Just to touch on @FeministBreeder’s comment (but not to purposely make you nauseous). I’ve done some business traveling while nursing, but pumping away on business only for relief, since there was lots at home (and baby was 18+ mos old). I hate the idea of dumping something so precious and always tend to get sick when I travel on planes. I pretty much always drink most of what I express with a pump. It’s kind of sweet. It doesn’t taste like cow milk at all (from what I remember) and of course it was warm.

I really enjoyed your thoughts and all the comments.
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I acknowledge that it is very strange that I won’t taste my own breastmilk – and I have never, and would never, shame another mother for doing so (I’m actually pretty impressed – same way I feel about people who dive with sharks, no way I’d do it, but more power to you!)

I also don’t understand why being a feminist means I’m required to act exactly the way any other woman would act. My own personal feelings (call them hangups if you like) is that my breastmilk is not for my (or my husband’s) consumption.

In fact, when DH asked me what I’d do if I ever found myself in this situation, and refused his help with it, I told him I’d head to the nearest hospital. They all have breastpumps. That’s how far I’d go to avoid my husband’s mouth touching my baby’s breastmilk. Would I expect other mothers to do the same thing? Absolutely not. Do what works for you.
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Your comment reminds me of a Wendy Wasserstein play from the ’70s in which young feminists at a seven sisters school are discussing what they considered a rite of passage for young feminists: tasting their menstrual blood. It is ridiculous to say the willingness to do act X entirely defines whether you can be a feminist is … well …not feminist. I never tasted by own breast milk. The color was off-putting to me and I dislike any animal milk. It was a sensory issue, not a feminist one.
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I can also remember someone else suggesting, when I was very engorged after my daughter was born and we were discussing ways to relieve it that I could always “do husband.” So, it’s certainly not an unheard of thing.

BTW, I remember my grandmother (who was born in 1901) telling me that when she was young if a mother had too much milk, she would “get a puppy.”

And being lactose intolerant, my own milk doesn’t send him to the toilet for forty-five minutes like cow’s milk does. He made chocolate milk with it once, didn’t taste any different from regular milk, lol.