Comments on: Waste Not Want Not

By: The B’s of Breastfeeding | Breastfeeding Moms Unite

The B’s of Breastfeeding | Breastfeeding Moms Unite — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:00:55 +0000

[...] and the milk produced when you or your child is sick is different from that when you are well. Breast milk can also be used as a substitute for regular milk in cooking or baking. To read a recipe for breast milk cupcakes, [...]

By: Milk In Your Coffee? | Breastfeeding Moms Unite

Milk In Your Coffee? | Breastfeeding Moms Unite — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:50:27 +0000

[...] me howl. I thought it might be a good way to end the week and put some polish on my past two posts Waste Not Want Not and Vanilla Breast Milk Cupcakes With Strawberry [...]

By: Cave Mother

Cave Mother — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:57 +0000

I just wish I could pump enough to make anything with it. Half a cupcake anyone? Baby spoon of ice cream? I am in awe of you ladies who can actually pump enough to feed your babies while you are out *and* have some spare to throw away! And FeministBreeder - go on, try it! Have a drink first and go crazy. I hated to waste any in the early days of oversupply, and I would wipe the excess off my chest with my hand and lick it up. Yum. We even offered it to our cat, but she wasn't interested. Cave Mother’s last blog post..I Heart My Ring Sling

By: TheFeministBreeder

TheFeministBreeder — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:02:04 +0000

I have to come clean her and admit that I have never once tasted my breastmilk. Yes, I am a full-on lactivist, but I don't want my own milk coming within a hundred miles of my own mouth. Honestly, the thought makes me gag a little. I know, I know, I'm sure it's incredibly hypcritical. But "human milk is for human babies" <--- babies being the operative word here I think. I just don't have the guts to taste it. I believe everyone when they say it tastes like canteloupe juice, but I don't have any interest in finding out for myself. I like my milk sterilized and pasteurized and bleached white (then dyed brown with chocolate). TheFeministBreeder’s last blog post..Okay, nobody panic…

By: Melodie

Melodie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:20:40 +0000

To those of you who donate your extra milk, I applaud you. The more I think about it the more I think using leftover milk (or even having leftover milk for that point) applies to moms whose babies have weaned (but still have some milk in the freezer) or to moms who thought they would bottle feed, pumped and stored some milk, but then didn't, or for part time bottle feeders - the ones who bottle feed in public, for instance, or who leave bottles for babysitters, but otherwise breastfeed from the source. Melodie’s last blog post..Waste Not Want Not

By: Foodie Fridays: Vanilla Breast Milk Cupcakes With Strawberry Frosting | Breastfeeding Moms Unite

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:03:21 +0000

[...] said yesterday’s post, Waste Not Want Not, that today I would post a recipe using breast milk. Now to be honest I have not tried the version [...]

By: Cilla

Cilla — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:43:00 +0000

Sorry, as much as I love breast feeding a breast milk I can’t get on board with ingesting it myself. Not that I haven’t tasted it (good stuff, you know), I just couldn’t deal with the thought – not that it’s gross so much as it just doesn’t seem natural to ingest one’s own milk. Plus BABIES need that milk, way more than I or my family do. That’s why every nook and cranny in my freezer is currently bulging with frozen milk. As soon as I can arrange a time to drop it off I’ll be donating a big percentage of it to Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas. I feel that even though they pasteurize the milk and charge processing fees, it’s going to little teeny NICU babies to whom it might make all of the difference in the world.