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Breast Milk Cheese - Would You Try It?

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Penthesilea:
I voted I'm not sure.

I find it a little bit gross, but not totally. And as others have said before, it's illogical to be grossed out by human milk, but having no second thoughts about milk from a cow, goat, sheep, horse, whatever.

I guess for me it would depend mostly on the type of cheese itself. The look, the smell, its consitence. I like cheese in general, but there are plenty kinds I don't like or even wouldn't want to try, no matter where the milk comes from.

I only skimmed through the article posted early in the thread, but I have the feeling that the chef simply made is as a publicity stunt. And/or that he and his wife have not much knowledge about breastfeeding. It's normal that women have too much milk early on. If you don't mess with the process, it regulates itself pretty soon.
The demand regulates the supply. Simple as that. Just don't trick your body by false pretenses.

serious crayons:
Though the more you use, the more you produce. If it's being consumed (by a baby, by restaurant diners, whatever), the body continues to produce it. That's how wet nurses were able to nurse babies other than their own, or how some mothers nurse their kids well into toddlerhood and beyond.

Once while I was nursing I went out of town overnight on a work assignment. I brought a pump, but since I had no means of keeping the milk refrigerated, I had to dump it out. But I still had to pump it, or else it would start to go away. Gee, why didn't I think to make it into cheese and sell it in a restaurant?!

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 20, 2010, 03:56:17 pm ---Though the more you use, the more you produce. If it's being consumed (by a baby, by restaurant diners, whatever), the body continues to produce it. That's how wet nurses were able to nurse babies other than their own, or how some mothers nurse their kids well into toddlerhood and beyond.

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Yup. That's exactly what I meant. If you trick your body with the false pretense of a pump, it will continue to produce "too much" milk. It's not too much. It's as much as there is demand. Whether the demand comes from the baby or is artificially created by a pump doesn't matter.
This is not to condemn pumps, BTW. It was meant in reply to the chef's statement that they simply had too much milk and thus he thought about what to do with it. If you have continously too much milk, you're doing it wrong, or on purpose. May it be for donating the milk, or for a publicity stunt. I simply don't believe his innocent statement of "we had too much milk and didn't know what to do with it".

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 20, 2010, 05:03:55 pm ---Yup. That's exactly what I meant. If you trick your body with the false pretense of a pump, it will continue to produce "too much" milk. It's not too much. It's as much as there is demand. Whether the demand comes from the baby or is artificially created by a pump doesn't matter.
This is not to condemn pumps, BTW. It was meant in reply to the chef's statement that they simply had too much milk and thus he thought about what to do with it. If you have continously too much milk, you're doing it wrong, or on purpose. May it be for donating the milk, or for a publicity stunt. I simply don't believe his innocent statement of "we had too much milk and didn't know what to do with it".
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Oh, I see, right. If she pumped like crazy for a while just to build up some extra for when she's out of town or something, she might get a temporary buildup. But ordinarily, the supply naturally adjusts to meet the demand. It doesn't just pour out on its own, so you have no choice but to serve it in a restaurant!  :laugh:

Kelda:
Glasgow's Children's Hospital has a milk bank... nursing Mum's can donate their own milk to feed needy babies.

I know my friend though about it, she was unable to feed her own baby, as Emma was so premature, but she had the supply coming in..

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