Etiquette using breast milk in baby food as a guest?

[Humdrumdum]

We're going to stay with family and I use breast milk in breakfast for our baby, usually scrambled eggs or porridge in a pan to make sure the extra nutrients being missed are chucked in.

They're fine with us cooking for ourselves but would it be weird if I did it there with their pan and bowls or am I overthinking it?

Your massively over thinking it

It's washed up in hot soapy water. If they are fine with their utensils and glasses touching your mouth, then what would be the problem with a particular food?

Do it but don’t tell them.

This !!!!

Or maybe take your own pan if you have space in luggage. Because while it should of course be fine, I bet anything the man of the house would be uncomfortable with eating out of a pan that your bodily fluids have been in.

My only thought on this …
are the nutrients of which you speak not lost in the heat?

I wouldn't mind it, but I think it would be odd to some people and they wouldn't like it. If it's just for a short time can you just use normal milk?

If all nutrients were lost in heat then we’d all starve eating cooked food….

Bazinga!

Assuming you're only cooking for the baby and pouring in expressed BM from a bottle rather than squirting it straight into the pan/bowl from your boob, I doubt they'll even notice. Crack on!

Overthinking, I'm sure they won't notice. If it's bothering you just use cows milk for this visit.

I Extended BF both DCs, still am with DS. I would say for a short visit, I would abandon cooking with BM and just feed before a meal and give a smaller portion. I just think that it's a little intrusive to put your BM in others' cookware without asking your host (possibly making them feel uncomfortable) or take a small pan and a spoon with you and explain why.

As long as you're not serving them up scrambled egg made with your breast milk then I don't see why it would bother them x

BM is amazing, but it is still a bodily fluid and I just would feel weird about having bodily fluids that weren't mine in significant volumes in one of my pans. To me it's different to saliva on cups and cutlery, but I can articulate why.

It find it curious that so many people consider it weird to put milk from a human body in a saucepan but not weird to put milk from a cow's body in a saucepan.

You are suggesting breast milk in their pan not your actual breast!!

I mean, are you squeezing in fresh from your breast into the saucepan?? Otherwise why would they mind? Just tell them so no one tries to nick babies porridge

Being completely honest, I would find this a bit grim. If it’s relevant, I breastfed both of my children but I’d still find it weird and yucky if a guest did this in my home. I can’t really articulate why but probably, as others have said, because it’s a bodily fluid. Though I happily eat and cook with the bodily fluid of a cow so I guess that makes me totally unreasonable…but I wouldn’t really like it if a guest did this (though I’d not say anything if they did).

Any milk is a bodily fluid. Is bodily fluid from a cow somehow less offensive?

That said, it seems an unnecessary faff to me and I probably wouldn't bother for a few days.

Cow’s milk is pasteurised.

Making foods with BM is fine, negligible health benefits if it’s heated to a high temp but if you’ve got some spare then do it. But why just not leave it when you’re away? A few days will make zero difference. And it’s a lot of faff.

Bring a plastic plate/bowl for the baby and add the milk to that rather than to the pan? Would work for porridge made in a microwave. Might not work for scrambled egg unless you’re willing to microwave that too.

This.

Unless they are vegetarian, they will have bodily juices of animal flesh in their pans. Eggs obviously are unfertilised body juices.

Yabu for adding milk to scrambled eggs.

I wouldn't worry about using their pans and bowls though. You could always make porridge in the bowl, in the microwave to use fewer pans