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

[Celebelly]

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?

I would happily turn my fat into jewellery but I don’t think I could wear a pendant that big.

Go for it OP. I spent a decade breastfeeding (not the same child!) and wish I’d done this!

I could make a sculpture, breathless, perhaps a small igloo.

Too late for me anyway but it just doesn’t appeal. No.matter what struggles someone may have had to successfully establish breast feeding it seems a beyond bizarre concept sending your breast milk off in the post so that you can receive something back that can be made into a piece of commemorative jewellery. I think I’d always be thinking that what came back had been produced from a spoonful of formula and that the company concerned was laughing all the way to the bank.
at my expensive.
That said, I’m quite accepting of the idea of using a loved ones ashes in a similar way, but that provides a tangible reminder of someone no longer living.
Surely it’s enough just to know that you successfully breast fed your child - a piece of jewellery just seems an unnecessary badge of honour for feeding your child.

@HaroldThatsEnough for me, it's because it was the hardest thing I've ever done. Harder than mud runs, harder than exams, harder than labour (including back to back labour). I got 'trophies' for those things, why not this?

I am impressed with myself, and even though it's a 'normal bodily function', clearly it's hard or more people would be able to do it (please see previous post explaining mix fed dc1, I do not think formula is evil/lazy/insert negative word, it saved my breastfeeding).

Anyone claiming that breastmilk resin looks like an opal or pearl is BU.

I would spend the kind of money we're talking on a proper piece of jewellery instead.

I wouldn’t. But breastfeeding was neither a journey nor difficult for me, it was just the way I fed them. I’m also not a huge fan of the way it looks if I’m honest.

Do it OP. I used Rejewelled for mine, which is run by a lovely mum (not a big multinational company who will send you a piece of formula jewellery in some bizarre conspiracy ). She also does ashes, hair, etc.

I had shimmer added to my milk which means it does look like a pearl, it's really pretty! Most places that make this kind of jewellery will add various things to the milk to make it more decorative.

I like it as a physical keepsake from my time breastfeeding (some of which was very difficult, some beautifully easy). It's as simple as that. I don't tell people it's made of breast milk and no one has ever guessed. If anyone comments and says it's a pretty necklace I just say thanks. It's not flashy, so it mostly goes unnoticed.