Hong Kong company turns breast milk into jewellery for new mums
It’s important parents cherish moments with their child, say mothers behind company making pendants, bangles and beads from clients’ breast milk
Hongkonger Kola Hsu wanted something special to commemorate the birth of her first child. So she had her breast milk made into a pendant for a necklace.
“My daughter Hoi Sen was born in 2015. She’s my first child and I really wanted to mark the occasion with something special, with a keepsake,” says Hsu. “It took a long time to find something to use with my breast milk for recording this moment. Finally I found them.”
“Them” is Love Made Me, the Hong Kong company run by two mothers that specialises in creating keepsakes for new mums.
“We were fascinated with the way women’s bodies transformed to provide for their babies,” says one of the two co-founders, who both work full-time and who did not want to disclose their identities. “Breastfeeding is emotional and challenging – and short-lived. Besides taking thousands of photos, we researched and came up with the idea of transforming breast milk into a nice piece of wearable keepsake.”
“A small experiment” attracted a lot of curious inquiries, she says, “and we grew steadily”.
Jewellery made from people’s DNA is nothing new. People have turned the ashes of beloved relatives and friends – and pets – into jewellery and other keepsakes for years.
