Meet Mum Who Sold Her Excess Breast Milk Online
While on maternity leave after the birth of her first child, David, 5 years ago, single mum, Toni Ebdon, 31, earned extra cash by selling her spare breast milk online.
She would charge £15 for 4ozs – but said the only interested parties were “balding, middle aged men” with a fetish for breast milk.
Toni, of Exmouth, Devon, recently gave birth to her second child – and decided against repeating the sale after the negative reaction she got the first time round.
She said: “I was investigated by social services. People also called me a bad mum and accused me of putting my baby in danger. I think it’s quite sick adults wanting to drink breast milk but there are much worse things people do. As long as they’re not hurting anyone it doesn’t bother me. The buyers were all men. They were all pretty much the same because they were middle-aged and balding. One even looked like a professor with his tweed jacket and glasses. I made enough money to get by while I was waiting for my maternity money to come through. One man offered me £50 an ounce for it fresh but I refused.”
Toni insists she never put her child in harm’s way.
She said: “I never let buyers come to my house. I would meet them in town in a crowded place and would arrive before them and go to several places afterwards to make sure I wasn’t being followed. I never took my baby with me.”
Toni says she was fortunate enough to be producing enough milk for both her baby and her customers and didn’t want it to go to waste.
“I had a lot of excess milk so I offered it to a breast milk bank for babies but they were full at the time. As I wasn’t able to donate it I advertised it for sale on Gumtree which you’re not allowed to do now. I wouldn’t know where to sell it now. I stopped selling due to the reaction I got the first time around. I would have carried on otherwise. People aren’t open-minded and are too quick to judge,” she said.
Source: Mirror
hmmmmmm things people do for money
A lot of questions on my mind concerning this act.
Hmmmmmm
Ewwwwww something. Some humans tho’
Nothing we won’t see ooo
I would also react negative to this
At least she took a step towards donating.
Since dry were full,they wild hv redirected her sum where else.
I cnt judge her action tho.
This is so weird.
Message.. Whts dis?
crasy tings people do.lol
I can’t judge her
Men drinking breast milk or could they have used it for something else.
Well….. There is a store in the UK that buys human breast milk to make ice cream and people buy it alot…. so far she is safe and the milk is the excess I don’t see the big deal I can only say ewwww to the agbaya men but wait ooo even we human beings no be cow milk we dey shack?
Na wa
It’s good as far as she is safe. My mum used to donate hers in da 70s in Canada to women who doesn’t want to breastfeed directly so nurses will provide her with bottles
Things people do for money
God forbid I won’t sell nor buy.i cant give my babies another woman’s milk instead I wl use formula neither wl I sell especially to “bald middle aged men” cos my African mentality wl tell me its for rituals
Don’t try this risky life style in Naija. Case close
She gets mind oo
I wont buy nor sell if I have excess, I would give it out for charity to help kids who needs it
Weird
Atleast she tried d breast milk bank
Ewwww! I guess dos old men felt it will make dem stay longer on earth or something otherwise why wld dey want to take breast milk.its wired though
Funny her boyfrnd would have been latching it
Nothing we no go hear
God forbid evil….dis white Pple I don tire for una