CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A woman who doesn't want her breast milk to go to waste has taken out a newspaper ad in hopes of selling it.
Martha Heller, 22, took out an ad in The Gazette newspaper offering 100 ounces of her breast milk for $200 or the best offer.

Heller said her freezer is overflowing with breast milk she has pumped since August. Her 4-month-old daughter won't drink from a bottle and the supply is piling up.

Heller now donates to the University of Iowa's Mother's Milk Bank, but the 100 ounces of milk she wants to sell were pumped before she went through the screening process for the bank and cannot be donated.

Linda Klein, a lactation consultant at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, said breast milk can generally be stored in a freezer for up to six months.


Heller said she researched laws regarding the sale of breast milk and couldn't find any in Iowa.

Don McCormick, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Public Health, said he was not aware of any laws in Iowa restricting the sale of breast milk, but that state health officials advised against it.

Heller said she hasn't received any legitimate calls about her ad.

"There was one prank caller," she said.

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I had a friend whose co-worker made the family ice cream with her breast milk!!! Needless to say, when my friend was invited over for a picnic with that family she respectfully declined!!!

in iowa no less...hmmmm

I made banana bread with mine. It really freaked some people out....hehe.

i prefer to pump it fresh

Put me down for one...

Seriously in California there is a programme of the hospitals collecting breast milk for premature babies in a breast milk bank.

If I thought the chick was hot I would drink some to see what it was like

Outrageous almost canibalistic

I guess the kid doesn't prefer from the Tap

Oh and make mine skimmed boobie milk...no fat for me!

i love boobie milk just soooooooooooo swettttttttttt

Not me.. It was D-cup Licious !!!

it is vital to keep the flow maintained.
best to not risk engorgement.

engorgement is the devil in disguise grrrrr