my friends ds was fed breastmilk at school !!!

[mummyof2bunnies]

My friend came round today in a bit of a state, she was asking her ds7 what he had done at school today and he replied that so and so's mum came in to class today and was telling them all about her new baby and brought baby food for them to try, and that they got to try breastmilk on teaspoons and breastmilk mixed in baby food now i am no prude i breastfed both my dds but i would be horrified if my dd came home and told me this. Friend was completely horrified as well is going to speak to the head 2mrw the mum in Q was a former classroom assistant at the school b4 she had her baby and my friends ds said she was the only one in class and the teacher was not there when they where trying the foods . I am sure this has to be wrong on so many levels i'm trying to look at it from another point of view but all i feel is anger that she did this can anyone else share their feelings on this....

Rowlers, I misunderstood your post - I thought you were saying there was no point showing breastfeeding as normal to 7yos, not no point spoonfeeding them bmilk!

I didn't liken breast milk to piss. That's the gloss you choose to put on it, hunker.

I said that if it was OK to offer breast milk to primary school children, then it may as well be OK to offer them piss.

If you weren't such an evangelist on the subject, you would easily see the difference.

But you are an evangelist on the subject, and that's the problem.

asking other adults if they want to taste your breastmilk is also rather weird but they are at least old enough to consent

kids have parents with views and i am sure more than a few would object for one reason or another cultural issues or just plain i dont like the idea

well as the reaction to this thread clearly demonstrates, the woman was misguided to think that parents would be ok about it.
and the uproar caused by mad angry parents will no doubt convince quite a few of those children that bm is dirty, diseased, nasty, freaky stuff.
so its kind of backfired, sadly.

which is a real shame if you ask me.

"Should I perhaps make them drink it? Much like breast milk, piss is sterile, after all."

"Much like breastmilk" - no, I must be the only person who thought you were likening breastmilk to piss from what you posted, Desi.

Thanks for the insults though. Charmed, I'm sure.

"I didn't liken breast milk to piss. That's the gloss you choose to put on it, hunker.

I said that if it was OK to offer breast milk to primary school children, then it may as well be OK to offer them piss."

isnt that an oxymoron?

Some sorta moron, Boyz

if it is what happened then it sounds like a throughly mismanaged event

i thought you had to do a risk assessment for everything these days

My problem with it isn't that it came out of her breast - it could have come out of a tap in her ELBOW for all I care - my problem is it doesn't come with the ingredients on the packet. And ok it might be fantastic high quality breast milk. But it might also be fantastic high quality breast milk with a touch of hepatitis or a dusting of alcohol or whatever - the point is you don't know! Fantastic to normalise breast feeding. Wrong way to do it imvho.

You could actually do science lesson with piss. On Gill McKeith's TV prog.
You can learn alot from looking, smelling from distance and testing (not tasting...retch) piss. Just wouldn't be do-able though.

but it isnt really normalising it

because it isnt normal to give unknown schoolchildren teaspoons of breast milk

i have waited years to be able to slip oxymoron into a conversation. (prepares for pedant correction lol)

theres no ingredients on formula either shell, but you wouldnt be so worried about that, would you?

Exactly!! Not normal at all and there are far better (and safer,less controversial) ways to get the message accross.

Can I just ask where I said it was OK to do this, if that's what Desi's reading into my posts, btw?

[evangelical] [ffs]

i suppose her intention was to normalise the consumption of it. to show that it tastes sweet? is good for you? i dunno... I didnt spoon the bloody stuff out...

Yes hunker the reason you misunderstood is because I didn't explain myself very clearly!!!
What I was trying to say was that I didn't think that a one-off visit from old classroom assistant spoonfeeding random children her own breastmilk was going to influence them in a positive way.
Not that discussing the whole thing with 7 year olds was pointless.
Surely 7 year olds seeing their mums and their mum's friends and their old classroom assstant etc etc breastfeeding would have a positive influence, but not giving it on a spoon.
Maybe I'm wrong but if this is what happened, I could well imagine the children all thought it was a bit weird which surely is the opposite of her intentions?

There is actually a full list of ingedients on all formula milks-'tis a legal requirement and is actually far better governed than breastmilk.

It's hardly going to be a great advert for bf'ing, anyway. I've tasted my own bm & it's not a patch on frootshoots...

I just think - IF the 7 year old has facts straight, & I wouldn't count on that - it's only bloody milk. If you once start thinking about where cows' milk, eggs, most meat products have come from, you could gross yourself out quite comprehensively.

If human milk is so very special/disgusting (& some of the attitudes here seem to be 2 sides of the same unease, iyswim) then it raises some questions about the way we use the milk of other mammals.

Ah! You just don't like me, hunker, and it colours your judgement, for sure.

I think (I hope) we're all agreed that taking your personal breastmilk to school for other children to imbibe is weird.

That's my point, beyond reiterating that if you think it's OK, then would it be OK for me to take in a sample of my piss for them to drink? Or my shit, for that matter ....?

It isn't an inditement on breastfeeding, much as you would like to think that it is. It is an inditement on weird people, wrapped up on their own little worlds, who seem to think that that sort of behaviour is appropriate.

It isn't.

at no point has hunker said that IF this really happened it was a good idea. at all.

I cant see whats so bad about it...

it seems as though there would be lots of scope for getting the wrong end of the stick here

in fact any such talk minus a context fromn their teacher i think is odd

lol at governing breastmilk (not taking piss, it just struck me funny! have visions of a bloke in a suit with a clipboard coming round once a week to take samples and monitor quality hehehe)

I have a seven year old and she is prone to....ahem....exaggeration about events in school. I think your friend should check her facts first.

I would suspect that it was in fact formula and tins/jars/packet baby food. I find it a bit implausible that a classroom assistant would express milk and take it into school for the children to taste.