Would you wear jewellery made from breast milk?
Mother-of-four, Alison Hawthorn, who was nursing her twin sons during lockdown last year decided to try her hand at making a “keepsake” using her own breast milk.
While breast milk jewellery isn’t anything new, Hawthorn’s first successful trinket, a keyring, inspired her to make more and offer her service to other moms.
According to Keepsake Mom, breast milk jewellery is a baby keepsake, symbolizing the intimacy of the breastfeeding bond between you and your child and celebrating the wonderful you’ve accomplished as a mother.
When Alison Hawthorn shared images of her keyring trinket on social media, she was flooded with requests from people to make different pieces.
“I had quite a few different people contacting me asking if I could do things like hair in pieces and different pieces of breast milk things, and I’d try and accommodate their needs” Alison told the Daily Mail.
However, not all feedback was good.
“When I first started, someone screenshotted one of my posts and put it on a roasting page on Facebook, and they were majorly slagging it off and there were some really vile comments” says the mom.
Alison has since expanded her business to make jewellery from ashes, pet fur and human hair.
Sources: IOL
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