Both my girls have described breastmilk as wonderfully sweet.  My now 4
year has told me it tasted like garlic after we had a very garlic meal.
 But still sweet.  I've tasted my milk mutliple times.  At the Southern
California LLL Conference I went to a session about breastmilk and taste
and lots of flavors get through to the milk.  I asked her if she had
ever asked older nurslings about taste and her response was she didn't
think 1-2 year olds could express themselves well enough.  A few of us
laughed (people i knew) because we were all nursing 3 plus year olds.  I
think it would be an interesting survey to ask older nurslings about taste.

I've made mashed potatoes out of milk.  It was good.  That was my
youngest's first solid, potatoes mashed with mommy milk.  I had a lot of
extra milk--didn't want to waste it.

Joylyn

Heleen Hayes wrote:

>On 9 Aug 2002 at 7:43, Phyllis Adamson wrote:
>
>>Toddlers we know and love like the taste. Didn't Dianne Weissinger's
>>(sp?) daughter say it tasted like melted ice cream? Maybe this woman's
>>description of the taste reflected her own thoughts about having to
>>taste it in the first place.
>>
>
>I have once drank a freshly pumped bottle of my own milk. My daugther was about 4
>weeks old and we were on our first outing. She wasn't nursing yet, but drank pumped
>milk (inverted nipples & hospital incompetence & my determination to give mothers
>milk). I had brought enough pumped milk & the mini electric to pump on site. BUT... then
>I had no place to put the filled bottle, so I drank it. It tasted like cardboard. So I can
>imagine someone describing it as disgusting... A small drop tastes sweet, but a mouthful
>doesn't taste that good, in my experience.
>
>Since then I understand why small children like to eat magazines, newspapers and
>books...
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>Heleen Hayes
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes
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