A new mum has shared images of her drinking her own breast milk after the hotel freezer where she planned to store it for her baby broke down.

Jemie Lim, 29 – from Singapore – had contacted the hotel in Hokkaido, Japan, to warn them that she would be freezing batches of expressed breast milk.

But when she realised the freezer had broken down, she decided to drink the lot herself rather than throw it away.

Determined not to waste it, she said that she persevered even though it tasted disgusting.

She said: “When fresh it doesn’t taste much although it’s a little bit on the sweet side, but after being partially frozen, it smelled of fish and it was so disgusting, I was almost sick.”

However, she persevered and even shared footage of herself drinking her own milk in various places around the region while on the trip.

In the end, she gulped down nearly four and a half litres of the stuff, sharing the videos on TikTok with the message: “I drank 4450ML of my own breastmilk in Hokkaido.”

She added: “I am not a milk person, I don’t drink milk at all. Only drank some during pregnancy because my gynaecologist said my baby needs calcium.”