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Hard no for me.

I had some breast milk when I had my first kid to see what it tastes like.

It was really really gross. It tasted like it had too much iron. Reminded me of drinking a bloody nose.

No thank you

It can't be iron though, as it's not soluble in milk. In fact, that's the reason why, in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, babies stock iron for the first 4-6 months of (postpartum) life, basically, for all the way up until eating solids, and why pre-term babies have to be supplemented with iron because they didn't have a chance to complete stocking.

I am no biologist, but I recall the taste being like the aftertaste you get after you drink blood

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