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Thanks Missi (and others!) Controversial Doll Lets Little Girls Pretend to Breast-Feed
I’m not sure why they had to include the little vest with the flower ‘pasties’ but heyI can’t figure out what’s going on with people nowadays anyways. I mean, what’s up with the comments? (ooops, don’t read them, you really don’t want to ruin your day;o) but here’s a comic! throw the bottle away!
xox,
Heather
[...] This comic is related to this talk, talk, talk: the breastfeeding doll! [...]
My daughter did that anyway, when I was nursing her baby sister! She sat right beside me on the couch, pulled up her shirt, and nursed her favorite baby doll. What’s so “traumatizing” about that? We’ve talked about how she drank milk from Mommy’s boobies when she was little, but now she’s bigger and doesn’t need to. No trauma. How can something totally natural and normal be traumatizing? It’s not any grosser than changing the baby doll’s diaper because she “went poopie”.
I remember breastfeeding my baby dolls , in my family that’s the only way babies were fed. Even my male cousin tried to nurse a baby doll! I find it absolutely crazy that breastfeeding is deemed a disgusting sexual act but Paris Hilton and Brittany spears are common acceptable role models. And saying breastfeeding is anywhere close to sexual education and will encourage girls to get pregnant sooner. Puh-leeeeeease!
I’m really looking forward to the day my little girl nurses her doll and carries it in a sling.
I think the dolls that pee and poo are far more disgusting!
when i was a child, i “nursed” my cabbage patch doll, emulating my mom nursing my little sister. there’s alot of women on the tampa momslikeme website bitching about the doll, i just wanted to scream obscenities at them, but decided not to, since i already know i’m not really welcome there, as a crunchy mom. what is wrong with people? i’m really REALLY confused as to why people behave this way…
lol, the comic is PERFECT!
The only “bottles” in our house are with our potty training dolls. My lil gal showed me! Turns out you can spoon feed baby born & she still goes, lol! Dipes on her baby, she flings them (even though she uses them) she nurses them. or asks me to. No slinging yet probably because I don’t have 1 her size! She’s a great lil mommy always wrapping up her babies & carrying them, hard to believe she’s not even 2 yet, lol! oh & she SHAMES her big brothers when it comes to chores, ahh sibling rivalry, who’d have know it would be this beneficial?!
The doll, a no go, to hard on tender skin imho.
oh the sensors you mean? the flowers are sensors.
LOL! The baby comes with a paci, of course.
My five year old daughter nurses her dolls, and when she uses the bottles, she “pumps” milk into them by putting them under her shirt and gives me the bottle and baby to watch while she goes away for a little while. I babysit real babies, and some of them breastfeed, so she’s seen pumping, nursing and all that. I think one of these days I’ll pretend the baby won’t take the bottle, like she wouldn’t take one, and then she’ll have to come back to nurse the baby early.
She still remembers nursing too. (insert warm fuzzies) I’ve heard of toddler boys nursing their toys too. Toy lizards, it doesn’t matter.
I actually think the doll is a little silly. I don’t like the dolls that make noises and stuff and it seems it’s just asking for “controversy.” But it’s fun to see the reactions.. like that the doll will lead to earlier pregnancy by excelerating the maternal drive. That’s so funny! We could prevent teenage pregnancies altogether by banning all baby dolls. Teddy bears too just to be safe. Stupid. “Comma.” (Quoting Mountains Beyond Mountains because I just read it.)
Huh? My girls have “BFed” their Groovy Girls, their teddy bears, and their fairy doll. They have also “given birth” to at least one of them. You don’t need a special doll for that!
I loved the part about traumatizing and promoting teen pregnancy. So does that mean I have traumatized my children by breastfeeding their younger siblings in front of them for 8 of the last 13 years? I only stopped breastfeeding my youngest earlier this year and his older sisters are 5, 7, 10, and 13. I actually thought that letting tweens and teens experience life with a real baby may help prevent teen pregnancy. They see more than just the “How cute!” part of it and instead have to help rock baby when mom is exhausted or change diapers or get him dressed, etc. My oldest says she only wants one child when she grows up. She knows how much work it is.
And they all nursed their dollies even without flower pasties and gulping noises. They provided the gulping noises themselves.
I will never forget the time i was working a short bit. My daughter was then about 20 months old and she was very much in to lifting her shirt to nurse her dolls. She was still nursing at the time and I was telling a co-worker about how cute it was when she did that. The look on her face was so strange and she said, “now where on earth would she see that?” I just laughed, then paused realizing how serious the woman was and said, “well, she nurses everyday!”
I have had two boys since and they like to nurse their babies about that age also : )
I personally think we are nurturing our children into being nurturing parents themselves!
you know, I don’t get what the big deal is… I think it’s a great doll for girls on the older end of the spectrum who want something more realistic, but I have to say that the whole purpose of dolls is to encourage imagination, and I don’t know if that’s possible with all the batteries that make dolls not only yield noises and movements, but also make them heavier and (depending on the doll) more rigid.
I think the best kind of doll is often one of the simplest… that with a soft body, simple features that have it look like a baby, but yet also resemble a baby in it’s softness.
I have to agree that any doll can be a nursing doll… my oldest son played with a doll for a few months when I had his brother… and he nursed it as I did his brother… he was under 2, so he didn’t lift his shirt to do so, but he nursed it, burped it, rocked it, kissed it, and had it swaddled in a blanket.
But the part that has me up in arms is not another company doing whatever it takes to suck as much money as they can out of consumers.
No, it lies with the ridiculous people who seem to think that breastfeeding a doll is going to make girls want to get pregnant… that dolls are only for girls, since they aren’t worried about boys with these dolls, and that they are the same thing as the OTHER dolls they suggested could be made.
Please… any child will imitate what they see… and that means they will imitate the way they see babies fed, held, and treated.
I do not think that this is an adult theme… nay, it is, at best, trying to give children a more discrete way (other than lifting up or outright removing their shirts) to pretend to breastfeed in a world that is sadly filled with some very sick people and, at worst, is trying to make a company some money.
I remember one of the last dolls I had my mother buy me… and I had to really beg to get it… it was a doll that actually gave birth (the baby could be placed inside it and pulled out… not extremely realistic, but very cool)…
it did not make me want to get pregnant, but it was cool to play with, when I was pretending to be a doctor.
The last post was excellent. How IS this different then an “alive” doll of any other type?
I have a story about a friend’s daughter and a nursing infant. It was so hard to tell her she COULDN’T copy the baby’s mother. (she kept sneaking into the nursery during naptime to “Try”) I DID explain the basics though, & why she had to wait to feed a REAL baby. I just didn’t understand her going through pain just because the adults in the house hadn’t bothered to explain things to her. There is no such age as too young. There is such a thing as under informed.
How on earth would this make girls want to have babies more than a regular doll? I know girls tend to love babies and dolls, and dream of having their own. That seems to be a natural thing. Breastfeeding is just a way to feed the babies! The stuff people said about the doll just made me so irritated! Having said that, I think the doll is just a gimmick and not particularly useful as a toy.
I know I’m speaking to the choir here! Like others, my older son was nursed for years and has watched me nurse his little brother, who is 3.5 and nearly done nursing (his choice). It’s just how we feed and nurture little ones in our family and it is something my boys see as normal!
I breastfed my dolls and then my kids. My boys have been nursed and watched many other mamas breastfeed. It’s normal to me and them. If this is supposed to be gross or odd, how sad for us.
Kat_mom- You are right about the doodads that they put on dolls making them not half as good. My mom bought my daughter a baby doll for her second birthday and went nearly crazy trying to find one that was just soft and cute! She didn’t want it to “do” anything, or be bigger than my child, or require batteries. She did finally find one, and that sweet little doll continues to be my daughter’s best friend, two and a half years later! The simple things are the best!
my nearly 3 yr old son nurses ME. and daddy, and his stuffed animals.
obviously i’m turning him gay.
*sigh*
I found out my mom makes these plain white fabric dolls but embroideres the long cotton gown realy ornate for the older grandaughters as keep sake dolls when they are older. I asked her to give me a simple one now, they were so perfect for the new baby I cannot wait to get it when she is done.
Have you seen the electronic gizmo that aids in “sleep training” and tells you if your baby has cried long enough? If anything should be called harmful to kids, THAT should be! http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3393884
MMom – I am not going to look at it but it sounds crazy! ANY amount of time a baby cries without someone checking on him/her is too long!
MMom.. Thanks for sharing. Holy crap. It was just a matter of time. One review mentions how the “cool web interface” helped them with the “cry it out” method. I know folks use technology and the internet for help with parenting, but this just epitomizes what technology is doing to destroy our affect. Good lord.
Humm, so is nursing a toy truck going to turn my daughter into a teen auto mechanic? Oh the horror.
Seriously, my daughter has breastfed every doll and stuffed animal she has (it’s always funny seeing your daughter nurse a panda). The only difference between this doll and any other doll is that this one is specifically marketed for breastfeeding. The $10 doll I got her from Target didn’t even come with a bottle, if you wanted that, you had to buy it seperate.
My little boy (who will be 2 years old in November) nurses monkeys, duplo dolls, bears on memory cards… I think it’s really sweet but I don’t believe other people realize what he’s doing when they see it
I work full-time now and the first thing he wants when I come back from the job is still his “dzudzu”, somehow that helps us not to miss each other so much. His father has to learn German yet and doesn’t work at the moment, so I’m responsible for the family income.
How can people be so scared of lactating breasts?
The Flowers on the halter have magnets…when you place the Doll at “The Breast” it calms and makes a Sucking noise.