On the one hand I applaud the ingenuity of the women donors making the most of their assets, but on the other hand one has to wonder what measures are taken to ensure the quality of the product? Breast milk is affected by what the mother ingests, is it not (I know my babies slept better on occasions where I'd indulged in a glass of wine some time before feeding time :rolleyes:)
Will this be a plus for breast-feeding in public or a negative?
Where did you hear/read about this? - I have never heard about it. I fed my daughter for 22 1/2 months which felt perfectly natural - but the thought of donating it for ice cream for someone else? - Initial reaction -weird. Don't think this actually has anything to do with breastfeeding - totally different.
Yvonne
Here's one of the links:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110225/tod-london-cooing-over-breast-milk-ice-c-6058bda.html
Baby GaGa! 😀
Initial reaction is ‘noooo, thank you’.
I still wouldn’t even after pondering for a while, it’s okay from a cow but not a woman!
Guess it’s down to conditioning but it doesn't seem right to me.
£14.00-who in their right mind would pay that for ice cream!!! Also-I didn't need to taste breast milk to know it was good for my daughter - I take it these people have tried dog food so know it's really yummy for Rover!
Again-I don't think this has anything to do with breastfeeding & if I hadn't been convinced I wouldn 't have had the luxury of £14 a shot to try it out.
Breast milk is for babies/toddlers-the end (my opinion)
I used to express milk and put it in the freezer and once a week take a shipment to the local maternity hospital for the prem babies. I gather this is not possible any more due to 'contamination' issues (stuff and nonsense!).
Conditioning has a lot to do with it. If it were'nt for the fact that it tastes so wonderful, I would possibly baulk at drinking cows milk, knowing where it comes from, how it's extracted, where it is pasturised, transported, bottled etc etc etc....
As for Baby Gaga going 'national' - I wonder if there will be milking stations at every supermarket - hook up and read a magazine, then shop and collect your product at the checkout - puts a whole different picture in my head of the 'take a number' at the cheese counter!!!!!.
If it is made into icecream it would of necessity have sugar added to it and probably extra fat or similar for it to freeze to the right consistency, negating any benefit it might have for children. An idiot idea as far as I can see.
As for organic etc - that depends on the mother eating only organic foods (like the animals have to), and be pharmaceutical- and additive-free for that claim! I'd also dispute the free-range label unless they grow all their own meat and vegetables - or is it that they are free to eat a range of foods that they come across, however poor in quality??
Marketing nonsense :rolleyes:
I'm not sure the product is aimed at children and I think the free-range bit may refer to the donors generally, in that they are free to shop and go to the gym - no doubt attending mother and baby classes, not kept in pens! Perhaps they are the bunch that clog up the aisles in the John Lewis restaurant with their four wheel drive buggies!!!!
If they are giving the milk for the ice cream what does the baby have, cowsgate?
I love the milking station idea...just imagine! milking parlour!
Whatever are they going to do next!!
just heard on the news they have withdrawn this ice cream from sale to do tests