What can I say.....THIS IS ONE WEIRD TOY

[Jennasis]

No biggie IMHO.

 

[ma2jr]

Saw this on the "view"... something about it doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Mom2Nick]

If this was produced to help soon-to-be lactating mothers it would be ok. But, the whole idea of simulating adult female bodily functions on an immature female child is just plain disturbing. Isn't the high teen pregnancy rate and social consequences of this sort of thing problematic enough without further romanticizing the notion of child brides? Grrr, it makes me mad because I happen to have a little girl this is targeted at.

Some kids bottle feed their play babies - others have families where all the kids know is that babies drink from mommy. No big deal to me. It's not encouraging teen pregnancy anymore then babies that have bottles or babies that pee and you have to change or babies that come with strollers, a full wardrobe and a crib.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

The only thing that bothers me is the daisy patches. They are quite tacky. But I think the doll is fine. My DD had a baby Chou Chou when she was little who made suckling noises while taking her bottle. No different. It's feeding their baby, most likely how Mommy feeds their baby.

 

[bumbershoot]

Nothing to be outraged or sickened over, but simply totally unnecessary. When my DDs pretended to breastfeed their baby dolls, they just stuck 'em up their shirts - LOL!

Exactly. Just unnecessary. Kids imitate what they know. If they know they were nursed, and especially if they have younger sibs who were/are nursed, that's what they'll imitate. No need for a doll to do anything special.

 

[Mad4Mickey]

uhhhh this wont be sold in the US will it ??
note to self < dont even look in the doll section at Christmas>

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Nothing to be outraged or sickened over, but simply totally unnecessary. When my DDs pretended to breastfeed their baby dolls, they just stuck 'em up their shirts - LOL!

I agree. This post sums it up completely. I was never a big fan of all the mechanical toys out there. Whatever happened to kids just being creative and taking their own initiative (ie, just sticking the doll up their shirts, per the PP).

 

[clarabelle]

Sickening!!

I don't understand. Would you mind telling me why?

 

[DebIreland]

Am I missing something?

I know. I was thinking the same thing.

I don't get why people are so outraged and disgusted.

 

[Laura]

The doll's noises are really weird. DD definitely doesn't sound like that when I breastfeed her.

I'm not a big fan of giving girls dolls that pee or eat or anything like that. I think it's odd. But then, I'm not really a fan of dolls, period.

 

[jaycat]

I have more of a problem with the shirt thing than the doll or its functions...

 

[DeluxePrincess]

The garment the girl has to wear is what disturbs me. Looks like little flower pasties. I think the toy is pretty lame. If a girl wants to pretend she is breastfeeding, she can do that without the tacky shirt and suckling sounds. I also think this toy can be confusing to a young child that does not come from a breastfeeding kind of family.

 

[sandramaac]

I don't find the toy disgusting or vulgar, just plain odd. As the previous poster said, the whole vest and flower pasties thing, the doll making noise. What happened to good old imagination.

 

[merryweather20]

The garment the girl has to wear is what disturbs me. Looks like little flower pasties. I think the toy is pretty lame. If a girl wants to pretend she is breastfeeding, she can do that without the tacky shirt and suckling sounds. I also think this toy can be confusing to a young child that does not come from a breastfeeding kind of family.

I agree! I'd prefer not to give my DD anything with fancy nipples

I saw a couple make the comment that it would be confusing to a non-breastfeeding family on another forum, and I was confused. If it came up woudn't you just explain that some Moms fed babies lie that, and add any age appropriate details I was the youngest in my family but I must have picked up the concept somewhere, because I remember shoving a few dolls up my shirt back in the day

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I saw a couple make the comment that it would be confusing to a non-breastfeeding family on another forum, and I was confused. If it came up woudn't you just explain that some Moms fed babies lie that, and add any age appropriate details I was the youngest in my family but I must have picked up the concept somewhere, because I remember shoving a few dolls up my shirt back in the day

I'm thinking that if a child has no concept of breastfeeding, the flowered nipples might not come across as actual breasts. I would rather a child question me about an actual mom feeding her baby than this strange contraption.

 

[java]

Well my daughter used to play with her dolls as if she was breastfeeding them. She didn't need a special shirt. She just pretended. She was watching me feed her little brother and then - well she sat with her doll doing it too. It was very cute.
That doll is just strange. A little TMI for a doll maybe. And I was a big breastfeeder.

 

[paintnolish]

Well my daughter used to play with her dolls as if she was breastfeeding them. She didn't need a special shirt. She just pretended. She was watching me feed her little brother and then - well she sat with her doll doing it too. It was very cute.
That doll is just strange. A little TMI for a doll maybe. And I was a big breastfeeder.

DD breastfed her babies. I even have a pic of DS (maybe 2 at the time) holding a breast pump to his chest with his shirt lifted up. That being said, something about the doll/vest contraption is weird. I think it might be the pasties!

 

[EMom]

When DD was 4, we visited friends who were temporarily living in Norway. They won a "boy baby doll" as a door prize and gave it to DD, as they had no young children. Well, well, well...... Baby boy had VERY anatomically correct parts and if you filled him with water, he would urinate. But....and here's where it gets good.....You had to jiggle his bits and pieces to get the wee to start to flow. Just get a mental image of THAT.

Your little girl's hands on the boy dolls very realistic "parts," flicking them back and forth to make the doll wee. Truly, I did not want to encourage DD to mess with man parts. Before it was all said and done, my friend's older daughter's were calling their friends over and THEY were playing with it the most, falling over in fits of laughter. Between the fact that I did not want that thing coming home to Texas with me and the fact that it must have weighed 15-20 pounds and we still had a few more European countries to visit, I "accidentally" left the doll behind when I packed my suitcase. From what they tell me, he provided hours and hours of amusement.

BTW, the Norwegians claimed no responsibility for him. He was from some Eastern European country.

 

[Serena]

I'm not a big fan of giving girls dolls that pee or eat or anything like that. I think it's odd. But then, I'm not really a fan of dolls, period.

That's me too.
My girls liked art, cars, building things, they liked barbies but rarely played with them. Dolls weren't something they messed with.

 

[ckay87]

Eh, I'm not anywhere near "outraged" but it's icky to me. NO, I don't think breastfeeding is icky....I was a pro, in fact. It's the simulation of adult female body parts on a little girl that strikes me as icky. Seems kind of like if they would come up with a toy contraption that could simulate the birth .