Thursday, June 10, 2010

Health-conscious men lap up mother's excess breast milk

A young mother has come up with a novel way of earning some extra cash while on maternity leave – by selling her breast milk online. Cash-strapped Toni Ebdon, 26, gave birth earlier this year and found herself producing more than enough milk for baby boy David.

A friend joked that she was producing so much extra milk that Toni could open her very own dairy. So she turned to the internet in a bid to offer expectant mothers who could not produce their own milk the chance to use hers.



But Toni was stunned when her only customers turned out to be men – who use the milk for its healing properties. Studies have shown breast milk can be used to maintain general good health and could even be a miracle cure for adult illnesses including cancer, diarrhoea and diabetes.

Toni, of Exeter, Devon, now has ten regular customers, who she charges £15 for 4oz of breast milk. She said: ”I was expecting women who couldn’t breast feed to get in touch but instead all the responses were from men.”

5 comments:

Peach said...

How long does that milk last once its out of the body?

cath said...

I would imagine that, as long as it's refrigerated, it lasts about the same as "regular" milk. Maybe a bit less since I assume it's not pasteurized.

Foreigner1 said...

All the trouble to get off that nasty milk and then restart at a later age...?
To me, that sounds more like some midlife crisis than health-consciousness.... 

so said...

To me that sounds more like some weird sexual fetish than health conciousness...
Why would there be only male customers, then?

L said...

Are these guys all from Saudi Arabia?