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A new London ice cream parlour is offering breast milk ice cream alongside the more traditional flavors like raspberry ripple and mint chocolate chip.

The breast milk ice cream -- named Baby Gaga -- is on sale at the Icecreamists parlour in Covent Garden.

So where does the milk come from? Well, Victoria Hiley, 35, from Leeds, has already donated a total of 30 fluid ounces of breast milk. And a number of ladies answered an advert for potential suppliers on the Mumsnet forum.

"I saw the advert offering to pay women to donate breast milk on a forum and it made me laugh," said mother of one Victoria.

"There were so many comments and people were having a debate on whether it could be genuine. "So I thought I'd find out."

Since then another 14 women have volunteered to become donors to The Icecreamists parlour in London's West End. Each donor receives £15 (or about $24) for every 10 ounces of milk extracted by breast pumps.

And to maintain the highest standards, health checks for the lactating women are exactly the same used by the NHS to screen blood donors.

"It wasn't intrusive at all to donate -- just a simple blood test," said Victoria. "What could be more natural than fresh, free-range motherʼs milk in an ice cream?

"And for me itʼs a recession beater too -- whatʼs the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash! Itʼs a bit of fun isnʼt it?"

In her day job, Victoria works with women who have problems breast-feeding their babies.
She believes that if adults realise how tasty breast milk actually is, new mothers will be more keen to continue breast-feeding their babies. She insists breast milk is much more easily digestible than the more traditional cows' milk ice cream.

Icecreamists' founder, Matt O'Connor, 44, from Hampshire, is confident he's got a scoop on his hands, even if the breast milk ice cream is priced at a cool £14.

We have to say though that initial testers weren't so keen to suck it and see!

He tested a range of radical ice creams at Selfridges in London last year and they proved so popular he decided to launch a new ice cream parlour business.

So might not Baby Gaga make some ice creams lovers want to, well, gag?

Matt, resplendent in a pink, purple and white jacket, insists not. "The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich" says Matt. "No-one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years.

"We've came up with a method of infusing ice-cream with breast milk. We wanted to completely reinvent it.

"And by using breast milk we've definitely given it a 100 percent makeover. Itʼs just one of a dozen radical new flavours weʼve invented. We want to change the way people think about ice cream."

The recipe blends breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, which is then freshly churned into ice cream.

The good-for-you feel doesn't extend to Gaga-style costumed waitresses complete with breast cone costumes, who serve the breast milk ice cream in a martini glass with liquid nitrogen poured into the glass through a syringe.

"If it's good enough for our children it's good enough for the rest of us," said Matt. "Some people will hear about it and go, yuck!"

"But actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural. I had a Baby Gaga just this morning and I feel great."

More information can be found at www.theicecreamists.com.

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]]>breast milk ice creamBreastMilkIceCreamthe editors at ParentDish UKFri, 25 Feb 2011 12:00:00 ESTBritish Prime Minister's Kids Hijack Their Mom's Twitter Pagehttp://www.parentdish.com/2009/12/11/british-prime-ministers-kids-hijack-their-moms-twitter-page/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/12/11/british-prime-ministers-kids-hijack-their-moms-twitter-page/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/12/11/british-prime-ministers-kids-hijack-their-moms-twitter-page/#commentsFiled under:

Sarah Brown, wife of Britain's Prime Minister speaking prior in Brighton, England, on Sept. 29, 2009. Credit: Alastair Grant, AP



The Prime Minister's wife has discovered the hazards of small children and laptops.

Sarah Brown "tweeted" a random set of letters recently, confusing her 987,460 followers.

There was speculation her account had been hacked, or that a cat had sat on the keyboard.

But apparently one of her young sons had got at her laptop -- Mrs Brown later explained she had been the victim of "junior tweet interference."

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]]>great britainGreatBritainPrime Minister Gordon BrownPrimeMinisterGordonBrownSarah BrownSarahBrowntwitterthe editors at ParentDish UKFri, 11 Dec 2009 09:00:00 ESTJude Law's New Baby Makes Her First Appearancehttp://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/jude-laws-new-baby/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/jude-laws-new-baby/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/jude-laws-new-baby/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jude Law's baby daughter Sophia has had her first taste of what her life will be like - she nabbed the front cover of a magazine at the tender age of one month.

Sophia's mother, model Samantha Burke, reckons the baby looks like her Hollywood star father.

She says the baby has Jude's "pout."

The 25-year-old model got pregnant during a "fling" with Jude after they met at a nightclub.

Samantha has also been telling Hello! magazine about their first encounter.

She said: "I instantly knew who he was, but he seemed really funny - he was cracking jokes with people and he included me in that. The next thing I knew I was on the pavement outside, being twirled around - it was a lot of fun. Following that initial meeting, Jude and I went out several times. He was a lot of fun to be around, always making me laugh."

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]]>actorbabydaughterhellohollywoodjude lawJudeLawpregnantsamantha burkeSamanthaBurkesophiathe editors at ParentDish UKTue, 27 Oct 2009 12:47:00 ESTPollution Could Increase Risk of Miscarriage, New Study Showshttp://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/pollution-could-increase-risk-of-miscarriage-new-study/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/pollution-could-increase-risk-of-miscarriage-new-study/http://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/27/pollution-could-increase-risk-of-miscarriage-new-study/#commentsFiled under: ,

There could be a link between high levels of pollution and miscarriage, according to new research.

Experts found that levels of pollution just above the "safe" amount could increase the risk of miscarriage.

The study was carried out by the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and looked at the effect of diesel exhaust particles on embryos in mice.

Apparently diesel disrupted the development of cells, which can trigger a miscarriage.

Scientists say women should avoid getting pregnant when there are high levels of pollution in the air.

We're not sure that's terribly helpful advice though - how are we supposed to know? Should we be testing pollution levels before we get it on? Should we only be trying to get pregnant on mini-breaks in the countryside?

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]]>air pollutionAirPollutionbabybrazilcellsdieselembryoembryoseuropean commissionEuropeanCommissionfertilityivfmiscarriagepennsylvaniapollutionpregnancypregnantsao pauloSaoPaulouniversitythe editors at ParentDish UKTue, 27 Oct 2009 06:12:00 EST