Exclusively Pumping

Please post your thoughts and comments about the taste of fresh and/or frozen breast milk.  If you tasted it, why and what did you think?  If you have not, why?

I should probably start this by saying...I am so not a milk person.  I can't stand the nasty stuff.  The thought of having a glass of milk is enough to make me gag.  A new gallon of milk smells spoiled rotton to me.  It's probably been 30 years since I've had a glass of the white stuff...chocolate milk is a different story.  I've drank chocolate milk until my stomach hurt. 

I posted about it just a little down in my thread about HUTH.  I tasted my fresh breast milk for the first time last Friday (my very last pump).  I never tasted it 6 years ago when I EPed for my older daughter and when I finished pumping the other day I thought to myself that this would the last time I ever had the opportunity to taste my fresh milk.  I've read that it's sweet tasting, but I didn't think so.  It was warm and creamy and not much taste at all.  I had just a little sip.

Today I decided to taste some thawed breast milk.  Cate has recently started rejecting some frozen milk.  I'm not sure why.  There have been plenty of times that she has taken frozen just fine...when I was sick and on meds, when I had a margarita or two or three, when my older dd was in the hospital for three days, a day here and there when I decided to test out randam bags of frozen...plenty of times and she never once had a problem with any of it.  So with her recent rejection of the occassional bottle (she'll drink a couple of ounces but then be done and doesn't act hungry afterwards), but with her recent rejection of some bottles I've been wondering if it is a frozen issue because I have noticed the frozen stuff just smells different (not bad, just different) or is she rejecting because she is just too busy (she rejects bottles during the middle of the day...never morning or bedtime).  Okay, so I worked up the courage to take a sip...OMG!  It did have a very slight vomit taste...very slight.  I mixed in a teaspoon of French Vanilla creamer into the 8 oz bottle and tasted it again...no, vomit taste and it had a very slight sweet taste, but I still threw up in the kitchen sink - my head and dislike of milk had already gotten the better of me.

I wanted to cry.  How could I give this bottle to my baby?  But since I know the milk is still good...having a lipase issue doesn't make the milk bad...it just makes it taste different and so some babies reject it.  Cate downed the whole 8 oz and then let out a big burp.  She couldn't get enough of it.  Now she has the hiccups :D  Hopefully, my stash won't be wasted away with rejected bottles and we'll still have enough to get through the next 4-5 months *fingers crossed*