I have tasted my own breast milk. It was like sugar water.
Once I was visiting my sister, we both had just had kids about two weeks apart. I decided to go out for the evening and left a bottle of breast milk for my husband to feed the baby in case he woke up. Of couse he woke up and would not take the bottle. In desperation my husband woke my sister up and ask if she’d nurse the baby to get him quiet. She was hesitant at first but she said he latched on and never uttered another cry. I know she is going to tease the hell out of him when he gets older!
I dunno about you ladies and what you are eating to produce sweet tasting breast milk, or maybe I’m just a sour puss, but lemme put it this way (according to Mr. Ujest) Do you mind if I spit it out?
My pregnant wife just started leaking the pre-birth milk (forgot the special name for it). I’m tempted to go for a taste sometime, but my wife will probably think I’m even weirder that she does now.
Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.
I’ve never tasted breast milk myself, but based on what I’m reading here, I probably wouldn’t like it at all. I’ve switched to lactose free milk, and one time the store I went to didn’t have any so I bought some regular 2% stuff. I almost puked it up it was so sweet. And if breast milk is sweeter than that, I definitely will not be drinking any.
I have a cousin who had a baby at the same time as her best friend. They used to nurse each other’s babies from time to time. But it’s not like they were strangers, and they did it with each other’s consent.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Shayna, you’ve found that lactose free milk isn’t as sweet as regular 2%? The stuff we can get here (called Lactaid, I belive) is a bit sweeter than 2%.
I’m very curious about what breast milk tastes like. I don’t think I’ll be having any babies anytime soon, and I don’t know any pregnant women. Ah well.
Oh, now I remember. It wasn’t a question. It was clearing up some stuff about lactose-free milk.
There are two kinds of lactose-free milk, the kind that doesn’t have any lactose in it, and the kind with lactase added. Why would you call it lactose-free if it has lactose in it? you ask. I don’t know. The point is, the enzyme allows us lactose-intolerant folk to digest and taste more of the sugar, so the stuff should be a little sweeter than normal.
The lactose-free lactose-free milk should be less sweet. Haven’t tried it though.
Boris B: It’s called colostrum. While it’s not quite the same as breast milk, it is packed with antibodies & stuff that is quite good for the baby. There’s also not a huge amount of it, but that’s good too, because newborns don’t eat huge amounts. By the time the actual milk comes in, the baby is ready to eat more. Nifty how that all works out, isn’t it?
I myself did not breast feed. Tried it for a day with my daughter (she’s almost 3 now), but I just didn’t like it. I didn’t have any trouble with engorgement, though, and I didn’t take any drugs to dry up the milk, either. I wore a bra 24-7 for a couple of weeks, and slept on my stomach (something that felt very, very good after not being able to for several months). That did the trick. I think I was very lucky. I hear that engorgement can really, really hurt. :eek:
“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead
The answer to that question is that there is no lactose in milk once it’s treated with lactase. Here’s why…
Lactose is a disaccharide, meaning it’s made up of 2 sugar molecules (in this case, glucose and galactose). The reason that some people are intolerant to lactose is that their bodies lack the enzyme, lactase, that breaks down those disaccharides into the more easily digestible (smaller sugar molecule) monosaccharides. Milk manufacturers have found a way to add that missing enzyme right into the milk, breaking lactose up into the monosaccharides, glucose and galactose, before it even enters your system, thereby eliminating the need for your body to do it itself. Therefore there really is no longer any lactose in lactase treated milk.
However, this is now making me scratch my head in puzzlement over why I find Lactaid® to be considerably less sweet than regular 2% milk. I grew up on 2% milk, always hated 1% (thought it was like drinking white water), and never thought I’d be able to drink anything else. I was surprised when I first tried Lactaid® and liked it (believing at the time that it tasted just like the 2% milk I’d been drinking for 30-some years). Then when I went back to the 2% that one time, I expected that it would still taste the same to me, but it tasted like I was drinking syrup, that’s how sweet it seemed (and I’m drinking 2% Lactaid®). I just assumed, then, that lactose was a sweeter sugar than the other sugars combined. Is that so?
I wonder if disaccharides are sweeter because they’re larger molecules, and monosaccharides are less sweet because they’re smaller. Hmmmm. Perhaps this is a question better suited to GQ. To keep it topic relevant, does anyone know if there is more lactose in human breast milk than in cows milk, and that’s why it’s sweeter (to those who’ve tried it and say that it is)?
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Well, thanks for clearing me up on the lactose-free milk stuff. Looks like I had it all wrong. Anyway, I’m wondering now why I think lactose-free is sweeter and you think it’s less sweet.
My theory is, that our tastes are just tastes. Like, my tongue is more sensitive to monosaccharides and yours is more sensitive to polysaccharides. Is that possible?
I always thought it was because I could not taste the lactose without the lactase, as well as not being able to digest it, but it sounds like that might not be the case…
On an episode of Designing Women, One of the women was had “expressed” some milk and put it in the 'fridge. Delta Burke’s character (without knowing it was human milk) put some in her coffee. When she found out it was human milk she spit it out. It just got me wondering, why would the milk from a fellow human be disgusting, but the milk from a cow be OK.
Boris B and Zulu, I posed the “is lactose sweeter or not as sweet” question on the GQ board. Hopefully the brilliant Teeming Millions will be able to solve this little mystery for us.
Bricker, please pardon the temporary hijacking (and it’s great to see you over here at MPSIMS more often!).
I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread…
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
I would like to taste it, for sure. Maybe I’ll get the chance someday when my girlfriend can be convinced that kids are actually more than nasty things that walk slowly in front of you in shopping malls
I have a comment though. I do not want to condemn anyone, nor am I trying to make a moral judgement. Everybody can do whatever they want, and there is nothing I can or will do.
Having said that: am I the only one who is really disturbed by the thought of using breast milk for sexual games, such as the described squirting ?
I am far from being a prude and have absolutely no experience in the breast milk area, but for some reason, the thought alone sickens me… it sounds like messing with something sacred. Can anyone understand this ?
