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A quick trip over to lil sugar revealed something I haven't read about in the news or seen on television. A contestant on America's Top Model, run by former model Tyra Banks, has admitted to drinking her own breast milk.
Twenty-four year-old Claire said she'd tasted her own breast milk, and that it tasted like soy milk. I've always heard--mind you, not read, anywhere--that breast milk tastes like melon juice, cantaloupe perhaps. I was never game enough to prove that rumor true (or false, which appears to be the case with contestant Claire).
In the excerpt from the show, Claire discusses pumping while away--like so many of us do--to bring breast milk back to her child for later. Not sure where the tasting comes into play--it's definitely not a requirement!--but there you have it.
For those of you who've never tasted soy milk, apparently it tastes like booby juice.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:01AM
Jillian said...My milk tastes nothing like soy milk. I'm sure it varies by individual, depending on what you eat.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:10AM
Jenna said...While I was super excited to see a mother and a breastfeeding one at that on ANTM (there have been a few in past cycles), I giggled at the soy milk comparison. We're not tasting like soy over here. Just kind of sugary milk, I suppose.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:28AM
Anji said...Mine tasted like very watery, sweetened milk.
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2-24-2008 @ 6:45PM
ame s said...Mine was very sweet, also. I've never tasted soy milk. I don't plan to because I don't really like milk anyway.
2-24-2008 @ 10:31AM
Nicola said...I would find it rather odd for a nursing woman NOT to have tried her own milk. Wouldn't you be curious? I certainly was. Its what my baby ate exclusively and I wondered what it tasted like. Definitely. Very sweet milk, that's exactly how I'd describe it as well. My husband tasted it too. I never thought anything of it. We drink milk from an unknown cow's teets, but are squeamish about trying our own? Nah, not us.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:34AM
Jen said...Mine tasted like a melted milkshake.
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2-24-2008 @ 12:30PM
Michelle said...My kids drink 8th Continent Soy milk, which is very sweet. So, from several of your descriptions, it sounds like your breast milk DID taste like soy milk.
I never tasted mine. I made little enough of that liquid gold as it was, I wasn't wasting any of it on a taste-test.
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2-24-2008 @ 6:38PM
Brandi said...I second the fact that I create just enough to satisfy my infant. I mean after having a breast reduction and still able to produce was definitely suprising, so pumping was NEVER in my book :( Never able to pump any to even get a taste test. Sooo with that said, I've never tasted :( Hubby never had either.
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2-24-2008 @ 7:31PM
Eva said...I'm sure she doesn't just knock it back. She probably got some on her hand while pumping or something and tasted it. That's what I did. Mine tasted like goat's milk.
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2-25-2008 @ 10:37AM
Marylena said...I just had to taste it. Before I had children, I saw that infamous episode of "Friends" where the flavor was compared to cantelope juice. When I was able to produce my own milk, I just had to taste it to see if they were right. All in the name of science!
One time, I found myself in the position of having to "pump and dump". I had to leave my child with a sitter. It was a hot day and there was no refrigeration available. Before I dumped all that "liquid gold" down the drain, I took a sip.
It tasted like sweetened, watery milk. Oh, and it was warm, not refrigerated like I'm used to.
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