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Ice Cream Made from Human Milk - Opinions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 409611" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It is odd that we find this a reason to be squeamish.</p><p></p><p>I've known women who fed each other's babies, although usually it's within family or very close friends. </p><p></p><p>When easy child was born, any spare breast milk was gratefully accepted by the hospital for premmie babies. But thanks to HIV concerns, by the time difficult child 1 was born I had to pour all my excess milk down the sink. I just expressed it down the drain. Very sad. I had enough to feed an orphanage.</p><p></p><p>After easy child was born, I had to plan for my return to work. I wanted to keep breastfeeding which meant I had to get her used to taking expressed milk form a bottle. I had frozen my breast milk in ice cube trays but found the cubes were too big to fit in the baby bottle. husband had to cut the ice cubes up, which of course meant he got it on his fingers, all over the knife, all over the board - and of course at some point he licked his fingers. Said it tasted like a caramel ice cream.</p><p></p><p>I do think making ice cream commercially from human milk is socially offensive - turning it into an expensive luxury when there are babies in the world dying for lack of access to breast milk - very sad. Why can't they make a powdered baby formula from the human milk?</p><p></p><p>But then - as humans, we do some weird stuff in the name of culinary experimentation. There is a bloke I've heard of who collected his own blood to make a blood sausage, then served it at a dinner party to his friends. He said it was the ultimate in self-sacrifice, a gesture of love. They all knew what they were eating, he did not hide it. And somehow, it was legal (perhaps because it was all done in full knowledge and consent). But still - ooky.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 409611, member: 1991"] It is odd that we find this a reason to be squeamish. I've known women who fed each other's babies, although usually it's within family or very close friends. When easy child was born, any spare breast milk was gratefully accepted by the hospital for premmie babies. But thanks to HIV concerns, by the time difficult child 1 was born I had to pour all my excess milk down the sink. I just expressed it down the drain. Very sad. I had enough to feed an orphanage. After easy child was born, I had to plan for my return to work. I wanted to keep breastfeeding which meant I had to get her used to taking expressed milk form a bottle. I had frozen my breast milk in ice cube trays but found the cubes were too big to fit in the baby bottle. husband had to cut the ice cubes up, which of course meant he got it on his fingers, all over the knife, all over the board - and of course at some point he licked his fingers. Said it tasted like a caramel ice cream. I do think making ice cream commercially from human milk is socially offensive - turning it into an expensive luxury when there are babies in the world dying for lack of access to breast milk - very sad. Why can't they make a powdered baby formula from the human milk? But then - as humans, we do some weird stuff in the name of culinary experimentation. There is a bloke I've heard of who collected his own blood to make a blood sausage, then served it at a dinner party to his friends. He said it was the ultimate in self-sacrifice, a gesture of love. They all knew what they were eating, he did not hide it. And somehow, it was legal (perhaps because it was all done in full knowledge and consent). But still - ooky. Marg [/QUOTE]
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