Other uses for breastmilk

[Jenkeywoo]

Following the thread about breastmilk for healing has anyone else used breastmilk for anything else?! I had a huge glut of expressed milk for DD1 and the freezer was full so I put about a pint in a bottle and shook it up to make breastmilk butter! - it was a beautiful pale white colour. DD had some in her dinner and DH unwittingly had some on toast.

a pint. wow.

you could make bm custard.

pmsl at your DH

I have used it in tea

The HV told me to use it to wipe the babies eyes if they had sticky eye. I got some antibiotics from the doc instead.
What about breastmilk yoghurt and cheese????

It's supposed to be good for 'sticky eye'/conjunctivitis - you squirt it in to your DC' s eye and forgo the need for eye drops.

Make a nice rice pudding - it'll be SO nutritious

I'd think you'd need it to be fresh to have any 'healing' properties for sticky eye and the like?

Didn't somebody make some bm soap?

How long did you have to shake for to make the butter? I've got a few pints in the freezer too....

DH always wondered if you could make breast milk cheeses.

Good for general rashes and skin disorders.

I have a wierd thing with my breastmilk - too much lactase, which means it goes off if I freeze it. I used to have to scald it before freezing or it would taste of soap.

Oh you can also squirt up stuffy noses to de-stuff them.

BM ice cream?? Mix it up with some coconut.
Hmmm bet that would be lovely

Same here yesireallycan. DS1 always used to throw up unless my milk was freshly expressed (same day), and I didn't know why until I stumbled across this on Kellymom. It's a faff though, so I don't express much.

Donate it to the breastmilk bank at your maternity hospital - help the babies who need it.

bath in it! Or bath baby in it

Hmmm, maybe me too, DD hated expressed milk and it always smelt really odd!

ohhh the doantion gets the prize surely.

I did use to donate approx 4 pints a week to the milk bank as I was exclusively pumping for dd1 and ended up producing around 40-50oz a day - the butter incident was when the milk bank hadn't been and my freezer was just too full! Not being able to breastfeed DD1 was a very painful experience for me but being able to donate my milk went some of the way to easing the pain - I just wish donated milk was available to dd2 when she was born at 35 weeks and had to be tube fed formula until my milk came in.

Jenkey,that is fantastic! Butter! Far out!
But why do you feel bad? Pesumably your baby still got your breastmilk even though it was not given direct from breast?

Moondog - dd2 was born at 35 weeks and the first question they asked me was 'what brand of formula do you want?' - I totally understand that premature babies need milk asap but it was still a shock to be asked that when I planned to breastfeed (which luckily I am). DD1 - I do still feel sad sometimes as expressing full time for 6 months was hard and I sometimes feel I spend more time pumping and steralising and stuff than I did with my baby, let's put it this way, she watched a lot of baby einstein!

How odd...didn't they help you to express for no. 2
God,you deserve a medal.Fantastic effort expressing for so long.

i used to donate 50-70oz per week, still to start donating this time dd2 only 6weeks. i once made cookies using ebm as had started before realising i had no cows milk!

used it for dds' sticky eyes - works a treat.

I've heard its good for nappy rash.

Jenkey, I had the same experience about being asked what kind of formula I wanted my prem baby to have. In the end though he was on a drip for 3 days and wasn't given any milk until mine came in so I was able to avoid the formula thing. You couldn't help your situation and you did brilliantly to express for 6 months. I only managed 4 months and I frequently wanted to throw the pump out of the window!