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Would You Feed Your Child Breast Milk That's Not Yours?
Doctors always tell you that breast milk is best, but is someone else's breast milk just as good? My pal recently told me that she just gave a friend, who has a younger baby, all her frozen breast milk, since it was going to go bad before her son could consume it all. Known as liquid gold in some circles, breast milk is a valuable commodity to a nursing mama and could be even more valuable to a mother who is lacking in that department.
What Do You Know About Breastmilk Storage?
Breastmilk is known to some as "white blood," because it's incredibly precious to nursing mamas who work hard to keep it pumping. Ask any breastfeeding lady and she'll tell you that nothing is worse than having to toss good milk that's gone bad. La Leche League International has put out guidelines for keeping your milk fresh, but how well do you know them?
Odd or Endearing: Ailing Father Drink's Daughter's Breast Milk?
Georgia Browne's breast milk benefits both her son and her father. While young Monty is the obvious recipient, the new mother also offered the liquid gold to her dad Tim who has terminal cancer after she found research suggesting that mother's milk helps kill cancer cells. She said:
‘It feels like I’m doing the most natural thing for the people I love.
Yummy Links: From Breast Milk Cupcakes to Food Discounts
- Would you eat a cupcake made with breast milk?— Serious Eats
- Five simple tips for planning the perfect party. — Simply Stated
- Gordon Ramsay cooks a "credit crunch" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. — Eat Me Daily
- The Cupcake Kit provides everything you need to make delicious pretty cupcakes.
Ben & Jerry's Breast Milk Ice Cream?
When I read the post on GiggleSugar about the obscure Craigslist ad requesting people to suggest flavors for their homemade breast milk ice cream, I thought it was a joke. Apparently not. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is also hopping on the breast milk ice cream boat and are now urging Ben & Jerry's to make the switch from cow's milk to breast milk.
Grieving Mother Donates 100 Gallons of Breastmilk
The mother of twins turned the loss of one of her beloved babes into an opportunity to help other children struggling to live. Born three and a half months premature, Leo and Kelley Durant's son, Cameron and daughter, Ressa, fought to survive. Unfortunately, the little girl died of an infection at just three weeks old.
Milkscreen: Kid Friendly or Are You Kidding?
Could the dilemma over whether to pump and dump be over?
The folks that brought us the Night Knight infant movement monitor and Walking Wings to help us get our tots on their feet, have introduced Milkscreen ($10 for 8 strips), a breast milk alcohol detection kit, which allows a nursing mother to determine the volume of alcohol in her breast milk.
The test requires the mother to express her milk onto the test strip, similar to those pH strips you used in high school chemistry class, and two minutes later the strip changes colors if the alcohol content is above 0.02%.
STIs Explained: HIV and AIDS
Since today, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day, I thought I could dispel some myths and lay out the facts about HIV and AIDS. It is a serious issue so let's get down to business.
HIV - the human immunodeficiency virus - is a virus that kills your body’s "CD4 cells," (also called T-helper cells), that help your body fight off infection and disease.
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Milkscreen: Test Your Milk for Alcohol
You've carried the baby for nine months without a drop of alcohol. Now that your bundle of joy is out of your belly, you'd love nothing more than a glass (or two) of wine. Not so fast.
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