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...to think about getting a piece of breastmilk jewellery?!

284 replies

Celebelly · 25/08/2019 22:10

I can't work out if I think it's a bit gross or lovely!

Basically, from what I gather, you send off a little of your milk and it gets made into a kind of powder/resin and you can have it set as a ring or pendant, etc. Visually it looks quite nice, from what I've seen, and given breastfeeding has been a difficult but ultimately v rewarding journey for us, I kind of like the idea of something to commemorate it when we're done (which hopefully is a while off yet).

But am I mad? Has anyone had breastmilk jewellery made? Do I need to give my head a wobble?

OP posts:
CherryPlum · 26/08/2019 22:17

I should get a 'blood bracelet' made from menstrual blood before my periods stop altogether, now that I'm peri-menopausal. And as I have two DDs, they'll be starting their periods in the next few years so could mark the occasion with blood bracelets of their own.

RebornFlame · 26/08/2019 23:24

CherryPlum, I can’t tell if you’re joking but that sounds like a beautiful idea to me.

Watchingthyme · 26/08/2019 23:33

@RebornFlame
You can’t tell she’s joking?!

Watchingthyme · 26/08/2019 23:33

@RebornFlame
Oh I get it. You’re joking too
Ugh

TrainspottingWelsh · 26/08/2019 23:34

One of my cats ate most of a magpie earlier, and brought me another dead one. As she’s getting older, and next summer might not be up to aggressive prey I’m thinking of getting a memento. Perhaps the whole magpie as a fascinator for when/if dd gets married, and the wings of the other as earrings with the remnants of the head tastefully mounted in gold and used to start a charm bracelet.

RedPanda2 · 26/08/2019 23:56

My initial thought was ewwww but then I remembered my dad is having jewellery made for his children with the staples from the organ transplant that saved his life. So if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy, go for it!

HennyPennyHorror · 27/08/2019 00:40

Panda Shock did he think of that himself?? Or is there an actual industry that does it?

CecilyP · 27/08/2019 00:48

That’s brilliant, trainspotting. Whatever OP finally decides, this thread just keeps giving!

colourlessgreenidea · 27/08/2019 00:53

Meconium droplet earrings anyone?

They’d be beautiful - kind of like onyx Grin

JenniR29 · 27/08/2019 01:05

Do it if it’s what you want, it’s your milk and you will be wearing it.

katesalwayslate · 27/08/2019 04:29

YUCK

Monty27 · 27/08/2019 07:55

@CatteStreet I'm not talking about the jewelry bit. I am merely commenting because breast feeding is supposed to be normal and natural. Why have to have a trinket made from it? 🤔

RedPanda2 · 27/08/2019 09:08

HennyPennyHorror he's doing the design himself. He's very creative so I'm looking forward to what he comes up with. Personally it'll make me feel happy to wear it but you don't know how you'll feel unless it happens to you.

GummyGoddess · 27/08/2019 09:26

Do not care if people think it's yuck, especially since mumsnet thinks a lot of things are yuck that I also do (reusable nappies and wipes, reusable sanpro, towels for an entire week).

I'm still doing it Grin

SerenDippitty · 27/08/2019 10:37

We look back on the Victorians and think they were quite odd for having brooches made of the hair of their dead loved ones, and I guarantee people in the future will think our obsession with honouring and commemorating completely routine events is equally as odd.

The Victorians used to take photographs of dead loved ones often post as though alive. These photos were called memento mori. Google Victorian death photography if really interested!

SerenDippitty · 27/08/2019 10:37

Posed not post.

Thehagonthehill · 27/08/2019 10:41

I have a pair of large ,droopy but the b's to remind me of my breastfeeding years and a healthy DD.
I also have memories of wearing milk in various forms!

M3lon · 27/08/2019 10:41

hmm...well I think I still might have (5 yo) BM in the depths of my freezer...wonder what sort of jewelry that might make....

MrsPellegrinoPetrichor · 27/08/2019 10:53

I like it,I like the jewellery made from ashes too.

habibihabibi · 27/08/2019 10:59

If it wasn't for Mumset I would have never believed there was a market or money to be made of of this type of shite novelty.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 27/08/2019 11:06

Until recently I would have been a bit on the 'ick' side of the fence but then I had a ring made from DH's ashes and it brings ne such comfort that I can understand why you would do it. For those doubting the authenticity, I used Ashes into Glass who have a licence to handle cremains. It means I can take DH everywhere I go.

Breathlessness · 27/08/2019 13:35

It’s not my thing but if it gives people comfort or joy and doesn’t cause any harm to anyone else then it’s not an issue. A piece of jewellery is unobtrusive and no one would know what it is unless the wearer chose to tell people.

HaroldThatsEnough · 27/08/2019 13:42

I can understand that ashes made into jewellery might give comfort to someone grieving for a loved one. I can't understand the need to celebrate an entirely normal function of the human body by wearing bodily fluids.

Breathlessness · 27/08/2019 13:51

It’s not my thing but I would say that milk is different to other bodily fluids as it’s a foodstuff. My mother kept my first milk tooth. That’s odd to me. I think she found it odd when she discovered it tucked away in an old jewellery box about 30 years later but it made sense to her at the time.

HaroldThatsEnough · 27/08/2019 14:07

Or own fat is a foodstuff, as is glycogen in our liver. Our blood nourishes an unborn child.