Breast Feeding Doll?

[trumpetbum]

DD2 asked for it but we couldn't get a hold of it. Tbh she always held her dolls to her chest when she was wee anyway, this is really just a breastfeeding version of those freaky dolls that look like they're gulping down their bottles. I don't see anything sexual about it whatsoever.
Baby expressions etc freak me out but my kids loved them. Give me a sweet ordinary baby doll any day that takes no batteries.

hahah yeah my DH walkd pass a doll @ the store and it came on saying "play with me" geez those freak me out!

Aaaaagh that's terrifying

 

[celestek89]

I dont know, i think it's taking it a bit too far tbh! But i personally find baby dolls a little creapy anyways! haha!

 

[ItsMagic]

IMO it's inappropriate. I mean, nothing wrong with breastfeeding, as I plan on doing so, but for a young girl to do it, I think is inappropriate. She should not know such things at a young age, or believe it's normal for her age. A girl playing with dolls does not even have developed breasts yet.

 

[ClangerBabies]

I know its natural but sex is and that is part of the baby making process so maybe if we encourage one thing we shouldnt exclude the other to be fair, so i wouldnt like it for that reason.
Also there is nothing wrong with formular feeding wh should we push our kids to do either?
I played with dolls when i was little and it didn't automatically mean i would formular feed.

Tbh i wont discorage either, i think my children should be allowed to make their own choices. And personally i wont preach anything to them that doesn't affect another persons well being.

 

[Bingo]

I don't see a problem with it as little children will often play pretend and breastfeed dolls or teddies etc.

I think the little top with flowers at the nipples would cause a few raised eyebrows if a little girl were to wear it out in public, let alone lift one to pretend to feed her 'baby'.

 

[bubbles]

I think there are far more inappropriate things on the market for young girls. I really do wish that people would stop comparing breastfeeding to sex, there is no comparison to be made. Sex is an act that 2 adults participate in for pleasure/to reproduce, breastfeeding is something a MOTHER does to feed and nourish her child. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
As for this doll I can see the concept behind it but for me I don't see a need. Any dolls my LO gets that come with a bottle will have the bottle removed. It will be normal for both my children that babies are breastfed and I certainly won't raise them to think of breasts as a sexual thing

 

[Cantwait1]

Definitely not- children, girls esp are way too over sexualised in he western society- clothing and makeup that they are targetted is OTT in the first place. Children need to be allowed to fully experience childhood without adulthood encroaching on them. In england there are loads of stories of tweenies deliberately trying to get pregnant, which is shocking enough as it is. A doll like this won't help.

 

[gemabee]

very weird!!!
i think its extremely innappropriate.
i agree that we should do somethin to make sure that breastfeedin is viewed as more natural (esp considerin my mum keeps tellin me its weird nd disgustin nd she doesn't want me gettin my boobs out around her!!)... but surely there are other ways?
if our children are breastfed... automatically they will view it as more natural??

 

[trumpetbum]

IMO it's inappropriate. I mean, nothing wrong with breastfeeding, as I plan on doing so, but for a young girl to do it, I think is inappropriate. She should not know such things at a young age, or believe it's normal for her age. A girl playing with dolls does not even have developed breasts yet.

Why is it inappropriate to mimic the natural action of feeding a baby. We give little girls baby's with bottles all the time and little girls with breastfeeding mums naturally mimic holding the baby to the breast. Should we take baby dolls away because little girls do not have reproductive systems yet, should we be outraged when little girls put cushions up their tops to mimic mummy's pregnancy. We don't generally discourage these things yet we find something abnormal in a child pretending to breastfeed?

I just think that adults are projecting something onto innocent roleplay that just doesd not exist.

 

[Dragonfly]

well it seemed ok for years for girls to play with dolls and prams with bottles so why not show them breatsfeeding? nothing to be ashamed of and it shouldnt be the hidden choice. I always thought babies had only one choice and that was formula and bottles as all my dolls came with bottles. I would want my daughter if i had one to know about breastfeeding. I do not find it weird as breastfeeding is not sexual to me and normalising it is fine with me to.

 

[trumpetbum]

Definitely not- children, girls esp are way too over sexualised in he western society- clothing and makeup that they are targetted is OTT in the first place. Children need to be allowed to fully experience childhood without adulthood encroaching on them. In england there are loads of stories of tweenies deliberately trying to get pregnant, which is shocking enough as it is. A doll like this won't help.

Isn't it a bit of a jump between sexualisation of children and breastfeeding a baby doll? Doesn't this imply that breastfeeding is a sexual act? How is mimicing breastfeeding more inclined to encourage premature sex/pregnancy as opposed to pushing baby dolls around in prams and pretending to be mummy which most of us here will have done and enjoyed as children. Are my children more likely to be teenage mothers because they lifted their baby dolls to their chests to mimic me than I would have been when I pretended to feed my dolls from a bottle to mimic my mum??

Call me obtuse but I'm missing the logic here.

 

[EmyDra]

In two minds about this now...

As a child I never really played with dolls but when playing with other toys and making some of them parents to other toys I usually mimed breastfeeding.
I've always been aware of it and that's why I don't see it as at all sexual now. No adults discouraged or hid it away from me and if I pretended to breastfeed dolls that's fine.

I dont think I like the idea of my child with boobies on her when shes still so young - simply because I think she would want to keep them on all the time to 'be like mummy', rather than just popping on the boobs to feed the baby.

It sounds odd, but I think I would rather give a 'handheld breast' than actually see a child wearing boobs.

Don't think it encourages early pregnancy, thats crazy. That's like saying every girl who enjoys having a doll to play with is going to have a baby early - why does it make a difference the way she 'pretends' to feed it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYoZVroBZs

That's a demo...I actually think it looks kind of cute, it looks pretend but its a step closer towards breastfeeding yeah that's be swayed I think. The strap ons arent strap ons

 

[Dragonfly]

Definitely not- children, girls esp are way too over sexualised in he western society- clothing and makeup that they are targetted is OTT in the first place. Children need to be allowed to fully experience childhood without adulthood encroaching on them. In england there are loads of stories of tweenies deliberately trying to get pregnant, which is shocking enough as it is. A doll like this won't help.

A breastfeeding doll will help get young girls preg? what about the ones with bottles with them?
d0es that discourage them?

 

[aob1013]

I see no problem with it. I think it's great to be encouraging breastfeeding from a young age and to make it seem the normal thing to do kwim?

 

[Dragonfly]

I see no problem with it. I think it's great to be encouraging breastfeeding from a young age and to make it seem the normal thing to do kwim?

I know what you mean only some dont think so as they see it as inappropriate there for making more poeple aware that theres some taboo about breastfeeding from an early age. Its a cycle that wont be broke and because of that there will always be poeple who think its not right.

 

[trumpetbum]

I know its natural but sex is and that is part of the baby making process so maybe if we encourage one thing we shouldnt exclude the other to be fair, so i wouldnt like it for that reason.

What? Peeing is natural. children 'potty train' No more tears and have done for many years now. Did we make the jump from potty training that doll to simulating sex??
I can't for the life of me see someone buying baby glouton and then thinking? Hmmm, we should probably now show our children how to have sex.

Also there is nothing wrong with formular feeding wh should we push our kids to do either?
I played with dolls when i was little and it didn't automatically mean i would formular feed.

How is a breastfeeding doll pushing one over the other, but bottle feeding a doll is not? You can buy every shape and size of bottle feeding battery operated doll for children, what is so wrong about the equivalent breastfeeding doll for those children for whom that is the norm. Does owning this doll mean excluding bottle feeding dolls??

Tbh i wont discourage either, i think my children should be allowed to make their own choices. And personally i wont preach anything to them that doesn't affect another persons well being.

and yet this seems so much at odds with the rest of your post, imo.

 

[bubbles]

Definitely not- children, girls esp are way too over sexualised in he western society- clothing and makeup that they are targetted is OTT in the first place. Children need to be allowed to fully experience childhood without adulthood encroaching on them. In england there are loads of stories of tweenies deliberately trying to get pregnant, which is shocking enough as it is. A doll like this won't help.

The parents are as much to blame as the shops and the media for allowing the products to be purchased thus creating a need for the manufacturing in the first place. As for the stories of young girls trying to get pregnant goes, I honestly believe this is down to poor education which again is the parents resposibility and has absolutely nothing to do with girls being given toy dolls to play with whether they come with a bottle or the child mimics breastfeeding. If they didn't have a doll to do it with they would find some sort of life like object to 'mother'

 

[aob1013]

Why there is a taboo about breastfeeding just baffles me!

 

[Dragonfly]

Why there is a taboo about breastfeeding just baffles me!

adults create the taboo not children. shame that. A child cant learn what comes natural because an adult thinks its not appropriate. Well we know the next generations view on breastfeeding will possibly not change anyway.

 

[stacey01]

im going to bf , but i wouldnt buy it for my lo , although im sure she will try and copy me once her baby sister is born with one of her dolls.