would you give this doll to a little girl ?

Veronica - posted on 03/31/2011

p.s. my daughters pretend to breastfeed their dolls already, and we did the same thing when we were little - my son was even trying to 'breastfeed' the dolls too - too darn cute and hilarious ;) People..

Veronica - posted on 03/31/2011

Saw this before - I think its fine - what IS the big deal? I think it would be more "offensive" or not right - if the halter top had fake breasts on it - that would be where the line would need to be drawn - these are little flowers - and the doll isn't literally suckling of the girl, either -- People need to quit sexualizing breasts/breastfeeding and get over their selves already.

Casey - posted on 03/31/2011

I don't have problem with it, breastfeeding is a perfectly natural thing and I don't see any difference between a doll that drinks a bottle and a doll that breast feeds, I dunno if I would buy one for my own child and each to their own and if you don't like it then don't buy it :)

Stifler's - posted on 03/31/2011

That's what I mean, they might think it's not gross and who really cares if there's actual toys out there.

Caitlin - posted on 03/31/2011

I wouldn't buy the doll because it's expensive.. I think it's a great idea to try to normalize breastfeeding, but I too am wierded out by these plastic dolls that eat, burp, fart, pee and poo.. I like the old fashioned toys.. My daughter used to walk around with her stuffed cow and put a diaper on it, rock it to sleep (she still puts it down for "naps" when I put her sister down to sleep, and will shush me if i'm being too loud because "Moo is asleep") She's pretended to nurse it too.. Don't see the need for the doll, I see a need for the normalization of breastfeeding.

Charlie - posted on 03/31/2011

It may not change people already set in their ways but it may grow a new generation of children who see breastfeeding as normal and nothing to hide or be ashamed of .

Keli - posted on 03/31/2011

@emma
How would a doll like this change minds on those who think breast feeding gross?
Seeing a child attached to a piece of plastic seeing this fake head move around doing the motions a real baby would ,wouldn't change a persons mind on breastfeeding in general.its just not for everyone. those who choose to be breastfed dont deserve to be judged.i give them alot of credit. i didnt choose to breastfeed because it just wasnt fo rme i didnt feel passionate about it.

Stifler's - posted on 03/31/2011

I live in Aus too. I would have punched someone who said that to me. LOL. I'm not violent or anything...

A lot of people my age are like "ew breastfeeding... I'd never do that". I got a lot of support when bottle feeding but none when I wanted to breastfeed, people think it's not big deal and who'd want to do that and who really cares. As soon as I was having problems it was "just buy some formula". That's why I like this doll. And would totally buy it.

Charlie - posted on 03/31/2011

Diedre I too am fro Australia and am so shocked to hear that happened HERE where thousands of women sunbake on bondi beach DAILY topless , we are one of the cruisiest countries out there and stil this mentality is still lurking .

Deidre - posted on 03/31/2011

Thanks gals. It was pretty weird. I live in Australia where it's a lot more acceptable to do it in public. It was a bit off putting I must say. @Keli, the doll is very unrealistic at that, and I suppose it's another marketing scam from the big companies seeing that kids play MOM like that anyways. It's the fact that so many people have been getting outraged for the completely wrong reason.

Stifler's - posted on 03/31/2011

Some people are just ferals. I'm sorry you had to put up with that Deirdre!

Keli - posted on 03/31/2011

@Deidre
That is horrific that someone can single you out and call you disgusting for feeding your baby. sorry you had to go through that.
as i mentioned before im totally breast feeding friendly.im not against breast feeding.I just dont care for the doll idea!

Charlie - posted on 03/31/2011

That is horrible and totally immature Deidre , fourtuinately I have never had that happen , in fact people would always walk up to me while I was feeding my boys and start having a chat or comment on how beautiful it was to see me feeding my boys and how cute they were , men and women were always very comfortable and complimentary of my nursing in public.

Deidre - posted on 03/31/2011

When are people going to stop treating Breastfeeding as something barbaric!! This doll is an example of how things in this world have so completely gotten out of perspective. It's natural to give a child a plastic gun and pretend shoot somebody with it but playing mom and learning how to feed your baby naturally is not?? I was flying through the States during Christmas last year and I needed to feed my baby. There were no nursing stations at this particular airport and I had to feed her in a corner away from prying eyes. I had a woman who made it her business to go out of her way and walk up to me and say, " That is disgusting, how can you do that in front of people." My husband and I were so shocked that we had nothing to say back to her. Has anyone else had this happen to them? If they did, they know how absolutely horrified you feel afterward. This is a great doll and it's much more pleasant than hearing one FART!

Charlie - posted on 03/31/2011

*eye roll*



Lady jane said : I definitely would not buy this doll. A child simply can not actually breastfeed a baby. They can bottle feed them, change their diapers, but they can't physically breastfeed.



and your point is ?? Children cannot physically be puppy dogs or fly like a super hero or drive trucks ......it is called imagination , children use it ALL THE TIME , in fact it is a major part of child development , imagination is something a lot of adults have seemed to have lost touch with and are set in crushing it in children .



The main reasoning i see here against it is people thinking it is age innapropriate or somehow sexual or will lead to thinking about a sexual act but in reality you are projecting your own adult ideas onto children .

As for wondering where children come from Im sorry but that is a fact of life one , the entire class (4-5year olds) discussed this when I was pregnant and teaching , they came out with some amazing ideas like "daddy plants a little seed in mummy's belly button " and " when mummy and daddy love each other the love makes magic and a baby comes out "

one boy even said " it's when the sperm meets the mummies egg "





Children aren't going to become deviants because they are curious or educated although the same can't be said for children who are forced to supress their natural curiosity .

Kathy - posted on 03/31/2011

Yes. And to a little boy. And dolls with bottles. But with me it's all academic because i wouldn't pay that price!

Laura Zoey - posted on 03/31/2011

It's hilarious when Eric throws his doll on the floor and then proceeds to say baby owwie! Ohh baby owwie and hugs it and pretends to cry for it and rubs it's legs or arms etc where it's owie is! They don't need a toy band aid or toy casts to play!

Daniela - posted on 03/31/2011

I find all dolls that imitate bodily functions creepy. If I thought my daughter would really love it and if it was cheaper (substantially cheaper!), I would still buy it though. There is nothing wrong with it as such. As it stands my 19 months old is happily nursing stuffed dogs, cats, bears and babies - or holding them up to my breast while nursing on the other. She also puts them on the potty, puts nappies on them and rocks them to sleep. Kids don't really need expensive gadgets to play make-believe.

Laura Zoey - posted on 03/31/2011

I'm all for kids seeing breastfeeding as the normal way to feed a baby, but I don't think dolls that have petals for nipples is the way to do it. I think better idea is to just stop making dolls with bottles! And let the kids see their moms, aunts, cousins, etc actually breast feeing their babies!
Petals for nipples on a bikini top, that's just weird and unnatural.
Let's get it natural, and away from bottles and petals!

Keli - posted on 03/31/2011

well im glad to see im not alone with this doll being a little over the top.lol

Rosie - posted on 03/31/2011

no i wouldn't buy it. it creeps me out, not sure why since it's a natural thing. the dolls that pee and poo don't bug me, but for some reason this type of doll does.
i would not have a problem with my child imitating breastfeeding. i think it's the fake nipple pedals on this contraption that creep me out.

Becky - posted on 03/31/2011

Lottie breastfeeds her dolls and her rabbit, The flower 'nipple" is a bit weird and the burping is yucky, so no i wouldn't buy it, but i would let her play with someone else's
What i would never let her play with is a bottle of synthetic milk and a doll!

Laura Zoey - posted on 03/31/2011

I wouldn't buy it, my kids have real nipples if they wish to pretend to feed their toys! And Eric is 2, he hasn't pretended to breastfeed his dolls, even though he plays with them every day for quite a while! But he does bring them to me and have ME breastfeed them! He is quite smart and he loves body parts so by now he knows he has nipples and mom has boobs. He hasn't tried to bf his dolls cuz you need boobs like mom to do that.
If he did pretend to bf, I'd think it's perfectly adorable and appropriate. He is still bf now, and he knows when the baby comes out of mom the baby eats from moms boobs.
It's NOT sexual! It's not sexual that he knows girls have vulvas and boys have penises. First off breasts aren't sexual organs, and secondly until your kid knows that the genitals create babies hey don't know what sex is, so nothing is sexual to them yet.
I would not let him play with dolls with bottles, I don't want him thinking that babies eat from bottles any more then he will see out in the world. Honestly, I don't think I'd buy hm any motorized babies, creepy and I'd like him to use his brain, not just batteries!

LadyJane - posted on 03/31/2011

I definitely would not buy this doll. A child simply can not actually breastfeed a baby. They can bottle feed them, change their diapers, but they can't physically breastfeed.



I was breastfed but I never pretended to breastfeed my dolls, neither did my daughter and yes she has seen me feed her brother, but she wasn't interested in imitating that.



Too me a breastfeeding doll just isn't age appropriate. Only an adult mother can breastfeed. Yes, I'd teach them it's much healthier but it isn't something I'd want to see them doing as a child.

Alexis - posted on 03/31/2011

I have seen young girls and even boys mimic moms breastfeeding in play, just like they mimic other things they see, but I don't think I would buy this doll. I also won't buy a doll that pees, or burps....my child has an imagination and can use a simple doll or stuffed animal and pretend to burp it, put it on the potty or even breastfeed it if they so desire.

Laura - posted on 03/31/2011

Ok I said this in the other thread, my 4 almost 5 year old SON "breastfed" his stuffed elephant this weekend because he sees me feeding his baby brother. There is nothing wrong with it. If you want to spend that much money on something that will probably get broke (at least my kids toys do) more power to you but they don't need a doll to imitate breastfeeding. AND THERE IS NOTHING SEXUAL ABOUT IT!!!

Ashley=) - posted on 03/31/2011

I agree Marina 100%.:-)

~♥Little Miss - posted on 03/31/2011

Mel, I agree, I find this doll disturbing also. It freaks me out when dolls cry, wet, and now breastfeeding. I am breastfeeding my 11 month old still., and to see a doll trying to imitate such an intimate act between mother and child bothers me. It is a doll, just cause you can make it shit its pants, piss, suck a bottle or imitate breasfeeding doesn't mean you should. I would prefer kids use their imaginations. They see you doing it, and can fake along with a doll and not the noises from a battery operated voice box with its mouth sucking in sync to it. It bothers me.

Ashley=) - posted on 03/31/2011

Well my daughter puts her doll to her chest and i did not b'f her.She watched my sister do it for 2&a half years with her child.I have no problem with it or with dolls and bottles etc.I don't see the point in making any issues over stuff like this.

I like the doll on the market but its expensive.Many kids who are b/f will automatically put there doll to there chest, its all the know.This way its not so expensive lol.

Its so funny my niece got a doll for xmas and as all kids do they don't like to keep the outfit on.She said"mommy boobies" when she saw the dolls boobies, i think it was a barbie.Her mom looked back again, she was trying to b/f from the dolls boob.She was not long off the breast..so funny.:-)

April - posted on 03/31/2011

Well what Krista said. A child can pretend to breastfeed ANY doll and I would encourage it. I don't want my children to think that babies need bottles and pacifiers. In fact, my son has played with dolls before that have come along with bottles. I told him that that is not how Mommy fed you and he started nursing the doll. I think the product is nice, while I wouldn't spend that much. I grew up feeding bottles to my dolls, thinking that was what women were supposed to do. I think this product can help break down the stereotype of babies with bottles. You see pictures of babies with bottles and pacis everywhere. When was the last time you saw a "congrats on your new bundle of joy" card with a picture of a nursing baby?

Minnie - posted on 03/31/2011

I wouldn't buy it, simply because neither of my girls are into dolls. They're both a bit of tomboys. My five year old is into legos, bugs and frogs and my 2 1/2 year old is obsessed with cats. She routinely nurses her beanie baby kittens.



Dolls freak me out. Breastfed or bottle fed, lol.



Yeesh! $100?

Jenn - posted on 03/31/2011

I wouldn't buy the doll because I prefer my kids use their imagination and I try to stay away from toys that do things. As far as pretending to breastfeed dolls though - even my son would "nurse" his teddy bear when he saw me breastfeeding his twin sisters - I don't see what the big deal is at all.

Mabel - posted on 03/31/2011

Lets keep this debate a clean one please and no bashing each other for the dolls sake, what would people say....

Pia - posted on 03/30/2011

I wouldn't buy it. No way would i spend that much money for my children to do something that they could do with their other toys!!
I have no problem with my kids pretending to breastfeed, or pretending to act like adults in any manner. Kids mimic, and kids learn through play.
I don't oppose the doll at all, if you've got the money to spend on it then go for it!!

Nikkole - posted on 03/30/2011

I think breastfeeding is good but i would NEVER buy a doll for $100 that is just insane to me! Why can't kids just use there imagination's anymore lol?

Emily - posted on 03/30/2011

Theresa - I really never thought they would get to this point. They started when my older boy was 4 with how does the baby get out, but I guess I answered it too well. They were done asking that one and moved rapidly on to how they get in there in the first place. "God puts them in there" was obviously a cop-out, and they called me on it. "But how does He put it in there?" was the immediate response. Simple answers are never accepted. :P

They're still at the stage where even sleeping beauty's kiss grosses them out, but they want these details????? ::smacks forehead on desk::

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

i realise they Imitate things.but you can Imitate breastfeeding just by simply holding any regular doll (that doesnt cost $100) to your chest. but they went the extra mile with this particular doll by making it more human like! which is just odd.!

Stifler's - posted on 03/30/2011

Most things kids play imitate grown up things. Playing cars, tea parties, cops and robbers...

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

Deanna i do not have a stick up my ass. i simply have an opinion just as you. i dont criticise you for liking the doll so dont judge me for not.

Mel - posted on 03/30/2011

I do think its a little disturbing to watch that video. No idea why, I just think thats an adult thing that kids dont do. If they want to do that they can pretnd iwth thier own dolls as my daughter does without having a specific breast feeding doll. Not really related but on the tubie site for tube fed kids someone had a doll made with a button for feeding so the girl could feed the doll how she was fed. At first I thought it was a little wrong and stupid but then i understood

Teresa - posted on 03/30/2011

Emily... do what I do.... get a book. lol! We have 'Where Did I Come From?' and I think that part is covered... at least somewhat.

You know, my girls imitated breastfeeding when all their little friends were getting baby brothers/sisters (they were 2), they asked how they got out of Mommy at 3, asked how other babies get out (since they were c-section) at 5, and still.... NEVER asked how the kid gets in there in the first place. That's why I got them the books at 8. ;)

Deanna - posted on 03/30/2011

Yes I would. I think people that have anything against it need to remove the stick from the a$$.

Emily - posted on 03/30/2011

LOL... well... I'm afraid kids will wonder where babies come from whether you are pretending to breastfeed or not. Having a doll at all would trigger that question. Then again, being alive will trigger that question. My sons never pretended to breastfeed anything, nor do they play with dolls... but I get asked all sorts of tough questions, that are getting trickier and trickier to answer. Someone please tell how to explain to 7 and 9 year old boys "how does the sperm get out of the Daddy's penis", because that is the latest conundrum. =O I'm not ready to explain orgasms to them, but "it just comes out" is not being accepted. :P



That being said, there's no way I'd buy the doll. It seems, I don't know... creepy. I like dolls that don't do anything. It leaves more options for the child.

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

exactly april...i read other reviews on the web about the doll,and the woman was against the doll for the simple fact,her daughter would act as if shes breastfeeding then the thoughts of sex would enter her mind.beacuse where do babies come from? lol. and again im not trying to make "breastfeeding" a sexual act.im just expressing thats how babies are made...by a sexual act.!

April - posted on 03/30/2011

I wouldn't buy that doll for my daughter, she has such a huge imagination i know she'll be able to reenact that with her own normal stuffed toys, but i see no problem with it. I used to pretend to breastfeed when i was a little girl LOL, but sadly i never got the chance to when i became a mother :(

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

I am not opposed too a child pretending to bottle feed.because alot of children do bottle feed real babies,i have a 3 year old niece who has fed my 4 month son because she can hold a bottle. thats just the point i was trying to make woman (mothers) do the breastfeeding. because they are the only ones who can. i have mixed feelings about the doll, to be used as a toy i dont think i would like but as someone else has mentioned it could be a good teaching source,if you have a child around 3 or 4 and a baby that the child can see breastfed and they wonder whats going on,sure the doll can be used as a teaching method. if you feel strongly about making your kids aware of breastfeeding and all the good qualities of it.

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

thank you tonya. I do agree with some of the arguments on why the doll is good,Yes promoting breastfeeding is good,and it would be a good cultral switch.to make breastfeeding more friendly so babies can have the best milk possible. and i dont have anything against anyone that does buy the doll.i just think its an odd toy.especially for the price!

Charlie - posted on 03/30/2011

That could be a reason why you feel that way Keli , absolutely .

I disagree that it may be a turn on for pedophiles though , pedophiles are attracted to children , not children acting as women , disgustingly enough the more child like the more appealing having breasts would not be childlike and would not be attractive I would think .
I guess the whole point of baby dolls IS to be human , they are a lesson in empathy and nurturing , personally I dont see the need for nipple thingies to play pretend any baby doll will do even my son once pretended to breastfeed a teddy bear ( he was two and just doing what mummy was doing ) .

May I ask with all respect are you opposed to children pushing toy prams or bottle feeding their doll or is it exclusively the idea that they are pretending to feed from a breast ?

( sorry I don't mean to single you out just curious : )

Mabel - posted on 03/30/2011

@keli actually I think you have a good point about the pervs.I look around at the way these girls are dressing I have to wonder how a man who is not thinking in the best interest of a kid would be turned on by this doll.YUCK!

Keli - posted on 03/30/2011

and another thing. i wasnt breastfed as a baby and i didnt choose to breastfeed my baby. Maybe if i had i would be more for this doll. but since i wasnt braught up with breastfeeding maybe thats why i feel differently?
Another concern to me would be the Pedophiles out there.one would love to sit there and see a young girl acting as if she had breasts and were breastfeeding let dolls be toys,they shouldnt make it so human like...