Strollerderby

1) Milk is way too precious to make soap out of. Pumped milk is sweet freedom in a bottle.

2) Gross.

I had plenty to spare, both times, and I did a lot of reading about its uses.  Soap, acne cleanser, wart healer, nose spray, eye drops...the only one I ever tried was nose/eye cleanser when the girls were sick.  If I were the soap making kind of gal, I'd try this... but I'm so not.

Ditto to what McGlory sez...  1 cup of milk equals freedom not some freaking bar of soap.  (Maybe for x-mas gift giving to all those whow were less than supportive maybe.   Hmmmm........)  In my case, it took about 3 or 4 pumping sessions to get all that and then would be better used for a date night.  What the hell is wrong with these people?  Do they not want to ever go out?

ok that picture is just disturbing.  But it does sum up how I felt when I was breastfeeding and having to pump and freeze so I could have a life.

Rah! Rah! I had plenty too! Could squirt from across the room without trying! Used it for nasal levage, red eyes, baby acne and ear issues (if he had any, but I recommended it to others!).

But I prefer liquid cleansers... also, I must say that the fragrance of heated breast milk was entirely unappealing so, no thanks on the breast milk soap-- I was usually showering to get the sour milk smell off me!!

Karen, where the hell do you get your pictures from?

If you have extra breast milk, perhaps you might consider donating it to a milk bank, so that those who aren't so lucky can benefit.

"If you have extra breast milk, perhaps you might consider donating it to a milk bank, so that those who aren't so lucky can benefit."

No kidding.  If I had an extra 16 CUPS of the stuff lying around the last thing that would leap to mind would be "Gee, why don't I make cottage cheese?"

LogicalMama:  my rule is that if the photo makes me pee laughing, I can use it.

Yeah, 16 CUPS extra milk??  I was lucky to pump DROPS.

Thanks for the laugh and pee too! I have to tell you between this one and the woman birthing the grown man the other day, you are at the top of your game!

That sour smell is bacteria happily growing in the milk.  That was my chief complaint about breastmilk.  It soured fast, grew fungus on everything if not cleaned immediately and was just messy all around.  I felt like a cow the whole time too.  I used to get all grossed out when my friends woudl nurse their kid then tuck their spit and milk(bacteria x 1 million) covered boobs back in their bra without washing them first!  Then half an hour later shove that nasty thing in the poor kids mouth.  Ugh!  It is like giving a baby a drity milk bottle that has been sitting out for an hour that another kid used earlier.

Breast milk can sit out for over a day before it even starts growing bacteria.

I love the link. My toddler is allergic to cow's milk, goat's milk, and soy milk so this is great for us.  It always amazes me how humans find other humans milk gross but we freely drink cow's milk which is loaded with blood and puss not to mention it's a whole different animal.