Things you can't unknow

[Apple]

So, I just found out that there is something called "breast milk jewelry", like, pearls they make out of breast milk, along with other stuff (other jewelry, not other body fluids, but hey, really, who knows?  I mean, they turn dead people into diamonds now...)

So, would you have breast milk jewelry made?  Would you wear it?  Would you have a WTF reaction if you heard about someone buying it?  I'm kind of   about the whole thing myself.


www.mommymilkcreations.com/breast-milk-pendants/


www.breastfeedingplace.com/breast-milk-jewelry/



This one is called "chunky heart".  Chunky and breast milk.  Just. 

Since I can't unknow this, I have to share.

[msventoux]

Between the choices I would take breast milk jewelry over breast milk cheese or breast milk lattes. 

It reminds me of when my mother passed away, the funeral home had a catalog of the different urns and such.  One option was cremation jewelry so you could have earrings, rings or necklaces that have your loved ones ashes in it.  I think there was also an option to turn the cremains into crystals or diamonds or something.  Um, no thanks!

[dannylion]

Weird doesn't really seem to have any limits, so this does not surprise me.  I, too, wish I didn't know about it, but it doesn't surprise me.

[weltschmerz]

Jan 22, 2015 22:27:02 GMT -5 msventoux said:

Between the choices I would take breast milk jewelry over breast milk cheese or breast milk lattes. 

It reminds me of when my mother passed away, the funeral home had a catalog of the different urns and such.  One option was cremation jewelry so you could have earrings, rings or necklaces that have your loved ones ashes in it.  I think there was also an option to turn the cremains into crystals or diamonds or something.  Um, no thanks!

It's diamonds. My friend invented and patented the process. He's an obscenely wealthy man now.

[toomuchreality]

Wow. Who knew?! (not me!)
I've never heard of the diamond thing either. Going to google that next!

Weltschmerz- That is so cool, about your friend.


Personally, I remember breast feeding just fine. I don't need a piece of jewelry, or a DIY kit, made from my milk, to remind me of the process. But that's just me.

[weltschmerz]

Jan 22, 2015 23:11:45 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Wow. Who knew?! (not me!)
I've never heard of the diamond thing either. Going to google that next!

Weltschmerz- That is so cool, about your friend.


Personally, I remember breast feeding just fine. I don't need a piece of jewelry, or a DIY kit, made from my milk, to remind me of the process. But that's just me.

It's been around for a while.

We're carbon-based life forms. Diamonds are made from carbon.

[tloonya]

Jan 22, 2015 23:11:45 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Personally, I remember breast feeding just fine. I don't need a piece of jewelry, or a DIY kit, made from my milk, to remind me of the process. But that's just me.

Me too.

[mollyanna58]

Jan 22, 2015 22:27:02 GMT -5 msventoux said:

Between the choices I would take breast milk jewelry over breast milk cheese or breast milk lattes. 

It reminds me of when my mother passed away, the funeral home had a catalog of the different urns and such.  One option was cremation jewelry so you could have earrings, rings or necklaces that have your loved ones ashes in it.  I think there was also an option to turn the cremains into crystals or diamonds or something.  Um, no thanks!

I know someone who is fighting with his sister about their mother's cremains.  He wants some of them to put into a pendant and wear wherever he goes. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I knew about breast milk jewelry. I actually toyed with the idea for a few minutes.

I need to stop watching Strange Addictions on TLC. I could have happily lived my whole life without knowing what Pony Play or a female masker is.

[cael]

So I think breast milk jewelry, no - I would like to breastfeed my kids but... that's just weird to me. To each his own I guess

Regarding the cremation jewelry - I actually don't think that's as weird. Two of my best friends had a best friend of theirs pass away, and the girl's mother had necklaces made for my friends to remember her by. They didn't think it was weird at all. Also, I suggested looking into that to my SIL, because when we go to Greece we are bringing my FIL's remains with us to leave with his parents' remains (I don't know if it's a crypt, or cemetery, or what). Anyway, her and DH both seemed interested in having something made to keep with them since he will be all the way over there now.

[Sam_2.0]

Just to throw it out there, this jewelry is popular (for lack of a better word) amongst moms that have lost their babies either as infants that were still nursing, or far enough along in pregnancy that their milk came in anyway. Not that it's my thing personally, but it's no more weird to me than wearing ashes in a locket.

[MarleyKeezy78]

My cousin is always posting weird hippy shit on fb, I wish I could unknow/unsee the lady who puts yarn in her "ah hem" and then knits/crochets.    Grossss!!!!!!!

Also something called a lotus bag, ew, ew, EWWWWW!!!! There is no need to carry around your placenta for days still attached to your baby 

[Spellbound454]

I had enough of breasts and breastfeeding when my babies were little.

I don't want to here about it again.

My kids would probably be extremely embarrassed if I had one of those around my neck.


I like jewellery though.... ie sapphires, tanzanite, topaz, diamonds....Proper gem stones.............not the above sort of stuff.

[zibazinski]

My son is always teasing me about the cat using my ashes as kitty litter. I bet he'd be glad if I was a diamond instead!!

[imanangel]

I now can't unknow a lot of things in this thread.....thanks!

Oh and Drama, I will NOT Google....I will NOT Google.  Last time I googled something someone said on here, I was scarred for life.

[zibazinski]

I'll bet it was the two dicks thread. . How are you feeling btw?

[imanangel]

Jan 25, 2015 13:50:57 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I'll bet it was the two dicks thread. . How are you feeling btw?

Other than choking on my phlegm and drowning in my own snot, I am feeling fabulous!  

[zibazinski]

Sounds fabulous. .

[Deleted]

How do you feel about breast milk soap?

I have only used goats milk myself but the topic comes up frequently on a soap forum I read so I guess some people like it.

[MarleyKeezy78]

Be thankful that your cousin didn't offer to buy you a front row seat to watch the errrr, kniting/crochet session   Mine did 

[Malarky]

Well, this thread has been extremely educational.  

[MarleyKeezy78]

I feel weird about the breast milk thing, I bf my kid, but to use someone elses seems yucky! Same cousin offered me some of hers when I had a cold recently. I declined. While I am sure there are benefits, I can't even fathom ingesting or putting it on my body for any reason as an adult <<shiver>> I don't like when DS tries to lick me being funny, I sure as hell won't touch your breast milk with a ten foot pole!

[Apple]

If I'm going to be in contact with someone's bodily fluids, I'd rather be intimately familiar with them :/  Other than blood in an emergency, I guess, and I'd still prefer not to.

MarleyKeezy78 you must have been the one to post something about that crochet thing on FB?!  I remember seeing it, and thinking "there are corners of the internet I should not venture into".  It's crochet, not crotch-et for a reason!!

[MarleyKeezy78]

Lol, I forget other people in the fb world can see what I posts I comment on   It can be horrifying!!! Sorry you had to see that Apple 

[Apple]

It's ok, I laughed while I cringed.

[MarleyKeezy78]

All I could think was it's like a black widow weaving a web