk and a bag of oreos or anything - but I have tasted a decent amount if you added up all the occasions that I mentioned.
I would NOT taste another women's under any circumstance.
I think it's a great idea, I could see it being just as easy to just put it in an ice cube tray and break it up into little pieces to give to baby which would be less messy in my opinion.
No
No
Definitely not
While I get the idea behind it and don't think its gross per se, I do think it's unnceccessary and not worth the trouble. Plastic teethers have always worked fine for us.
To me, the idea of all breast milk products (teethers, ice cream, cheese) is gross. It is what it is, if you choose to feed your baby that way, cool, whatever.
I also dislike the idea of giving a child any sort of frozen milk to end up dripping down their chin and being soured. Nasty.
Stand up for something you believe in.
I fully intend on BFing if I can. So take my answers with a grain of salt I guess.
I don't plan on trying my own milk, but if it happens it happens - and there's a good chance it will at some point.
I think I'm just weirded out my the idea of a boob milk popsicle. I plan on storing/freezing my milk for daycare use, but baby won't get it when it's frozen.
I totally accidentally sprayed Guy in the face once. It was the funniest shiit EVAR.
Yes, but not on purpose.
No.
Never.
Eww.
updated 10.03.12
I'm with you on products, i.e. people who sell their breast milk to have products made so therefore your baby is eating someone else's breast milk. Or worse, the Baby Ga Ga ice cream that they were selling over seas that is made of breast milk. I wouldn't do that, ever. But as for my own, he's getting it anyways so I just don't think it's a big deal.
With the popsicle, breast milk doesn't go sour that fast and it would be basically the same thing as when baby spits up the milk anyways. In my opinion the drips from the popsicle would be better because it's not partially digested and therefore doesn't smell bad lol.
Of course I've tried it! I was super curious in the early days and just had to know what it tasted like. My husband has even tried a sip. I know you're all going to think that's weird, but he was just as curious as I was. It's not like he used it as creamer in his coffee. (And I LOL'ed at Christina's comment about drinking it with Oreos.) Anyway, if it's good enough for my baby to drink, it's certainly not that weird for me to just taste it.
There's another mommy on this board who tastes her frozen milk before giving it to her baby, but I won't say who in case she didn't want anyone to know that.
Anyway, I would never taste someone else's. That grosses me out since it didn't come from my own body.
That reminds me though, that there are organizations out there that supply donated breastmilk for other women's babies and I struggle with whether I could give another woman's breastmilk to my child. Breastmilk really is best, so I would think I'd want to give my baby even donated milk over formula, but I don't know if I could actually come to terms with it. No one would ever think twice about receiving donated blood for a blood transfusion so human milk shouldn't be any different, but it weirds me out. However, some days I struggle with the fact that people drink cow's milk. Which is for baby cows. We don't drink human milk because women can't be milked like cows all day long.
Well maybe some would, for the right amount of money. Being a human cow might be better than my job right now.As for popsicles, that sounds messy. BUT, I have given Kyler a breastmilk slushie by spoon before.
1. No
2. No
3. Definitely no!
4. I actually gave Adrian some BM ice cubes in a mesh feeder when he first started teething. I don't see anything wrong with that. It isn't like you are cooking it or using it as an ingredient. It is simply a piece of frozen BM. I will say that it was messy and sticky, so we only did it twice. Frozen peaches worked much better!
I pretty much agree with everything Tara said.
1. Yes I have tried it, and I didn't think there was anything weird about doing it at the time(umm that is what sustained my child for the first 7 months of his life until he had solid foods too) but everyone is different. It wasn't like we were drinking it from a cup, more like dipping our finger in and trying it. H has tried it too, we also tried a tiny bit anytime he had a frozen bottle just to make sure it was fine. I guess we are weird.
2. Yes, see above.
3. Yeah see that grosses me out because it is from someone else. On a kind of related note, one thing that has changed for me is that ever since I had P I cannot for the life of me drink cow milk straight, it just seems yucky to me(and I loved milk before). I guess that is what pumping and feeling like a cow can do to you.
4. I have never tried that but it doesn't seem that strange to me. I can understand wanting to do that if you have teething baby that hadn't started solids yet.
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