Wealthy Chinese are playing £2,000 a month for nurses to give them daily doses of human breast milk as a health food.
Breast milk supplies are big business in China after the country was rocked by a scandal over poisoned baby milk formula.
But now some suppliers say they are expanding to cater for a booming new demand from adult customers.
Breast milk dealer Lin Jun, who runs the Xinxinyu Household Service Company in Guangdong province, explained: "Wealthy people are always busy and their health is at risk from stress and strain. This is a way they can get all the nourishment they need."
For their £2,000 a month clients get a deluxe service, where their personal wet nurse visits their home or office so the customer can get their supply direct from the source.
"For the bashful, we can sell breast milk that has been expressed by a pump," explained Lin.
"This is quite common in my social circle. The younger, prettier wet nurses can charge even more. They are very popular," he added.
But a restaurant which offered a whole menu called the Human Milk Dinner had to scrap the banquet in Changsha, when furious locals complained.
"This is treating human beings like cows," grumbled one.
