Is breastmilk jewellery a disgusting idea?

[Crispmonster1]

I completely agree that breast is best etc etc but this???

...www.breastmilkjewelry.com/breast-milk-jewelry/

[sycamore54321]

I find it unappealing because the idea of any milk product - human or animal - being made 'permanent' just makes me think of gone-off milk, which is one of the few things that really turns my stomach.

However the realist in me says there is damn all (or most likely zero) actual milk in those and it just seems like another way to appeal to emotion to entice people to spend. But obviously others disagree.

[Singingforsanity]

I don't find it disgusting, I wouldn't get one myself but I'm guessing the processes it goes through to make it into jewellery (i.e. solidifying and hopefully preserving it) takes away the manky side of the 'bodily fluid' thing? It's not like pouring an ounce of breastmilk onto your chest... Each to their own and I'm sure it will be a nice reminder of an achievement and a shared journey for some.

[Iggi999]

You don't have to tell people what it is though. It could be personal to you. I have a piece of jewellery to remember babies I miscarried - if someone comments on it I don't tell them the story behind it.

[Sparklingbrook]

The only thing my Mum and Dad kept of my early years/ childhood are my school reports. I am v glad about that.

[Writerwannabe83]

Some people keep very strange mementos.....

I'm a Paediatric nurse and many moons ago I had been looking after a baby who had been having NG feeds and when I removed the feeding tube prior to discharging the baby the dad asked if he could keep it

I thought he was joking actually seeing as when I pulled it out it was lined with stomach juices and looking particularly disgusting but he was being serious and said he wanted it for the child's memory box!

I popped it into an envelope for him and told him it was the strangest request I'd ever had!!

Looking back I should have refused with legitimate reasons around germs etc but at the time I was just so shocked!!

[Sparklingbrook]

OMG Smile

I kept umbilical clips and the tags from hospital, first shoes etc. The DC have never been in the slightest bit interested. I am thinking of chucking them all out.

[TaliDiNozzo]

I guess this is a case of it not hurting anyone so I wouldn't say it's disgusting but I do think it's tacky and I don't really see the point personally.

[OnHold]

Didn't you just know that the website would be called Indigo Willow.

[8DaysAWeek]

Actually Cara you can get jewellery with placenta inclusions.

I have a lovely breastmilk necklace. They breastmilk has been set into a spiral shape and put into a clear pearl-shaped resin with flecks of silver through it to represent 6 months of BFing. I love it as BFing has been a big thing for me.

I will admit to at first thinking wtf. Can't explain why I thought that then, or really why I don't think it now, but each to their own

[SittinginaSleazySnackBar]

I can just imagine the conversation.
"I like your earrings."
"Oh thanks they are pearls of my breast milk."
It's not for me, but each to their own. I have kept DDs umbilical cord clip and my friend thinks that's weird.

[Christinayangstwistedsista]

D's had loads of shitty nappies, I really should have made a bag out of them

[SmileEachDay]

[[https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1029697/baby-teeth-jewelry/amp?client=safari ]]

You may laugh, Sparkling...

[Iggi999]

blood, wee, pus, poo, spunk or breastmilk
Hmm, which of these are suitable for human consumption? (It's not blood, wee, pus, poo or spunk)

Congratulations on your pg, writerwannabe

[Sparklingbrook]

I should have kept all the DS's milk teeth as they fell out.. Made a bracelet or something.

[oblada]

I don't find blood gross but other fluids maybe. But not breastmilk or blood... If you had survived a serious illness through some form of blood transfusion or something maybe you would want something that reflects that time in your life? I don't know I haven't gone through that and again even the breastmilk jewelleries are my cup of tea. But I can see why others may like the idea. What is gross is that others would find it gross....

[CaraAspen]

What next - placenta jewellery?
Gross gross gross

[CaraAspen]

Ugh.

[Writerwannabe83]

I first saw these advertised a few months after I'd stopped breast feeding my son, thought they were beautiful and felt disappointed that I had missed out.

However, I'm now pregnant again and am already forward thinking about when I'm going to pump off a few ounces and send it off to be made into a necklace

[Blueskyrain]

Other bodily fluids are used to sustain our life (and the life of a child before birth).

Blood, for example, is an essential fluid for both of us, and signifies quite a lot in life. Yet, having jewellery made of your own blood would generally be consdiered a bit weird and gross.

Equally, having jewellery made of a soggy biscuit, or some SMA, which may have been used to feed a tiny baby would seem odd.

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Setting aside the fact that breastfeeding was the unhappiest and miserable time of my life and just looking at them as pieces of jewellery they are dull and generic.

[oblada]

I think it's not everyone's cup of tea (bf my first for 5yrs and still going on with second at 2.5yrs but don't feel the push to get those either) but to find it gross is a bit worrying. Other bodily fluids are not used to sustain a tiny baby. It's gross and ignorant to put them all at the same level! What's disgusting about breastmilk?

[Iggi999]

I think pandora charms are disgusting. That makes just as much sense as your OP. What is it about the milk that makes it "disgusting", rather than just not to your taste??

[Blueskyrain]

Surely the best long term reminder of breastfeeding, is your child that you breastfed...

To me, its a bit weird, and a bit gross. I don't get jewellery made out of bodily fluids, whether thats blood, wee, pus, poo, spunk or breastmilk.

[DizzyFizzyLizzy]

considers enquiring about a bracelet made from SMA

[OddShoe]

I don't think it's disgusting but it is very odd.

I've breastfed both mine for a long time but I don't see the need to commemorate it, it's not really that big of a deal surely each to their own I guess.