This is just a curiousity thing.
I often look at DS feeding, or wipe his chin when he's done, and wonder what it tastes like. He obviously likes it.
I don't know. I'm overtired today.
Have you tasted your own BM?
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This is just a curiousity thing.
I often look at DS feeding, or wipe his chin when he's done, and wonder what it tastes like. He obviously likes it.
I don't know. I'm overtired today.
Have you tasted your own BM?
Yep by accident ;)
I was giving EBM to DS. Wanted to check the temp and then did the whole squirt on my hand and test on my lip. I realised what I had done and was weirded out for about 5 seconds. Then was like meh. It's a lot sweeter than I expected. But let me tell you formula tastes disgusting in comparison. Blurgh. (Not having a go at FF just for the record).
Totally. So has DH, many a time :lol: It's so sweet and smooth. Tasted colostrum too; which is quite salty. I don't see the harm :)
Yes. I have been squirted by myself with all 3 kids :rofl: strong let down.
Kinda sweet tasting-not bad. better then formula!
I have, can't say I liked the taste or would want more then a drop of it at a time!
not lately! lol But yes. It's not really my cup of tea!:lol:
Yep and it tastes better fresh then after its been in the fridge or after its been frozen.
Another question, I wonder if you were lost in the desert and drank your own milk would that be enough to sustain you? Lol oh the random things I think of.
I have too. Just a few drops to see what it was like. It was quite sweet. I can totally get why my DD would prefer it to formula or cows milk even taking away the nice warm soft mummy factor!
Im always so grossed out by the thought. No idea why but i do have s weak stomach for any bodily fluids even pashing grosses me out lol.
Dd also refuses anything but fresh breast milk
nup.
my toddler breastfeeds, but is repulsed by breastmilk if it is in a cup, even if it has just been expressed. would love her to be able to explain why.
Yep I tasted a drop out of curiosity, it's so sweet!
i've tasted it but kinda had a "yeah, whatever" attitude towards it. i have friends that are repulsed by the whole concept - i just can't see the point in having such a strong reaction to it to be honest lol
Accidentally when one of them threw it back up as they were feeding. Ew. I was too freaked out to pay attention to the taste, but I did taste the hot milo I'd had that morning... No wonder DD won't accept plain milk/water. She's tasted too many different flavours of BM to go to nothing :lol:
Nicer than formula but not as nice as a Maccas chocolate shake ;)
Yep, it's sweet, I also tasted some after defrosting EBM to see how different it tasted to fresh.
Not grossed out at all - its a food source!!!
I've smelt it, all those weeks of expressing when DD was in hospital. It had an almost musty smell to it.
Glad I'm not the only one who has though of tasting it. :)
yea i tried a bit out of curiosity. it is really sweet (well mine is , id say different peopke tastes different)
I have but I couldnt tell you what it tastes like as I cant get more than a drop to my mouth without expressing and Im just not that interested. Lol
Yeah I tasted a drop to see what it was like, and I made DH too because it grossed him out, LOL. It's sweet.
Yeah, by accident. My DH also has. In fact once when we didn't have cow milk in the fridge I offered to put some EBM in his coffee for him......
I have heard of a couple of families that use EBM for everything instead for store bought milk.
When I realised most of my frozen stash was going to expire soon we used it in a lot of baking and cooking :lol: May as well, right? I'm planning on pumping for DD to have on her cereal and in a cup if she wants it.
Yep. It's wierd cause the breast milk for my first baby was so so so sweet and the breast milk for my second baby was not as sweet and had a very slight salty taste. I didn't think it would taste different as its my body both times.
Yep, both DH and I did out of curiosity.
I have tasted mine.. Yuk..
Yeah, I didn't find it terribley sweet, just... thin and milky. Different. But not sweet. Might have been my diet though - I'm more of a savory gal, and ate a lot of savory when breastfeeding rather than sweets or anything like that. Maybe I should do some experiments when I'm breastfeeding and see if spicy foods or sweet foods make it different? lol
ETA: My partner had it in coffee and on cereal once because I borrowed milk from the neighbours and put it in baby bottles (all I could think of at the time haha) so I had breastmilk and cows milk in the fridge in baby bottles. Didn't think to label them because my BM always separated so I just chucked them on opposite sides of the fridge. HILARIOUS! But she didn't seem to care. Said it didn't really taste like anything.
A friend of mine was catching a plane one morning while she was away and had expressed milk in the fridge. Rather than throw it away she made a hot chocolate out of it hehe. I don't see it as a big deal. We drink milk from cows.
Yes. I wouldn't feed my child anything I wouldn't eat myself. It was too warm and sweet for me - I prefer milk the way nature intended, from a cow and stored in the fridge!
DH probably has, but really did freak out about me making milk in the first few months and would never admit it if he has.
Tastes a bit like mares milk.....
... ?
mares milk. Bet that's an interesting story. *waits*
Yep, a few drops. Neither here nor there... didn't gross me out, didn't want more! Both of my big kids and my nieces (13 and 14) asked to taste it also. They have each had a spoonful and all had the same reaction as me - except for DD1 (9) who loved it and asked for some every time I had my boobs out for DD2!! In the end I just had to tell her that BM was for the baby. I had supply issues, couldn't afford to feed both DD's!
Yep, I have, and so has DF. Only a drop or so, it didn't taste bad or anything.
Probably as a once off, but if you had no water and food to maintain a supply then your supply will dry up pretty quick.:
I have tasted mine very much on purpose. It seems odd to me NOT to know what my own milk tastes like. I was surprised it was so sweet and with a thinnish consistency.
Yep, had a tiny sip of EBM early on with DD1 and have randomly cleaned up spillages, lol, without thinking since with both girls. My BM is sweet too and not something I'd enjoy but I can see why a little baby would love it.
My frozen EBM gets that whacky smell that freezing often does to EBM so there is no way I could sample that, it's quite off putting but DD couldn't care less. Funny stuff, isn't it :D
yep, I tasted it, I thought it tasted like UHT milk, but a bit sweeter. I had all these ideas about using it for everything, making icecream, cheese etc...but nah, couldn't even be bothered expressing so DS would have a bottle LOL :)
DP tasted it too, at first he thought the idea of it as so gross, but I think he actually developed a taste for it :P
Yep, much sweeter than I expected
I made a coffee with mine when I had run out of milk one morning. Hey I was desperate and I didn't need sugar lol DH has had some as well :)
Yes, once when I had mastisis in one breast I was hand-expressing to relieve pressure and got some milk on my finger and licked it off before thinking. It tasted very salty so I tasted the milk from the healthy boob and it was very sweet.
So then I used it as a test to see if I had mastitis or not, so I could get onto it quickly. It was very salty. I was amazed my baby would still drink it.
Also tasted mine, warm and sweet. Not my thing but occasionally did have it in my coffee.
Wow, that is really interesting Kuraiza