Baby Gaga Icecream?

I think nearly all of the members here have done it, but probably stopped at ~1 year old.

It’s really, really, bizarre, isn’t it? I mean, I’m the Queen of TMI, love to watch abscesses being drained, training to be a nurse, advocate of breastfeeding, crunchy granola hippie chick…
…and my immediate gut reaction to human milk ice cream is "ew’. :smiley:
I did taste my own milk, but really mostly by accident - y’know, a drop splashing on my fingers, fingers into mouth kind of thing. It’s really fairly yummy, and quite a bit like ice cream base to begin with, so Baby Gaga probably has less added sugar and flavoring than the cow’s milk stuff.

Ick factor aside, my *rational *concern is whether or not the milk itself is screened and pasteurized before use. There aren’t a lot of cow diseases we can catch from cow’s milk, but we sure can catch Hepatitis or HIV from human milk. I know the article says the women are checked out medically, but since you can be infected and infectious for months before you seroconvert and show up positive on an antibody test, I’d be very, very wary. I wouldn’t eat human milk ice cream from any woman I wouldn’t have sex with.

Kinda reminds me of this GQ thread we had a while back…

Coffee Flavored Breast Milk Cheese

Fine by me. From the tap is rather different than purchased as a frozen confection.

The key word is selling, in the sentence of mine that you quote. I’m not against people who donate milk for babies who need it, e.g. when a mother can’t nurse temporarily. Nor am I against egg/sperm donors, or organ donors. I signed my donor card, though I don’t know if there’ll be anything worth recuperating by the time my number is up.

As for hair donors… :smiley:

Sorry I missed that thread at the time. Those ice cream names are hilarious!

Maybe it’s because you aren’t just watching it, but actually eating it. I think it runs into our cannibalism mores.

My hubby tried it, errr, unintentionally, shall we say? He’s not given to knee-jerk reactions, but he thought it was gross.

You sold me at Coffee