Several years ago, TV cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall became somewhat notorious for cooking and eating pate made from placenta.

Now a chef in the US has gone one better in creating food out of the human body – he's used breast milk to create cheese. And he's planning to make more.

What do you think? Just right for a Ploughman's Lunch with a difference, or a taste too far? If it's OK for babies, then why not us?

Chef Daniel Angerer of New York City's Klee Brasserie made the cheese from the breast milk of his wife and business partner, Lori Mason. He told New York Magazine's Grub Street blog: "Being a chef you're curious about anything in terms of flavour – you look out for something new and what you can do with it." He adds: "It wasn't like, 'Hey, this is such an amazing cheese.' It's just like, 'Can you use human milk? Yes, you absolutely can!'"

So what does it taste like?

A mum has been chucked off a bus by the driver for breastfeeding her six-week-old baby, it has been reported.

Amy Wootten, 25, was on her way home in Bristol when she says the driver stopped the bus and told her to stop breastfeeding her daughter Emily.

She objected - as, I imagine, Emily would have done - and he apparently threatened to call the police and accused her of indecent exposure.

She had to get out of the bus in the rain and find a taxi to take her home.

Miss Wootten told the Daily Mail: "The driver told me someone had said I was indecently exposing myself.

"It was like he was suggesting I was doing horrendous things. But I was being quite discreet about it."

"I couldn't believe it. I explained that I was only feeding my baby and not exposing myself and he told me to stop or he would call the police."

Many people presume that children do better if they have a mother and a father - but a new study suggests otherwise.

Researchers are challenging the idea that children without a father are necessarily at a disadvantage.

Sociologist Timothy Biblarz, of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, says: "Significant policy decisions have been swayed by the misconception across party lines that children need both a mother and a father.

"Yet, there is almost no social science research to support this claim. One problem is that proponents of this view routinely ignore research on same-gender parents."

The article in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family examines different studies on parenting.

Judith Stacey of NYU, who carried out the research with Biblarz, said: "That a child needs a male parent and a female parent is so taken for granted that people are uncritical."

The researchers found there was no evidence that mothers and fathers had different parenting abilities - apart from breastfeeding.

Singer Lisa Scott-Lee has been prancing around with her clothes off this week, showing off her "post-baby" body.

For those of you who can't quite place her, apparently she used to be in some kind of pop group called Steps.

Anyway, she's revealed how she lost her baby weight, all two stone of it, within three weeks.

The singer was back in her size eight jeans just three weeks after giving birth to her second child, daughter Star. Yes, really.

Lisa told the Daily Mail she knows people won't necessarily be pleased for her. "I know some women will hate me," she said.

I don't hate you, Lisa. I'm just not sure how you managed it.

Neither, it seems, is she. "They'll assume I've crash dieted, but I really haven't," she told the Daily Mail.

"It's just the way I am and I know I'm extremely lucky. I also think it's down to breastfeeding – it's great for both mum and baby."

Q: I am having a confidence crisis. I am due to give birth in a few weeks' time and I have decided I don't want to breast feed my daughter. I don't know why, I just don't. Does this make me a bad mother?

A: Breast feeding can be the cause of guilt in new mothers. There is an increasing expectation for women to breast feed, and the current advice from the government is to exclusively breast feed your child for at least six months if you can.

As a result, help and advice on breast feeding is, quite rightly, in plentiful supply - but this can make some women feel like there is added pressure, especially if you are planning not to breast feed your baby.

You are not a bad mother for not wanting to breast feed. Some women just don't want to; while other women can't. However, given the unique nutritional benefits of breast milk, perhaps it would be a good idea to keep an open mind on the subject until your baby is born? It could be the case that you change your mind once your baby arrives.

Alternatively, perhaps you could find a compromise? For the first few days after the birth, you will produce a very rich substance called colostrum, which contains antibodies and good bacteria in plentiful supply. These help to prevent illness and infection in very young babies before breast milk takes over at around day three. Some women choose to give their baby colostrum before ceasing breast feeding.

I finally stopped breastfeeding recently – after my daughter decided she wasn't that bothered any more.

She started biting me and refusing to feed. So, I thought, fine, we won't do this any more. She seemed reasonably happy with this and has been going to bed as normal.

But then I started noticing some really strange side-effects.

I was struggling to sleep, even when my daughter wasn't keeping me awake at night. I felt all jittery and tense and wired, like I'd drunk too much coffee.

It didn't even occur to me that the problem might be connected to stopping feeding at first. But after a couple of days I started to wonder.

So I Googled "stop breastfeeding" and "insomnia" and lo and behold, lots of other people had asked the same question!

This, it appears, is yet another thing that people don't tell you about breastfeeding.