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Old 11-08-2007, 12:39 AM
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Default Woman Takes Out Ad To Sell Breast Milk

When it comes to feeding infants, breast milk is best. But what do you do with too much of a good thing? With her freezer overflowing with breast milk she has pumped and her 4-month-old daughter refusing to nurse from a bottle, Martha Heller, 22, of Tiffin, decided to take out a newspaper ad.

"I tried to figure out what to do with it," she said. "I'd much rather a baby use it, because at some point we'll have to throw it away."

Heller said she donates to the University of Iowa-based Mother's Milk Bank of Iowa, but the 100 ounces she is trying to sell — for $200 or the best offer — is what she had pumped beginning in August, before going through the screening...
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Old 11-17-2007, 04:00 PM
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lol, ok then
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Old 11-20-2007, 03:07 PM
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wow, that's . . . . uh . . . . different
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ive heard of this... there are sites online for people to buy it, kinda like ebay i think (ive only been to one after reading a weird online magazine article..lol). according to the article, many of the buyers were men with fetishes!
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