Christina The Astonishing

Without delay, when she turned her eyes to herself, she saw that the dry paps of her virginal breasts were dripping sweet milk against the very law of nature. Wondrous thing! Unheard of in all the centuries since the incomparable Mother of God!

Because of her piety and faith, God gave Christina sustenance. Yet he does not give her the ordinary and often polluted food of mortals, which sometimes tasted to her as though she was "swallowing the bowels of frogs and toads or the intestines of snakes". He does not shower her with a holy food such as manna. Instead, God gives her something even more holy: her own breast milk. From this, Christina's holiness becomes similar to none other than "the incomparable Mother of God!"-who, also a virgin, breast-fed the baby Jesus.

-Thomas De Cantimpre

Pumped Up Dads

Not really sure what this Pumped Up Dads piece is all in aid of really- maybe just an excuse for men to play with their nipples? This is what they say about it :)

'Description: At the dadlabs we believe you should do everything in your
power to understand what she, the breastfeeding mom, is going through.
We put our beliefs to the Breast Pump 101 test. Wonder what it must feel
like to get hooked up to a breast pump? Maybe you should. Daddy Clay and
Daddy Brad perform a controlled experiment to increase their
understanding of this ordeal. Gain insight into what breastfeeding
working moms go through every day. And wonder what the hell the DadLabs
guys were thinking."

Cheese Queen

I placed the milk in a bowl and when that was done the idea came to me to make a small homemade cheese out of it. The old man had given me some rennet and I stirred this into my milk and then let the mixture set. Afterwards I tied the mixture up in a small muslin bag over the sink and let it drip.

The cheese tasted mild and slightly watery. I spread it on some bread and sprinkled salt over it to bring out the flavour and when I had finished I lay down on the bed with the child beside me in her cot.

-Angelica Jacob

'Fermentaion'

A friend of a friend is apparently keen to make cheese out of human breastmilk. And I am most keen to do see what I taste like as boccocini or brie... This project would require a serious increase in production on my part though! Lately I have become lazy and only pumping once a day and taking a bare minimum of supplements- just keeping it going until I work out what to do next. Milk still there, enough to put in tea or serve in shot glasses and spray across the room at unsuspecting folk, but its more a matter of mouthfuls than cupfuls.

Strange, as I have been typing this I can feel my breast swelling and tingly and getting tighter. They say that many women experience this sensation when they hear a baby cry, but with me it seems to be either thinking of cheese (or thinking of eating myself as cheese?), that gets my breasts ready for production.

Mmmm, Maple Milk

Was at one of my favourite cafes and saw 'maple coffee' on the menu. Turns out to be a regular brew witha shot of maple syrup. Tried it, thought it tasted familiar somehow, and then my companion in caffeination pointed out that this was no doubt because my milk tastes of artificial maple syrup...