Well now that we have established my daughter is not self-weaning, time to boost the milk supply! I found a recipe to make plastic jewellery out of milk! The recipe does use cow’s milk, but I’m sure with some experimentation I can make it work with breastmilk. I only have a few bags of breastmilk in the freezer to experiment with, which isn’t much. So time to boost the supply and pump just in case it takes me a 3 or 5 or 10 tries to get this right. You do remember my excitement over discovering the breastmilk jewllery, yes?

How would I make jewellry out of breastmilk you ask? By mixing warm milk with vinegar to extract the casein in the milk. When milk goes bad it starts to curdle. Those chunks or curds are made of casein. They start to form when the solid milk proteins separate from the liquid proteins. Casein is thick and rubbery in texture, and is a type of natural plastic which can be molded into shapes and turned into jewellery. This really is the coolest thing ever!

 Must go pump, I have some jewellery to make!

It looks like she is not weaning herself off the breast! Night-time feedings have slowly tapered off and most nights she sleeps through without asking for boobie even once. But it seems I jumped the gun. As I type, she nurses. Aaaah, the life of a breastfeeder.