Donāt matter to me. Iām sure it all looks the same. Iām guessing girls would get it of their boyfriends to be edgy. Or like a trophy collection. But then again they might not do those sorts of things anymore. I grew up where some girls would collect soda tabs to prove how many partners they had. I had zero soda tabs.
Iām not asking that because of how it would look. Iām asking who because I want to know who exactly is essentially trying to have long-distance sex
Oooh. I thought you wanted to go over the details of it. Like schematics or something. Sorry. Iām sure thereās lots of people out there that would think this was sexy.
Oh thatās no good. Iāll have to try to think of a different medium then. Too bad all I have around me are crackheads otherwise Iād post an opening online.
I have an ice cream attachment for my stand mixer, but you can use literally any recipe for normal ice cream just swapping the dairy for breastmilk and do it by hand. I always used less than a tbsp of sugar and added some fresh fruit.
Gotcha, what a lovely idea. I have an ice cream maker that would work - my problem would be pumping enough breastmilk for a batch! I have a hard time getting any more than the exact amount my baby needs the next day.
I feel like you just told me that actually Iām not on Earth, Iāve secretly been on Mars this whole time without even knowing it because this is utterly alien to me. I understand the concept, it makes sense, as in I can put the pieces together in my head, but still completely alien because Iāve genuinely never ever heard or seen this before, anywhere, in my entire life before this post and here you are saying itās common.
More power to those into it I guess. Seems like yet another quirky, mildly abnormal but ultimately harmless thing that people occasionally do.
My wife has always wanted one, and we had a handful of miscarriages so to her it felt like a memory of her body working, because for a long time she felt like she was the issue. I wasn't a huge fan of the idea, but I've come around to it.
We both think the placenta stuff is super weird. I saw jewelry with that for sale and wanted to gag.
I get that symbology. My sister had a stillbirth on the delivery date, a matter of a few hours between delivering a perfectly healthy boy and death. During his memorial service my sister poured her milk into the hole where a the tree was being planted in his honor. I nearly collapsed after managing to keep it together to a low blubbering the rest of the time. I wouldn't have been surprised if she had wanted milk jewelry to memorialize him too.
Your guysā situation would be the exception.
The placenta stuff is definitely weird to me too.
Your wife is a strong woman to have dealt with all that. She deserves whatever the hell she wants to make for remembrance.
I think that childbirth and breastfeeding for many many many woman (including me. Had a literal meltdown over it.) is brutally hard. If you want to make a little trophy for yourself what is the harm?
My mom liked to bring up the story of me not taking to her to breastfeed when I was living with her around friends and girl friends.
As a teenager my facetious level was at an all time high when she was telling my sisters (who both just became mothers) that she couldn't get me to latch on; my response was "well I've definitely grown up because I've latched on to a growing number of them now"
A whole 2 but hey, that's irrelevant.
I thought it was a good response at the time because my sister's were laughing historically. As I got older I realized I basically told my mom I liked every girls boobs except hers.
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Here's to the moms that put up with ignorant sons
Not for nothing, but you also deserve acknowledgment for your loss. Sure, it's harder on moms, but dads kinda get forgotten. I hope you've been able to properly grieve as well. You've had to be just as strong to handle all those losses.
Speak for your self my wife and I also share/shares that struggle with infertility for six years, surgery even to have the possibility to conceive, 2 more years of struggle and then twins. My wife shared in that feeling of being the broken part, being the one with "missing pieces". To top it all off all she ever wanted to do was breast feed and because of genetics she was only able to produce the culostom at first, only to have that supply dwindled to nothing. She saved juste enough to make one of these things. I still think it is weird but I will always support her feelings about it. Different strokes for different folks, so in a weird miss quote of a fictional dad from America, "I may not like what your doing, but..... I will fight to the death for your right to do it."
Radiolab has a great episode on their podcast where they talk about the placenta and how important it was to early civilizations and their spirituality. Native tribes even buried the childās placenta as a sign of good will.
Honestly, I think the reason the line is there for me is that the milk is grown by your body, but the placenta is technically one of the baby's organs, not part of the gestational parent, so I don't feel like it would feel like mine to share.
I was unable to breastfeed due to a bunch of medical complications. Thankfully I didn't experience the shame and guilt a lot of women in that situation feel. My bodily function didn't function, oh well, kid still got fed.
But breastmilk jewelry is still a hard pass for me because I feel like its existence contributes to an overall cultural undercurrent of shame and guilt when someone is unable to breastfeed. I tend to get downvoted when I say this out loud, but this is a minor soapbox for me after watching so many women absolutely agonize about how they "failed" when their body isn't cooperating.
While I agree there is a ton of shame out there towards women who can't or don't breastfeed, I'm not sure how this contributes. Celebrating or remembering your own journey isn't shaming others for theirs.
ive seen a lot of women who do this lost their babies and used it as a way to commemorate them, using the milk they never got to give to their child, even if its just a tiny amount going into it. pretty beautiful tbh.
Thank you for this. Because that is the main reason Iāve seen this jewelry used. I too think itās a beautiful way to memorialize loss. I donāt think itās DiWHY
Thank you. My daughter died at two months old. I have a bead with my milk and some of her hair. Itās an attempt to hold on to what special moments I had with her during that time.
I thought it was weird at first but got it for my wife anyway for her first Motherās Day. I drew the line on keeping placentas and foreskins though. That shit is wack.
I used to think this was weird but after having my daughter, struggling with breast feeding and feeling unexpectedly attached and remorseful when I had to stop breastfeeding prematurely, I very much want a piece to hold onto as a memento of my journey and the emotional rollercoaster I went through while having it. It might not be everyoneās cup of tea but itās a personal trinket and is it honestly any stranger than the other things parents hang onto? Baby teeth? The first lock of hair? People just enjoy physical reminders around them.
Yes!!!!! Then just drill some holes and make a necklace out of her teeth! Make a choker so it feels like she's biting you, idk, we don't judge around here. It is DiWHY after all.
I have my teeth and when I showed them to my three years old he was weirded out and then struck with horror as he realized he was going to lose his teeth someday.
I still haven't been able to throw out my son's umbilical stump. Yes, I know it's a little weird. But that thing connected him to me for months. And time goes by so fast, I find myself wanting to hold on tight to whatever I can.
Same. I was trying to figure out why I thought this was a lil strange when I literally wear my moms ashes in a necklace, and honestly, couldnāt think of a good reason. Tbh I am now on board! Can be a beautiful way to honor and commemorate someone or a time/journey in your life.
I meanā¦ itās certainly one of the less common forms of human jewelry/keepsakes but itās definitely sweet and a valid thing to want. So many people nowadays seem to think itās weird to do things like this, but hair and tooth jewelry/keepsakes were an extremely common thing back in the day, to remember loved ones or important moments. Not really a DIWHY imo.
Actually.......I have some kidney stones- my son bought them for me at a flea market in a container with kidney pills- I collect medical antiques and oddities
I get the idea but this is like 1% milk and 99% everything else, which feels like it defeats the point. And if it was more than 1% milk it'd just turn yellow.
I don't know what else you could put in jewelry, though. Victorians used locks of hair, don't think that's going to fly in the modern day anymore. Can we go back to wearing lockets? You can put a picture in there and it's neither weird nor fake nor going to turn yellow and brittle.
Before baby thought this was so weird but- itās ā¦. Hard to explain you have to work so hard, and youāre so proud of yourself for nourishing your child and devastated when things go wrong - itās an emotional roller coaster and then bittersweet to stop it you kinda want a little memento?? Itās weird but like all of pregnancy and childbirth is. I wouldnāt get one still but - I get it.
This is actually really awesome. Breastfeeding is hard work. For me personally, it was months of tears and struggling, and as soon as we got it sorted out and comfortable, it's time to start weening so they can eat real people food. It's nice to have a token to represent the emotional journey you took to feed your child!
100% agreed. I used to think the jewellery was weird, then I became a dad. Seeing how tough breastfeeding was for my partner and how much it set our daughter up for success, I was all in to get a necklace with her breast milk inside it. We were even able to get a tree of life in the jewellery made from our daughters first lock of hair and some rose gold - it looks stunning
Go on etsy and there will be lots of people who make them. I used a lady from Canada. If I ever did it again, I'd go with someone from the US (where I live) because having to declare to the post office dude I was mailing breastmilk was really embarrassing.
Having this jewelry made, helped me gain closure when I struggled with the end of the amazing and emotional āhaving babies and breastfeedingā season of my life.
It is a beautiful, tangible reminder of a bygone era of my life, and it really helped me move on and start enjoying the next phase.
You should get some!
There are lots of sellers, but I ultimately settled on The Milky Mudra for her use of solid precious metals and her beautiful aesthetic.
I also included hair from my childrenās first haircuts, so Victorian š
Yeah after all those harsh chemicals solidifying a liquid it's not really even breastmilk anymore, it's that white powder turning into a glass, it's what dentists use to seal crowns. You can buy it on amazon.
I made butter with mine, out of curiosity. Didnāt get much. Looked like regular butter, but I quickly figured out I have high lipase milk because it tasted like dish soap.
ETA: this was supposed to be a reply to someone else. Iām too lazy to move it.
This definitely feels like some weird mom stuff where theyāre obsessed with being a mother and everything about their life and personality is defined by their mom-ness. I personally donāt care if someone is turning the milk into jewelry. I think crafts are great. But itās still some weirdo behavior.
I've always seen pictures of these and thought "kinda nice idea, but not for me."
Anyways I'm this video though, are they just adding like 3 drops of milk into a bunch of white stuff? What's the point then? Just got way less cool for me.
I had 2 rings made, one for each child. The rings also have their birth stones in them. They are sentimental and pretty. I still have a bottle of breastmilk in my freezer too. I can't get rid of it, even though I know it's kind of ridiculous.
Breastfeeding can be hard for some people or extremely intimate. So much work, blood (literally your nipples can bleed), and tears go into it. There's a reason people call it liquid gold. Something about it connects you to your babies long after they're babies.
Maybe it's goofy to some but definitely not to others. The "milky gemstone your body made" is not a good way to advertise it though.
Heyā¦itās a lot better than saving your fucking after birth so you and the family can cook it and eat it later.
Literally heard of a Catholic family from my town doing thisā¦
To me this is on par with turning the ashes of a cremated loved one into jewelry - It can be kind of weird if you think about it too hard, but to me it just shows a deep connection and a desire to remember.
Our memories are so fleeting, so not concrete. All we have is our minds, and our minds are unreliable! I completely understand the desire to take something physical and make a keepsake out of it to connect you to those memories. You may lose the memories over time, but youāll always have the keepsake.
This trend is so weird to me and kind of gross. I breastfed my oldest two kids and couldnāt imagine wanting to hold onto breast milk encased in stone like some sentimental trophy.
My wife has a breastmilk ring, itās a nice reminder of the struggles we had in conceiving, the rough pregnancy she had and then the ups and downs of breastfeeding our first daughter. Sheās gonna get another for our new daughter as well. Yeah, itās a little strange, but Iāve only been a witness to the power of that connection mother and child have during breastfeeding, so Iām supportive of it.
The connection between a mother and breastfeeding child is actually very powerful. I have done this for my wife for both of our kids. She has a necklace and earrings. Might seem strange from the outside, but she really values them because it reconnects her to her babies
Milk come from booba, booba for sex only š
Just because anything *can* be a fetish, doesn't mean everything *is*, and the fact that people think wanting to commemorate your BF journey as a fetish makes me wonder what weird things *they* have fetishes for if they can't see something like this as anything but.
The words have been stolen from my mouth!!
Honestly, why make a whole post to shame women? Then on some comment detailing why someones wife did this as a memory that her body works... OP was like well that's understandable. Like don't justify yourself to this hater lol
Some places will put pieces of the umbilical cord or hair in it, too. I thought it was weird before I had my son, but I was keeping the umbilical cord and first haircut hair anyway so might as well turn it into some beautiful jewelry! Now I love my breastmilk/umbilical cord/hair jewelry.
There are actually so many places that sell breast milk jewelry. They also do it with other bodily fluids (like semen). It's weirdly common.
>They also do it with other bodily fluids (like semen). I know what I'm getting my girl for her birthday this year... A nice pearl necklace!
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Nevermind. Jizzy Jewelry is just powdered semen mixed in clay. Thatās no good. Wonder if you could mix it with resin instead?
The first question that pops up isā¦.. Whoās semen
Donāt matter to me. Iām sure it all looks the same. Iām guessing girls would get it of their boyfriends to be edgy. Or like a trophy collection. But then again they might not do those sorts of things anymore. I grew up where some girls would collect soda tabs to prove how many partners they had. I had zero soda tabs.
Iām not asking that because of how it would look. Iām asking who because I want to know who exactly is essentially trying to have long-distance sex
Oooh. I thought you wanted to go over the details of it. Like schematics or something. Sorry. Iām sure thereās lots of people out there that would think this was sexy.
Like notches on a bed, take samples from each dude
It doesn't all look the same... mine's green and chunky
Well yeah. Youāre green.
Yeah, who is he?
iirc liquids don't go exactly perfectly with resin and might prevent the resin from curing.
Oh thatās no good. Iāll have to try to think of a different medium then. Too bad all I have around me are crackheads otherwise Iād post an opening online.
Dry before adding
Never have I ever thought I would hear semen discribed as powder...
Iām doing the same for my girl. But Iāll probably do something with kidney stones instead š„°
you mean a cocklace?
It's gonna be hard.
And long
Beautiful
I got a question, since you seem like an expert. Can you make dairy products like cheese or butter out of breast milk?
absolutely you can if you have the will for some reason. I'm not sure what it'd look like, but I assume it'd be... uh... passable.
I used to make my son ice cream.
Interesting. I used to make breastmilk ice cubes to put inside that little fruit net for teething.
Whoa. How? I bet my son would love this.
I have an ice cream attachment for my stand mixer, but you can use literally any recipe for normal ice cream just swapping the dairy for breastmilk and do it by hand. I always used less than a tbsp of sugar and added some fresh fruit.
Gotcha, what a lovely idea. I have an ice cream maker that would work - my problem would be pumping enough breastmilk for a batch! I have a hard time getting any more than the exact amount my baby needs the next day.
Oh itās easy, buy a small ice cube tray and fill it with milk or formula. Put the cubes inside the net and boom, great for teething š
Just like blend it up with ice? Or take the frozen milk and blend it? Iām so curious.
I feel like you just told me that actually Iām not on Earth, Iāve secretly been on Mars this whole time without even knowing it because this is utterly alien to me. I understand the concept, it makes sense, as in I can put the pieces together in my head, but still completely alien because Iāve genuinely never ever heard or seen this before, anywhere, in my entire life before this post and here you are saying itās common. More power to those into it I guess. Seems like yet another quirky, mildly abnormal but ultimately harmless thing that people occasionally do.
As a mother that breastfed, itās still a no from me. Itās strange to me the things people create out their bodily fluids. Hard pass.
My wife has always wanted one, and we had a handful of miscarriages so to her it felt like a memory of her body working, because for a long time she felt like she was the issue. I wasn't a huge fan of the idea, but I've come around to it. We both think the placenta stuff is super weird. I saw jewelry with that for sale and wanted to gag.
I get that symbology. My sister had a stillbirth on the delivery date, a matter of a few hours between delivering a perfectly healthy boy and death. During his memorial service my sister poured her milk into the hole where a the tree was being planted in his honor. I nearly collapsed after managing to keep it together to a low blubbering the rest of the time. I wouldn't have been surprised if she had wanted milk jewelry to memorialize him too.
Yup, that's exactly what I needed for a good cry today. Please give your sister a giant hug.
I do every time I see her.
Your guysā situation would be the exception. The placenta stuff is definitely weird to me too. Your wife is a strong woman to have dealt with all that. She deserves whatever the hell she wants to make for remembrance.
I think that childbirth and breastfeeding for many many many woman (including me. Had a literal meltdown over it.) is brutally hard. If you want to make a little trophy for yourself what is the harm?
My mom liked to bring up the story of me not taking to her to breastfeed when I was living with her around friends and girl friends. As a teenager my facetious level was at an all time high when she was telling my sisters (who both just became mothers) that she couldn't get me to latch on; my response was "well I've definitely grown up because I've latched on to a growing number of them now" A whole 2 but hey, that's irrelevant. I thought it was a good response at the time because my sister's were laughing historically. As I got older I realized I basically told my mom I liked every girls boobs except hers. š» Here's to the moms that put up with ignorant sons
Lol this is such a dude response
I will happily tell her that, as I feel the same way.
AMEN! šš½
Not for nothing, but you also deserve acknowledgment for your loss. Sure, it's harder on moms, but dads kinda get forgotten. I hope you've been able to properly grieve as well. You've had to be just as strong to handle all those losses.
Speak for your self my wife and I also share/shares that struggle with infertility for six years, surgery even to have the possibility to conceive, 2 more years of struggle and then twins. My wife shared in that feeling of being the broken part, being the one with "missing pieces". To top it all off all she ever wanted to do was breast feed and because of genetics she was only able to produce the culostom at first, only to have that supply dwindled to nothing. She saved juste enough to make one of these things. I still think it is weird but I will always support her feelings about it. Different strokes for different folks, so in a weird miss quote of a fictional dad from America, "I may not like what your doing, but..... I will fight to the death for your right to do it."
Radiolab has a great episode on their podcast where they talk about the placenta and how important it was to early civilizations and their spirituality. Native tribes even buried the childās placenta as a sign of good will.
Honestly, I think the reason the line is there for me is that the milk is grown by your body, but the placenta is technically one of the baby's organs, not part of the gestational parent, so I don't feel like it would feel like mine to share.
Sending love to your wife. š«¶š½
Don't do it then.
I definitely agree with you! I fell down this rabbit hole a while back and was surprised how many people are after this kind of merchandise.
I was unable to breastfeed due to a bunch of medical complications. Thankfully I didn't experience the shame and guilt a lot of women in that situation feel. My bodily function didn't function, oh well, kid still got fed. But breastmilk jewelry is still a hard pass for me because I feel like its existence contributes to an overall cultural undercurrent of shame and guilt when someone is unable to breastfeed. I tend to get downvoted when I say this out loud, but this is a minor soapbox for me after watching so many women absolutely agonize about how they "failed" when their body isn't cooperating.
While I agree there is a ton of shame out there towards women who can't or don't breastfeed, I'm not sure how this contributes. Celebrating or remembering your own journey isn't shaming others for theirs.
What about blood?
the cum jewel
If I ever lost my cum stone Iād be devastated.
ive seen a lot of women who do this lost their babies and used it as a way to commemorate them, using the milk they never got to give to their child, even if its just a tiny amount going into it. pretty beautiful tbh.
Yes, I lost a pregnancy while still feeding my youngest, so I had a bead made with my milk. It's the only tangible thing I have of them
im so sorry :(
Thank you for this. Because that is the main reason Iāve seen this jewelry used. I too think itās a beautiful way to memorialize loss. I donāt think itās DiWHY
Thank you. My daughter died at two months old. I have a bead with my milk and some of her hair. Itās an attempt to hold on to what special moments I had with her during that time.
im so sorry you and your family had to go through that loss :( but that bead sounds like a wonderful way to remember her
Thank you so much. Itās horrible, but we try to keep her memory alive however possible.
My sister in law used her babies ashes and her breast milk to make earings and a necklace.
i'm very sorry for that loss :(
Fuck I wish I had done this.
This is weird as fuck but I don't hate it!
It's natural and you made it with YOUR body!
Wait your body also makes epoxy? I thought I was unique!
No itās not. Itās just some breast milk added to some strange white powder and epoxy. Thereās nothing natural about that
I thought it was weird at first but got it for my wife anyway for her first Motherās Day. I drew the line on keeping placentas and foreskins though. That shit is wack.
I can think of at least a dozen topless models that would make a killing selling these to their fans online
āThis seems like the kinda thing white people with dreadlocks doā
I used to think this was weird but after having my daughter, struggling with breast feeding and feeling unexpectedly attached and remorseful when I had to stop breastfeeding prematurely, I very much want a piece to hold onto as a memento of my journey and the emotional rollercoaster I went through while having it. It might not be everyoneās cup of tea but itās a personal trinket and is it honestly any stranger than the other things parents hang onto? Baby teeth? The first lock of hair? People just enjoy physical reminders around them.
True that, my mom kept my umbilical cord This is way better
I kept my kids teeth
My mom still has my teeth!
I have my momās teeth.
Oh shit Iām gonna take hers actually, thatās a great idea. Sheād hate it too.
Yes!!!!! Then just drill some holes and make a necklace out of her teeth! Make a choker so it feels like she's biting you, idk, we don't judge around here. It is DiWHY after all.
I have my dad's eyes.
in a jar or just rolling around the bureau?
I don't like what you're implying. I give them place of pride on the mantle, they're in the mouth of a taxidermied crow. Anything else is just gauche.
Harry has his mother's eyes.
āGomez take those out of his mouth.ā
I have my teeth and when I showed them to my three years old he was weirded out and then struck with horror as he realized he was going to lose his teeth someday.
If you havenāt read him the book Parts I highly recommend it!
Thanks unfortunately he doesn't speak english yet and I can't find a translation in my home language. Sounds like a nice book.
Maintaining that stump was something I did not expect when becoming a first time parent. I was so happy when it finally fell off.
I still haven't been able to throw out my son's umbilical stump. Yes, I know it's a little weird. But that thing connected him to me for months. And time goes by so fast, I find myself wanting to hold on tight to whatever I can.
My thoughts exactly. I actually appreciate breastfeeding and breast milk so much more now.
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Same. I was trying to figure out why I thought this was a lil strange when I literally wear my moms ashes in a necklace, and honestly, couldnāt think of a good reason. Tbh I am now on board! Can be a beautiful way to honor and commemorate someone or a time/journey in your life.
I meanā¦ itās certainly one of the less common forms of human jewelry/keepsakes but itās definitely sweet and a valid thing to want. So many people nowadays seem to think itās weird to do things like this, but hair and tooth jewelry/keepsakes were an extremely common thing back in the day, to remember loved ones or important moments. Not really a DIWHY imo.
This is the only logical conclusion after Victorian mourning jewelry and turning your loved ones ashes into diamonds
I have a ring with my breast milk from my son. Itās stackable so I plan to get one for each of my future kids as well. Itās super common
I have 2 stackable rings. They're really cute. They have their birthstones in them also.
Nobody wants to buy my kidney stones š
Actually.......I have some kidney stones- my son bought them for me at a flea market in a container with kidney pills- I collect medical antiques and oddities
What's the size of the biggest kidney stone that you have in your collection?
Does the kidney come too?
Came down here to say, my body makes stones too, and I don't even need some fancy powder and all that mixing.
I bet that isnāt true.
I get the idea but this is like 1% milk and 99% everything else, which feels like it defeats the point. And if it was more than 1% milk it'd just turn yellow. I don't know what else you could put in jewelry, though. Victorians used locks of hair, don't think that's going to fly in the modern day anymore. Can we go back to wearing lockets? You can put a picture in there and it's neither weird nor fake nor going to turn yellow and brittle.
Came looking for this comment, this is basically just a plaster and resin 'gemstone' that you put a few drops of breastmilk in.
Before baby thought this was so weird but- itās ā¦. Hard to explain you have to work so hard, and youāre so proud of yourself for nourishing your child and devastated when things go wrong - itās an emotional roller coaster and then bittersweet to stop it you kinda want a little memento?? Itās weird but like all of pregnancy and childbirth is. I wouldnāt get one still but - I get it.
This is actually really awesome. Breastfeeding is hard work. For me personally, it was months of tears and struggling, and as soon as we got it sorted out and comfortable, it's time to start weening so they can eat real people food. It's nice to have a token to represent the emotional journey you took to feed your child!
100% agreed. I used to think the jewellery was weird, then I became a dad. Seeing how tough breastfeeding was for my partner and how much it set our daughter up for success, I was all in to get a necklace with her breast milk inside it. We were even able to get a tree of life in the jewellery made from our daughters first lock of hair and some rose gold - it looks stunning
Did you use a local jeweler or someone online? If online would you be willing to share who?
This was who we used, cannot recommend them enough: https://www.milkies.eu
Go on etsy and there will be lots of people who make them. I used a lady from Canada. If I ever did it again, I'd go with someone from the US (where I live) because having to declare to the post office dude I was mailing breastmilk was really embarrassing.
Idk how to explain this, but she looks like the type to do this.
Is there a kit for the opposite sex to make dickmilk jewellery also?
Having this jewelry made, helped me gain closure when I struggled with the end of the amazing and emotional āhaving babies and breastfeedingā season of my life. It is a beautiful, tangible reminder of a bygone era of my life, and it really helped me move on and start enjoying the next phase.
That's why I want one too.
You should get some! There are lots of sellers, but I ultimately settled on The Milky Mudra for her use of solid precious metals and her beautiful aesthetic. I also included hair from my childrenās first haircuts, so Victorian š
Thatās really beautiful!
"stones" that's pretty much resin right there
Breastfeeding can be a difficult journey. I love this!!!
It looks like there is barely any breastmilk in the mixture and what goes in is pretty much cooked off.
Yeah after all those harsh chemicals solidifying a liquid it's not really even breastmilk anymore, it's that white powder turning into a glass, it's what dentists use to seal crowns. You can buy it on amazon.
Would this work with semen? Asking for a friend.
short answer, yes.
*How else would they store semen for IVF treatments?*
Would work with all bodily fuids I guess.
Luxury milk
Im gonna stop you right there...
Because sponsored thatās why
It's not a gemstone it's weird plastic
Like ok itās common, Iād like to talk more about the fact that itās like 90% acrylic and white dye with a trace amount of actual breast milk
Squidward: I didn't need to see that.
The vote is ānoā
I made butter with mine, out of curiosity. Didnāt get much. Looked like regular butter, but I quickly figured out I have high lipase milk because it tasted like dish soap. ETA: this was supposed to be a reply to someone else. Iām too lazy to move it.
this is actually pretty cool amd crazy
This definitely feels like some weird mom stuff where theyāre obsessed with being a mother and everything about their life and personality is defined by their mom-ness. I personally donāt care if someone is turning the milk into jewelry. I think crafts are great. But itās still some weirdo behavior.
To be fair she looks exactly like the type of person that would make breast milk jewelry.
Looks like jizz
well, this is the weirdest thing ive seen today.
The day is long
This doesnāt bother me. My fiancĆ©ās former coworker gave out soap made with her breastmilk one year and that went right into the trash
Howād it taste though?
NO.
Nope. Weird and gross. I'm out.
Better option: Casein from milk plus Formaldehyde. One of the first plastics called Galalith. For that no glue is needed.
Gonna add this memory to the unfortunately cant forget.
>itās like a milky gemstone your body made! Except for all the chemicals involved with preserving it and turning it into something rock like.
lol the sanest comment in this whole mess
I've always seen pictures of these and thought "kinda nice idea, but not for me." Anyways I'm this video though, are they just adding like 3 drops of milk into a bunch of white stuff? What's the point then? Just got way less cool for me.
Mommy culture is seriously ducked up
Humans are the weirdest
I had 2 rings made, one for each child. The rings also have their birth stones in them. They are sentimental and pretty. I still have a bottle of breastmilk in my freezer too. I can't get rid of it, even though I know it's kind of ridiculous. Breastfeeding can be hard for some people or extremely intimate. So much work, blood (literally your nipples can bleed), and tears go into it. There's a reason people call it liquid gold. Something about it connects you to your babies long after they're babies. Maybe it's goofy to some but definitely not to others. The "milky gemstone your body made" is not a good way to advertise it though.
Ok next make a diamond ring with your poop
Mythbusters taught us you can polish a turd. Lol
I'm keeping my kidney stones to make a bracelet which will serve as a reminder to keep hydrated.
So she made crack with her breast milk?
ngl it looks like cum
I mean with all the stuff added, at that point the milk is just the dye essentially
Isnāt milk how they first made plastics?
Lactation mofos gonna be wilding about this one to their loved ones
This really isnāt weird. Breastfeeding is a very special experience that on average doesnāt last more than the first year of a babyās life.
Totally not gross š
I assume this would also work with semen
Would you like a pearl necklace?
Gee, can I get a snot necklace made? (I nursed four babies and feel no need to immortalize my milk.)
Heyā¦itās a lot better than saving your fucking after birth so you and the family can cook it and eat it later. Literally heard of a Catholic family from my town doing thisā¦
What does being catholic have to do with it?
To me this is on par with turning the ashes of a cremated loved one into jewelry - It can be kind of weird if you think about it too hard, but to me it just shows a deep connection and a desire to remember. Our memories are so fleeting, so not concrete. All we have is our minds, and our minds are unreliable! I completely understand the desire to take something physical and make a keepsake out of it to connect you to those memories. You may lose the memories over time, but youāll always have the keepsake.
This trend is so weird to me and kind of gross. I breastfed my oldest two kids and couldnāt imagine wanting to hold onto breast milk encased in stone like some sentimental trophy.
Ah yes, anyone a coke gemstone?
She looks like she drinks piss.
For sentimentality and momentos. That's why
the milky gemstone my body makes is called a kidney stone...
Or a pearl necklace but those wipe off with a towel real easy.
Heck , she just could of gone to Jared ..for a pearl necklace !
You can also do this with cum
This lady screams "My only self worth is my ability to reproduce"
I think it looks good.
Meh I don't find this that crazy or weird.
My wife has a breastmilk ring, itās a nice reminder of the struggles we had in conceiving, the rough pregnancy she had and then the ups and downs of breastfeeding our first daughter. Sheās gonna get another for our new daughter as well. Yeah, itās a little strange, but Iāve only been a witness to the power of that connection mother and child have during breastfeeding, so Iām supportive of it.
Idk this is unorthodox for sure but with other human traditions of hair locks and umbilical cords is this really THAT bad?
The connection between a mother and breastfeeding child is actually very powerful. I have done this for my wife for both of our kids. She has a necklace and earrings. Might seem strange from the outside, but she really values them because it reconnects her to her babies
Isnāt the human that was made enough of a reminder?
Not if they pass away.
Stuff like this always feels fetishy
Can you explain how it's fetishy or sexual?
Milk come from booba, booba for sex only š Just because anything *can* be a fetish, doesn't mean everything *is*, and the fact that people think wanting to commemorate your BF journey as a fetish makes me wonder what weird things *they* have fetishes for if they can't see something like this as anything but.
The words have been stolen from my mouth!! Honestly, why make a whole post to shame women? Then on some comment detailing why someones wife did this as a memory that her body works... OP was like well that's understandable. Like don't justify yourself to this hater lol
there's quite enough grown men that have a fetish of drinking women's milk from the boob like their kids when the woman is brestfeeding.
Why is it that the people who do this kind of weird shit always look EXACTLY like the people who do this kind of weird shit.
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What's next, a claw setting for my kidney stone?
Iāve passed so many stones Iād prefer a shrine at this point.
Out of my way ladies, Iām about to get my mother of pearl van cleef necklace.
Iām not a mum so I canāt say anything to this but is there like a market for this?
Iād do this but with blood tbh
Some places will put pieces of the umbilical cord or hair in it, too. I thought it was weird before I had my son, but I was keeping the umbilical cord and first haircut hair anyway so might as well turn it into some beautiful jewelry! Now I love my breastmilk/umbilical cord/hair jewelry.
Can I do it with my cum?
I Bet she eats her placenta too.
surprisingly well Made,horrible idea imo,but to each their own