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Breastfeeding jewellery

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kluesme · 04/10/2024 13:30

I don't really understand why you would want it, it's a bodily fluid. The idea of sending my bodily fluid through the post to some stranger to make it into a ring makes me feel a bit sick. I probably an being unreasonable but it can't just be me

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takealettermsjones · 04/10/2024 13:52

Don't do it then.

It's more "grim" imo to make fun of a harmless way people choose to grieve that affects you not one jot, @Catza.

ManyATrueWord · 04/10/2024 13:50

I've got a pendant. I keep it as a momento of something special to me only that was the foundation to my relationship with my child. I don't think I could wear it out. It is made from a bodily fluid after all. A bit Victorian, like watch ropes made of hair.

ComtesseDeSpair · 04/10/2024 13:45

I wouldn’t want it personally, but I suppose when you think about what quite a lot of things are or have been made from (bone, antler, fur, skin, ambergris, baleen, pearl etc) then bits of human isn’t any more sick-making or “grim” in comparison.

Toomanysquishmallows · 04/10/2024 13:36

Totally agree about both !

Catza · 04/10/2024 13:34

I am with you on that one. And also post-mortem jewellery made out of ashes of your loved one. Grim.