to find the idea of tasting breast milk a bit gross?

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Am currently BF and have no desire to taste my own BM. In fact the thought of it turns my stomach. I know that it is 'magical stuff' but neither do I have a desire to taste other bodily fluids which serve an important purpose!

Am I the only one that thinks its a bit, well, yuk!

Don't then. You don't have to.

I know someone who used it in her partners tea once

do you like tasting a cow's breastmilk??

No one is forcing you (are they??)

However I wouldn't equate BM with my wee, another bodily fluid.

I know I don't have to but there are other threads about frozen expressed breast milk tasting 'soapy'. I would have no idea if my BM had 'turned'. Was just wondering if the majority do actually taste it?

I haven't bf but I can't see why your own species' milk is ick but you'll happily lap up the milk of at least one other species.

Curiosity got the better of me

I had no desire to taste mine, but would test it for temperature if it had been expressed and would lick off dribbles, as a child progresses to weaning I think it is a good principle to never feed you child anything that you haven't tasted at least once yourself (like baby food pouches and fruit shoots etc), and it's also the best way to check the temp

eosmum - were you pleasantly surprised!?

Iggly - hadn't thought of wee - was thinking more about discharge or snot .

Strangely I have no problem with cow's milk (!!) but would be even more grossed out at the thought of someone else's BM...

Well because they wonder why their babies won't take it from a bottle but do from the boob. Especially if they take formula.

i dont think its a gross idea at all. Its not really the same thing as other body fluids as it is an actual food.

it's juice SQUEEZED from a person

my partner never tasted mine out of curiosity - he had no desire to when I was exclusively BFing - there was no need! the temp was fine, it couldn't be "off".. but would like me test for temp when we started giving expressed bottles.

I do think it's wierd when partners have it in their tea or on their cereal - I feel for the poor woman who pumped that milk out of themselves (because expressing is shit isn't it?) only for it to be "wasted" on a grown man who could make do with something else! I hated expressing so much that I would literally cry over spilt milk if any of it was wasted cause it meant I'ld have to express some more!

Mine was slightly sweet - not at all soapy. I once managed to squirt it, quite by accident, in DH's face. Just as he bent over to kiss me when he came in and I was getting ready to latch dd on . We still laugh about it now. If he drank milk, I might have been tempted to put it in his tea

I tasted mine lots of times when I had to check the temperature of expressed milk and so did XP. It's very sweet.

I've always wanted some one asked why they don't mind drinking cows breast milk to respond "I don't, I drink soy milk".

FWIW, I eat beef, Doesn't mean I want some of my leg in a stew.

Apparently (or so I learned here on Mumsnet) breastfeeding women in Mongolia will offer their breasts round the room like a tray of canapes on social occasions. I'm kind of glad I don't live in Mongolia.

ROFL marriedinwhite.

Couldn't agree more cremeegg about the grown man! Ewwwww!

YABU but I totally get you. Always thought it a bit ick too but I'll happily drink cows milk!! I am currently bfing and never tasted it. I am a bit curious though. My dd was also curious when I brought DTs home from hospital and when I had some expressed she wanted to try it so I let her. Not sure she liked it...she was undecided!

somewherewest they need to export Pombears to Mongolia...!

You know yabu! It's less icky than cows milk fgs.

It tastes like slightly sweet water. If you're testing temp in a bottle, you'll probably lick the bit ff your wrist, as you would if it was formula (which really does taste grim!).

I can state that I prefer breastmilk to cow's milk.

I don't like cow's milk. It makes me a bit sick if I drink it without flavour.

But I was able to drink about 100ml of breastmilk once when I spent an overnight away from DS at 2 months.
I couldn't freeze it or anything, so I just thought why would I let that good food go to waste?

Never found the need to repeat the experience, though.

I've tasted it, got to when it's EBM defrosted to see if it's still ok. It's tastes like full fat cows milk with sugar added its very sweet.

I've also tasted formula, it's horrid (not a get at FFers just personal taste.

Love it that people in general find BM revolting but happily drink milk from
a big animal that eats grass and licks it own bum

Sweetkitty, are you drinking cat's milk?

It's very sweet and a bit metallic. Well, mine is.

I didn't love it. No desire to stockpile and use it on my Special K.

Formula was horrible by comparison.

I don't think I would want to taste someone else's. Not now it has been described as 'person juice' anyway