Etiquette using breast milk in baby food as a guest?

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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?

Fun fact: breast milk is not considered to be dairy under the laws of kashrut. It’s pareve!

Get a grip, you loon. 😆 disdain?

Menstrual blood in someone’s else pan is a hygiene issue, but also, an act of total disrespect.

So do people agree it's ok to put milk intended for a baby cow into a pan but not milk to feed a human baby? How bloody odd!

But there is no menstrual blood in the pan. The cup is cleaned before sterilisation.

Breastmilk is not dairy and can be eaten with milk in a Jewish household.

I hope I don’t know you in real life because I would be really upset to find I had used something that shared a dishwasher with your menstrual cup. I don’t imagine the dishwasher tablet is good for your insides either.
We have lots of bodily fluids and every single one is natural, it doesn’t mean it is ok to put them in places we eat (not talking about the breast milk). I give my toilet a really good clean, would you eat out of it? After all, it’s only bodily fluids that go down it.

I breast fed 5 for a long time but I just don't see the need to add breast milk to eggs . They will be reaping enough nutritional benefit from the breat feeding anyway . Adding it to eggs is unnecessary I think and definitley would not bother .

I think you have misread her post. The menstrual cup doesn’t go in the dishwasher. The (clean) cup is sterilised in the pan. The pan is washed in the dishwasher.

Yup, this. Pan not cup!

One has been treated with heat.

I also did breastfeeding and hand expressing. If I was at somebody else's place, I'd just use cows milk. Your baby will survive with cooked cows milk in their food for a short period of time.

And the saucepan stays cold?

Never, ever would it have crossed my mind to use breast milk in my baby’s food.

Me neither. Isn't the whole idea to wean off the breast on to food?!

I wouldn't find it offensive OP, but I would think you're being daft.

I can only imagine from some of these posts that pp are visualising a menstrual cup being removed from the vagina and plonked straight into the same pan that will cook tonight’s spaghetti.

The cup is thoroughly cleaned and all blood is removed before sterilisation, just as babies’ bottles are thoroughly washed in hot soapy water before being sterilised.

I don’t use a cup because I don’t have periods. If I were I wouldn’t sterilise it in someone else’s pan while a guest in their home because I recognise that there is a taboo but as several pp are pointing out that taboo is social or cultural. It’s no less real for this but those claiming it’s a matter of hygiene are incorrect.

Again, the baby is allergic to cows’ milk.

The baby is allergic to cows milk, it makes sense just to use breastmilk in foods that need a bit of milk.

I find it so sad that we are so ashamed of breast milk yet we'll drink milk from a cow no drama when they're animals that literally stand around in their own shit all day.

Yes, cows milk does need to be heat treated because it can contain really nady stuff like Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, and Salmonella. Human breast milk can sometimes contain some not great bacteria, like Staphylococcus, which is why donor milk for very sick or premature babies is pasteurised, but it is unlikely to harm an adult who happed to cook in a saucepan which once contained a tiny amount of breast milk and has subsequently been cleaned. And breast milk also contains a compound which is cleverly designed to kill a variety of bacteria which could harm health such as Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium perfringen, as well as containing pro biotic bacteria so chances are, it would do you more good than harm!

Nasty, not nady!

And sorry again, that was a reply for @weinerdog

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!

Exactly this! Unless you're planning to serve the food to everyone, I can't understand the issue!

I'm intrigued by the idea of cooking with breast milk because that never occurred to me, but it sounds like a nice idea. I can't see any reason why anyone would have an issue with you doing this with their pans and crockery. If they did, THAT would be extremely odd and precious of them. Sitting your bare ass down in their toilet seats is way worse lol (no offence)

Breast milk isn't dairy. That's why lots of babies who have a dairy allergy are breast fed for longer, because they can have human milk.
Would you honestly tell someone they couldn't bring breast milk into your house because you don't eat dairy? And are you suggesting Jewish mothers can't bf because they're not a kosher animal?

Eeek no I wouldnt like that at all.,Don't know why but just no. Take your own utensils if you must mess about like this. What a ridiculous faff.