Honesty pls - have any of you tried your own breast milk?

[Anonymous]

Looks like I am the only one so far that has not tasted it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like I am the only one so far that has not tasted it.

Join the club. Never tasted it, never wanted to. Actually, makes me want to puke just thinking about tasting it (but I am pregnant right now, so many things make me want to puke).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like I am the only one so far that has not tasted it.

Join the club. Never tasted it, never wanted to. Actually, makes me want to puke just thinking about tasting it (but I am pregnant right now, so many things make me want to puke).

??

You feed it to your baby, for heaven's sake. Why would that make you want to puke?

[Anonymous]

Of course I've tasted my milk.

I think I have excess lipase, as milk that previously frozen or over a couple days in the fridge smells different. Not sour, I've smelled that as well. My baby, through, drank it fine so I thankfully didn't have to throw my stash out.

[Anonymous]

Both my husband and I have. As well as our kids...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, and I don't care for it. I have had to taste it a lot as I was an exclusive pumper and my milk had excess lipase. Now that's some gross stuff!

Lipase is an enzyme helping with the digestion of fats... I never thought it would have a taste... How did you find out that you had too much of it???

Not the PP but it makes the milk smell bad, I had excess in mine too. Found out when I started using some of my freezer stash and it smelled bad, it tasted off too. But it is not bad it's just the extra lipase. I then had to scald the milk prior to freezing to stop ordain happening. Talk about a pain in the ass! I always try to tell people now if you are stock piling milk make sure you thaw some out every once in a while to make sure it still smells good. The baby can still drink it but some won't because it tastes different. I was hystericl when I first figured it out thinking I was going to have to throw out my whole freezer stash.

This is what happens to mine, and then DC won't drink. PLEASE explain to me what you did and if it made the milk then taste and smell different after freezing. Would love to do this, but don't know how.

[Anonymous]

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This is what happens to mine, and then DC won't drink. PLEASE explain to me what you did and if it made the milk then taste and smell different after freezing. Would love to do this, but don't know how.

You just need to scald the milk so it gets up to about 140 degrees for I think about 5 seconds? I don't remember exactly; google, you'll be able to find info on it. The way I would do it is by just putting it in a bottle warmer and add extra water; then I would put a meat thermometer in the bottle of milk so I could monitor the temperature.

[Anonymous]

I remember a couple of times when I pumped that my milk would have a soapy smell/taste (not right away, but after it had been in the fridge). Anybody else experience this?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I tasted a few drops. It didn't taste like much of anything. Vaguely sweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember a couple of times when I pumped that my milk would have a soapy smell/taste (not right away, but after it had been in the fridge). Anybody else experience this?

I'm the original lipase-y poster and sounds like you also have this issue. Mine smells and tastes soapy. Some people say theirs tastes metallic.

As another poster said, you can scald your milk before you freeze it. However, if you work, this isn't practical for a lot of people. I wasn't able to scald so I just kept offering it to my baby and eventually he drank it with no problem.